Church Camping Trip

It has been a tradition at the church to do this camp for many years, It was our first time to participate since we just joined this church January of this year.

There was so much singing, wonderful preaching, playing, and eating, it was so much fun and relaxing.
Iris enjoyed playing all kind of games, Bible quizzes, sword drills, volleyball, baseball, football and so many other silly gamesNellie was so occupied but in a very different way though, she just wanted to go and explore, collecting acorns and PICKING WILD FLOWERS was her favorite thing to do, she just loved walking with her friends and just being there!! she was so overwhelmed with all what she was seeing of God's beautiful nature that she forgot she was hungry until it was time to go to bed then she would ask for peanut butter and honey sandwich.
It happened that her birthday fell in the camping week, so she had a grand time celebrating it under the big gathering tent in the middle of the camp with all her friends and the church there, they all were so kind and made her feel very special.

There was such a sweet spirit of fellowship, kindness and help with every one there.

July 2011

July was a busy month, it started with having my brother's family from Denmark and my mother from San Diego Ca visiting here, while they were here we went to the Gold Field ghost town and had a blast especially going down the gold mine, then we went to the Salt River for tubing, then went to Canyon lake for Fish Fry dinner, and one early morning they all went hiking the Silly Mountain, they loved our pool and were in it every day Sara did some horse back riding with IrisGod allowed us to lead my 2 nieces 18 & 15 years old to the LORD sitting around our dinning table it was a blessing....this was the highlight of the visit. We became very close during those few days(first time we met they were 5 & 3 years old) that was eleven years ago, Iris and the girls really got along and had so much fun and laughter. On the 19th we celebrated Iris's 15th birthday, and on the 27th we celebrated David's birthday.

David's grandma went home to be with our LORD on the 25th at the age of 97, she was a very godly, virtues and very respected woman, she had a list of all her children, grand children, great grandchildren and their spouses in her Bible and she got up every morning at 5 am to read her Bible and pray for all of us, we all miss her greatly.

Church has been wonderful ....the preaching of God's word got me fired up again and made me want to win souls, and it was 4 souls that I was able to lead to the LORD during the month of July, we ended the month with a beautiful Sunday at church then had a church wide ball game and then dinner at Del Taco, we had great fruitful month.

Sara Trying to milk our one horned goat "Sweet Penny"
The girls were crazy about anything western.
They loved holding some of our kittens
There first time eating "Pho" and first time ever drinking Root beer"

Iris and one of our baby goats.

September Birthday

Nellie just turned 5, and when we asked her how she feels now that she is 5 she says"I feel good"or "I feel great" I thought that is so cute.
some of the things she wanted for her birthday were bird seeds so she can fill the bird feeders and watch the birds out the dinning area window, a milk goat because she want to milk her and drink the milk, frozen yogurt, and eat at Bashas ( a grocery store about 5 MN. from our house).
so she got pretty much everything she wanted.
Here she is with her goat Penny we just got her a couple of days before Nellie's birthday, Penny is in milk already so we get to milk her and drink it every day YUMMMMMM.
Penny is real sweet goat she was raised in a family that have 6 little children so she is extra tame, loves children, it is a blessing from God to find her.