Last weekend I had the opportunity to go to a conference in the mountains of Pennsylvania. It was a wonderful weekend with friends, making new friends and being really encouraged…all in all a very blessed time! One evening after supper, we had some free time before the last session for the day and decided to […]

…with a campfire It’s been down in the single digits…even below freezing lately.  Then the Sunday before last it ‘warmed up’.  The sun was shining, and we thought the snow  would be perfect for snowman making.  Our plan was for everybody go out and build our own family out of snowmen. That plan was quickly […]

  Hello everybody! We meant to do this post a long time ago, but sorting through the hundreds (maybe thousands) of pictures that we took while we were in Florida this past October seemed like such a daunting task :D  Thanks to Anna’s help of getting most of them uploaded onto Flickr for me, we […]

  Sometime last week the pump died on our clothes washer.  We do three to four loads a day so this was not a good thing. Not at all.  We made do and tried to conserve on towels while we waited on the new pump to come. We were able to make it two days […]

  Quote of the Week “Worry is looking to our own resources and feasting on them.  Prayer is looking to God’s resources and feasting on them.”  Stuart Greaves The Bookshelf     Safely Home is a fictional story based on true stories of the persecuted church.  One thing we really liked is the eternal perspective […]

  Quote of the Week   “There is a power in delight that releases everything in your path. You can completely debilitate the enemy by having a sense of wonder because he can’t intimidate you, he can’t make you fearful, and you affect everything he’s doing just by being there. Sometimes you don’t even have […]

  Quote of the Week   Unbelief is safe because it takes no risks and almost always gets what it expects. [Faith] grabs hold of an invisible reality and won’t let go. I may not always feel that I have great faith.  But I can always obey, laying my hands on someone and praying.  It […]

YAY! Our room is finally done! Daddy was able to remodel it this year. *happy dance* So…here comes all 2,300 and 5 pictures..ok, not THAT many These are the pictures before it got tore out…mold, torn wall paper, no insulation, it wasn’t much fun to live in.  A few winters ago when it was really […]

  Autumn Sunrise Over the Barnyard by Anna Quote of the Week    My Precious Gem in a Crown, Beloved, when you see a garden, do you see the heat, the storms and the weeds of summer as a punishment for inadequate growth from the plant? Why then do you believe the refining in your […]

  Yay!  It’s canning time again ;)  The season of tired feet, stained fingers, sticky floors and oh so yummy food filling up the empty shelves in our basement again!  Every year when the ‘firstfruits’ of the garden come on (which is usually the green beans), we groan because we know that it’s that time […]