It's hunting season!

We have no success stories to report from our hunters today, but I thought I'd post this picture of a little hunter who is all excited about Daddy hunting.

Brandon has a deer hunting game that he plays on the computer and last night we told Jonathan how Daddy was going to go hunting for a real deer. He replied, "I like your hunting game, Dad."

He also came into the bedroom last night and said, "I gonna shoot a big buck" and then he posed like he was shooting a gun. He sure will be excited if Daddy gets to bring home a live deer!

Thanksgiving blessings

Thanksgiving is past, but my heart still rejoices in so many blessings the Lord has given. This year at Thanksgiving, I thanked the Lord the most for my 3 greatest blessings:

1. Salvation
2. A loving husband
3. 4 healthy and beautiful children

It made me even more thankful when I realized that there are an awful lot of people who do not have all 3 of these. Some have only two.

Thank you, Lord, for your blessings on me - not just for the 3 above, but for the 100's of blessings beside.

Special guests

We were privileged and delighted to have the Dickensons - missionary friends - stop by and visit us last week. We had been hoping to connnect with them and it worked out for them to come by our house on their way to their next deputation service.

We got to entertain them in just a small way like so many of you have entertained and taken care of us. I found it very fun taking care of missionaries!

It was so fun talking to them. For some reason, we have a lot in common. :-)

They treated us to a few songs that they sing in their services. Such lovely songs and beautiful voices!

Then we took the children to the nearby playground. We all had a blast!

This is both of our families together - except for one! Oops! Somebody's missing! I have no idea how that happened!!

This was their cute little guy. He would smile every time I called his name. He was playing on the steps and when I called for him, he came crawling after me with the cutest grin.

Whooooo's there?

The children happened to notice an owl sitting in our fireplace.

It was definitely an owl and he was sleeping.
Doug didn't know exactly what to do, so he called a neighbor friend, and he said he'd be right over. He confidently reached in, grabbed the owl, and pulled it out.

It was neat to see the owl close up and with its eyes open.