Here we all at the end of another year...2009. What a year we have had. God has blessed us and continues to meet all our needs. I will fill you in on a few highlights...
January brought good snow and good times. Erik enjoyed his snowmobile a lot this past winter and kept busy riding those drifts.
February our semi-pup was rolled, it was a big mess, one that could be seen for months on East Michigan Avenue, but thankfully no one was hurt. Doug and I spent seven days in Palm Springs, CA. Always a good time.
March had ski trips for the kids with the Youth Group, Horse Bowl Competitions, 4-H beef weigh-in, and it seems like meetings, every other day.
April started with drivers ed., auctions, meetings, birthday's, and the start to planting season.
May we continued with planting, planted our raised beds, meetings as usual, and the start of horse shows.
June continued with horse shows nearly every weekend, birthday's, open houses for friends, V.B.S. (b.t.w...I love cotton candy!), and the softball season began (this would be Doug and I on a non-competative church league...if there is such a thing).
July came in with a bang, Erik cruised downtown in his 1980 F250 (which is for sale), church camp for the kids, Katie on her first mission trip, and finally a few days at South Haven.
August...FAIR...need I say more. Actually I should. It was a productive week, with its ups and downs (hitting the dirt after being thrown from the horse down, being a bobble head in a combine down, having a horse try to colic all week down) the ups were good too though. Winning showmanship and making it in the show of champions, placing well with the steers in mkt. class, winning 3rd overall in the combine demo derby (the mom!). Additionally we had Golf Outings, weddings, and picnics this month.
September we had visits from family, put up veggies for winter, and started the harvest season.
October brought more birthday's, bonfires, American Quarter Horse Congress with horse bowl, train trip to Mayo clinic, and the harvest continued.
November saw long days of harvest that seemed like it may never end, fundraiser dances, productions at local community theatre, stitches (Doug's head...of course this happen 95' up) Thanksgiving with South Carolina friends, shopping with friends, and our first real Christmas tree in a long time.
December had a Christmas Open House (lots of fun...but a lot of work!), the whole family was in our Church's Christmas Production, welcomed new friends in for gatherings, butchered our beef for the year, finished harvest, celebrated one more birthday and had some down days to reflect on the year.
I have not been very good as of late in updating my blog. I hope to try to update at least 2x a week during 2010. I guess that would be resolution, right?
Wishing you all hope, peace and prosperity and good health in the New Year.
God Bless You All!
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