Christmas wrappings

I guess we can officially call our Christmas over now that the kids had a chance to spend all of their Christmas money.  We spent most of ours too in a trip to Grand Forks yesterday.  The kids went together to get a PS2 (that’s Playstation2 for those grandparents out there who are now saying, [...]

Christmas Time is Here

It was never really in doubt that we would have snow on the ground on Christmas day, but now the forecast shows that we will probably have some flurries falling today and tomorrow, so it will be a white Christmas on that count as well. I for one am thrilled. The kids are having fun [...]

Doing things I never thought I would do

I don’t know if it is the past year’s experience of going back to college to finish my degree online or the other changes in life that have moved me from a youth pastor to a senior pastor, but for some reason I find that I like to write more now than I ever did. [...]

Playing in the Snow

Sometimes any excuse to act like a kid will do.  But the chance to play in a foot of snow is one of the best.This is Amelia with the kids This is Jeff in case you were wonderingThis is one of the snow angels that the kids made.After my recent studies in college classes, I found myselfwondering if they actually look like this at all.

Snow is here

Well, we have had a couple of small snow falls.  Today marks our first snow storm.  At least the first “real” snow storm.  There are advisories and a bunch of snow.  I just measured the snow in the backyard at 11″.  We have drifts next to the house that are around 23″ and I haven’t [...]