Your beauty should

not come from outward

adornment such as braided

hair and the wearing

of gold jewelry and fine

clothes. Instead, it should be

that of your inner self,

the unfading beauty of a 

gentle and quiet spirit,

which is of great worth in Gods sight. 

For this is the way the holy women of the past who put their hope in God used  to make themselves beautiful. 

1 Peter

 

Birthdays!

Happy Birthday

Mom & 

Alyssa!

I love you Mom & Alyssa,

            Mikaela 

THE kites have their way

You see, this is what happens when kites have their way!

Lincoln's kite was not in the fight. Hey, I can rhyme any time...

Once we got them out of the sky I got the joy of 

un-tangling the kites=) (I ended up cutting the string)

Watching them try to get the   

kites out of the sky

was entertaining though.

She Did It !!!

Congradulations Alyssa on the completion of your formal education at the

 Yoder Academy of Excellence.

 You did it!!! 

 May you always remember that this is only the beginning of your education.

Through wisdom is a house built; and by understanding it is established: And by knowledge shall the chambers be filled with all precious and pleasant riches. Proverbs: 3 & 4

p.s. Congrats on making the Dean's List your 1st term at Kaplan.

The Preparations

Alyssa,

We are so incredible blessed to have you as our daughter.

Love,

Mom & Dad

The tragic loss

I am sorry to say that my Bernese mountain dog Sandy-Belle got hit by a car and died. I loved sandy. She was a wonderful dog and I miss her so much! She always made me laugh, wether she was digging something out of the garbage or walking thru the onion patch I planted she was too funny.    

I miss you sandy-Belle, you always made me happy.

You were so silly when you came to the door when it was raining and tried to get the door open last week! You were an awesome Christmas present, Thank you Dad and Mom.

Dad would have to try to sneak out of the house so he wouldn't get caught by you. It never worked though, you would always get him *smile*

I will always miss you sandy!

 Mikaela

Our dirt day

We had a family field trip this past week, literally, we were out in a field. Dad had some work to do at the job, so we thought we'd tag along.

Cameron helped Dad on the Bulldozer pulling the scraper behind it. He had a lot of fun with Dad.

Notice we both have something to shield our eyes with!

I think I remember praying for a nice sunny day the night before. Well, the sun was so bright you could see your shadow every where you went.

That would be awsome if we all could do our school work outside, when its warm that is, (the two of her knees were bright red from a sunburn).

Thankfully no one got de-hyghdrated!






This is what the job looks like. Dirt, dirt and more dirt.


Sometimes you get to see one of these.

Alyssa & I helped put silt fence in with two other guys.

This is what silt fence looks like up close.

We took the 4-whelers along with us to the job. Funny story, we girls couldn't get them in the truck on our own, so we took them out to the shop and hoisted them up on the crane=) You can probably see that Lincoln's facial expression is not the cutest, he had just cut his finger and was not very happy.