Sunday, May 3, 2015

10 Friends Celebrate Barb's Birthday in Kalispell

My friend Barb Salmon is turning 40. So I sent her a text one morning and said we should go on an overnight girls trip to celebrate your 40th birthday. We invited 16 people and 10 of them ended up coming which is a miracle in and of itself.

We took two cars and headed south across the border. We shopped and we talked and we ate and we shopped and we talked. We had so much fun and we learned a lot about each other. 

We had cheesecake and stayed up talking till 2 o'clock in the morning to celebrate Barb's birthday.

#sleeping on satin takes away the wrinkles
#Red alert red alert
# Kaylynn how many pairs of shoes did you buy
#The dentist said,  you need a crown and I said, I know right
#Michelle has never been inside a Target store?
#don't wake up Barbie she is still sleeping
# I think I have a loneliness headache
#Are we worried about the cheesecake? Text Dixie sent me at 9 AM that I received at 4 PM






Carly's 7th Birthday

It is Carly's odd birthday year so she didn't get a friend party, but she made a list of eight families she wanted to come to have birthday cake. We narrowed it down to three families plus grandma and grandpa and Dixie. 

We had a fun visit with the Murray's, Matt & Josie Bevans family and the Sommerfeldts . The Dairy Queen ice cream cake was delicious and Carly loved all the attention.

For a long time Carly had asked for her violin for her birthday. I found one for a good price online and ordered it. She was very excited when she opened it!


Carly keeps our family very exciting!!! 

April








Backtracking: January to March

Jill kept the basketball tournament trail hot - 3 times to Edmonton and 1 tournament in Calgary.
We went to rodeos and basketball tournaments.  It was winter!











Thursday, April 23, 2015

Tithing

The time came to sell Cheno. He is a horse we bought from Randy Pitchford a few  years ago. He is a good horse but he wasn't working for Lucy and Carly for rodeo. As Traci Aipperspach said, "Cheno knows how to get fired from every job."


So we found a buyer - Tyler Bevans. Tyler is so happy with Cheno.

We sold Cheno for the same price we bought him for - $5500.  So we do pay tithing on that money? Is it an increase?

I suggested we did pay tithing and test this principle:
  • Malachi 3:10

    10 Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
The next day Austin decided we should pay tithing and gave me $500 cash to pay tithing.  So we took it to church and paid our tithing.

The next day we had a southern circuit rodeo (Monday was Family Day).  At the end of the rodeo, our family had earned $567 in prize money. That has never happened before.  We are lucky to break even with our entry fees.  The very next rodeo we had earned $165 in prize money.  We were definitely blessed that day for paying our tithing.

On another note, we sold Cheno so we could buy another horse for Lucy.  Austin saw a flyer for one he wanted to try from British Columbia. The  owners brought that horse for us to try that same day.  But during the rodeo, a horse named Happy ran the barrels.  Monica Wilson said to Austin, "You should buy that horse, It is for sale."  A family from Saskatchewan had brought it to the rodeo for another family to look at.  After a day of negotiating, the other family didn't want Happy and Austin bought her.  She is the perfect horse for Lucy!!!

Basketball, uh huh, basketball, oh yeah

Basketball is definitely one of the four seasons at our house.

Hanna was on the grade 8 team this year with Coach Erica Burt.

She rocked this year!

Hanna was the high-point shooter most games. I think her highest game was about 25. Her signature move is to steal the ball and go for a fast-break. The trick is if she can put up a soft lay-up or not.

Her team went had a fun weekend in Strathmore at a tournament. Her team was undefeated and won the tournament. They were the only 8th grade team - the rest were 9th grade.


Her team ended up 2nd place in the division and 2nd place in zones.
We loved watching her this year!















Sunday, February 1, 2015

Lucy turned 10!

Lucy had a few quality friends come over for her 10th birthday party.  It is fun to have a second house to have giggly girl parties in. The girls were fun. 

Skylar Sommerfeldt, Brooklyn Hardy, Taylor Heninger, Camree Schaffer, Skylie Holland, and Lucy and Carly

Hanna made a happy birthday message in the snow.


After our steak and twice baked potato dinner we open presents and had ice cream cake. 

Mom & Dad - swimsuit and ice cream maker
Hanna - headband she crocheted and a shirt
Carly - A stuffed animal and a puzzle
Grandma Carol - red sweatshirt
Grandma Nunn - jean pillow
Grandma Karma - doll clothes with Frozen on them
Dixie - two pairs of gloves and two hats

Lucy is a champ!!!!