Thursday, December 13, 2007


Two of my beloved Newsboys. This is how close I was at the concert in Jamestown during October. Totally awesome! I bought the camo hat (yes, I know it should be called a cover) with Newsboys written on it. I don't really have any clothes to match it, but it's so cool anyway. I hung the concert poster and tickets in my closet. It was just too dark-style poster to hang in the kitchen. Maybe next concert will be brighter. While there, NewWorldSon opened for them and they are impressive. I ordered the CD, which is supposed to come out in February.


Sarah's 9th birthday was a medieval, knights and princesses theme.


Caleb and Mark (Kunta) with many ducks.

*Christmas Goose*
Caleb is quite the avid
fisherman and hunter.
Walleye, Perch, Crappie from
the waters. Ducks & Geese
from the sky. He has found a
true friend who hunts and
fishes with him, Mark
Kroontje... our local State’s
Attorney!


We have even seen 8 foster kids go
through our home this last year. Two of
which we still stay in touch with.

*All Things Artsy and Girly*
Sarah is our dancer,
singer, painter, drawer,
reader and butterfly.
Her friends, Pollys,
Barbies, books and
craft supplies keep
her busy.

*STILL AT HOME IN HERREID*
It has been three years
that we have been blessed by the
people of Herreid, South
Dakota. God
has blessed this
church with a
tremendous
number of
people who
love the Lord
and want to
see His will
fulfilled in
their lives and in the life of the
church.
Caleb and Sarah are still
being homeschooled and
Marcia has continued to be able
to stay home
and work with
the kids and
see to it that
her husband is
well provided
for.
We have
also recently
added a new
member, Duncan... a black lab.

*Created for Works*
For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith - and this not
from yourselves, it is the gift of God - not by works, so that no one
can boast. For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus
to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

T H E WO R D B E C A M E F L E S H A N D DW E L T A M O N G U S . J O H N 1 : 1 4

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Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Our 2007 family photo. 

 Yup, all four of us got a significant haircut this Fall.  In order of length:  I lost 6", Sarah 4", Caleb 3", and Steven 1 1/2 " due to the one  hairdresser moving her shop that month and the other hairdresser in town working at her part-time job at the gas station that day.  Sometimes options are slim in a small town.  So Marcia and her clippers started on Steve's hair.  We got one side buzzed and the clippers absolutely quit.  Caleb kind of favored the half-mohawk look on his Dad.  In light of that, we found an out-of-town stylist and were about to make a 20 minute drive for a 10 minute cut when someone volunteered to lend us their clippers.  The day was saved!

Funny story behind the photo:  Caleb wore a yellow t-shirt and khakis to church and then went home to change right afterwards for the picture.  I guess a suit was too dressed up for Sunday School according to him.  

In case you can't quite tell, Caleb is definitely taller than me.  That was my Mother's Day present this year.  Now I call him Shorty.  He just smiles proudly.

Sarah almost always has that sparkly glow about her.  She loves her new glasses.  We've only lost them twice so far.  

Steven and I have both grown a lot this year physically.  That surprised each of us.  We're not fatter than we've ever been before; we're just at our "personal best."

A friend snapped this shot for us and then we modified it on a Mac computer.  That means you are free to print or copy it as you see fit.

This was 2004, albeit in a slightly different location.  Isn't it amazing how much the kids have grown in three years?!  I was even wearing high heel boots in the 2007 picture.