November and more

I may have mentioned that I really do not like the new way that blogger is set up.  They put all pictures backwards, but here we go.  The girls and families came to visit the last week in November.  It was fun to see, as Cora says, 'all Jane's new tricks',  We had fun hooding, hanging out, decorating for Christmas and as usual it went tooast.  We carried on the tradition of lifting someone up to put the star on.  This year we did Jane, with a bit of help from Cora :) 

Leah had wanted to go see Wicked and we heard Earl's was closing.  She was going to make a girls night of it but Cora couldn't make it down and boys wanted to come so we all went. Always enjoy being with my kids.  Adult kids are so fun.  I truly love every stage I get to go through.  I always think I'm in my favorite, then life will change and I love that one just as much.  The Giving Machine was in the mall.  We went there as well.  I had Dave chose what we were giving this year, but I still picked fresh water.  With Blake in Africa I have become very aware of water and how blessed we are.  Movie was good, Earl's was delicious, and company was the best. 

Got of picture of Blake teaching at zone conference.  He loves being a zone leader and going to MLC.  Whenever he does get released as ZL, he will be sad as he has done that almost his whole mission and has had some really neat experiences. Blake is training again, which was his hope.  He loves training.  With his old companion he had Elder Ojediran come and do comp study with them.  Elder Ojediran is in the West Africa area presidency.  He is from Nigeria as was Blake's companion.  They got a call the night before and said since he was there for a mission tour he was going to join them in the morning.  It was kinda neat.

It snowed so much a few weeks ago.  As I was gearing up to go shovel our little walk, I asked Dave when were were on to shovel the church.  I didn't want to be surprised last minute and wanted all our turns on the calendar.  It was a good thing I asked cause we were on that day.  It was thick and heavy.  We went 3 times to the church.  Many hours.  This year the snow blower was fixed which made it easier, thank goodness, but still so much work.  And it hasn't snowed since. :/

 Dave has been worried that the barn was going to blow over for a few years now.  So a couple weeks ago he did some bracing on it and got the important stuff out in case it did go.  One of the things we pulled out was this old tractor.  He wants to get it running so it is useable on the farm.  It is in pretty good condition considering it has sat for like 40 years. 

We got the cows moved back to the home quarter.  It was a lot more fun this year as we finally had our own quads.  We could zoom around and be helpful instead of on foot. I did miss the exercise, but it was much better.

I guess those are some of the highlights since I waited to long to post and I can't remember everything that happened over the last 2 months.  My poor posterity, I am slacking.