Tuesday, December 31, 2013. A few highlights from the year that never made it up. As it is the first day of advent, it is time for our advent guest to make his appearance. Allow me to introduce you to our advent buzzard. We have had our buzzard for several years now.

Praise God for the opportunity to travel to the Alaska State Young Life Conference this last weekend! It was so encouraging and motivating. Where to start? First, a big loud shout out to the many amazing people that watched our kiddos while we were gone! That is EIGHT people who teamed up to love our kids and love them well. To take the kids with us to Chevak last month. I wondered for about 10 minutes. Duh, GO! The sam.

Paige received this parcel at the Penland Post Office. Pretty! And decorated for the season! Plenty of postage pressed permanently in position for the phlight. I suggest that you check out the PO next your in the neighborhood. Acorns quivered quietly on their quest to reach the midwest.

Wednesday, August 7, 2013. Lucas crawled yesterday on all fours! He has been wiping up the dog hair on our floors with his belly doing his stealthy army crawl but yesterday he took four steps on his knees twice! David and he were playing in the grassy front lawn and he did it! I mean really Shelley. Tuesday, July 30, 2013. Tuesday, July 9, 2013. Saturday, July 6, 2013. What does that mean? .

Yesterday Was Dramatic But Today Is Okay. Friday, August 30, 2013. It is an area that is very rich in history and has a large standing Hispanic population. Although Argentine sounds like it gets its name from a S American country it actually comes from its silver refining days with the Latin root of Silver being Argos. Basically life is good, but I do miss the DR.