Winter Wonderland!

I took a picture of the sunrise yesterday am. This is approximately the same shot this am.

Last night it snowed. I wanted to get a couple pictures of the trees before the wind came along.

Some things are quite amazing about the plains...for example, a Colorado sunrise. It was breathtaking this morning!

Although this may not seem like such a great picture, there is something amazing about driving down a highway and being able to see for miles in front and behind you. At night the stars are SO bright and beautiful and sometimes in this area of Colorado/Kansas you can see the lights of towns as far away as 40 - 50 miles.

...and you just never know what you might see. Someone very patriotic took a lot of time to paint this flag on this barn.

Thanksgiving with Jesse's family

Jesse with his mom.

Jesse's sister Etta, husband Steve and 3 children.

Simon, Rachel and Skip...our neice and nephews.

A wild game of dominoes.

Getting caught up!

This is the first day in a LONG time that we have time to get caught up on our correspondance and our blog. We have not been all that great at taking pictures but we did post some this am.
At the present, we are in Colorado with Jesse's family and at his home church. The last two days have been spent splitting logs and getting firewood ready for winter for Jesse's mom.
We want to wish all our American friends a Happy Thanksgiving! We have been invited to more Thanksgiving meals than we care to think about but will enjoy the day with family.
Thanks to all who have been praying for good weather and all for us...would you believe it is about 70 out there today? I was burning garbage, etc in short sleeves this am and enjoying the beautiful sunny AM. Snow is in the forecast so we will see. All for now and we hope to be on here before too long!

It was fun to be able to help load over 800 shoe boxes for Operation Christmas Child here in Colorado. The church that Jess's family goes to only has about 30/40 people attending but they got together 118 boxes. How cool is that?




It was a very special surprise to have Sharla and Shawna join us for a few days at our home church in Montana. We loved having Chiara there as well. She loved her snuggle times with Opa.


Little girl feeling like a big girl in a big bed!


Our faithful pastor, who has been at our church for many years.


We got to visit several friends in Manitoba, but I was not all that great at taking pictures. Below are Lu Reimer's four kids hanging in the door frame and then she got them to sit still long enough to have a more serious picture.





Daryl and Cindy Kroeker with Gaven and Abby.


Gaven dressed up for Cadets. I think he looks pretty sharp!