tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29007433447334864322012-01-30T14:30:27.755-06:00"The world is so full of a number of things; I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings." Robert Louis StevensonJason and Sadiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13456713111646299852noreply@blogger.comBlogger621100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2900743344733486432.post-22596542901563023112012-01-30T14:07:00.002-06:002012-01-30T14:30:27.769-06:00

5. NEW CHILDREN'S MINISTRIES6. INTERCESSIONfor a miracle baby and a brain tumor patient7. HURRY UP AND WAITwait for spring, wait on the garden, wait for chickens, wait for a church, wait for the fence, wait for buffs, wait and pray, pray and wait

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8. WEDDINGS9. REUNIONS WITH THE BEST FAMILIES IN THE WORLD10. THE BISON LEARNING CURVE

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Create a digital scrapbook

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Create a newsletter

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KIDS, KIDS EVERYWHEREGREEN BEANS AND TOMATO SAUCE IN THE FREEZEROUR LAUNCH PAD BY THE BACK DOORLAUNDRY WAITING...LAUNDRY WAITING....MY DESK WAITING....PEACHES AND PEARS WAITING....TABLE BY THE BACK DOORDISHES WAITING...I often read inspiring blogs full of luscious photos. Their authors are super creative and can craft, sew, garden, cook, decorate, organize, clean, raise kids, devotionalize,

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We started our school year with a trip along the Oregon Trail in Nebraska. Here we are at Ft. Kearney.We started with 9 in our wagon and ended with 8.I guess Auntie Lizzy "saw the elephant."No, we're not there yet.You never know what characters you'll meet on the way.Photo op at the "Getaway" Arch(read as such by my sometimes dyslexic reader) This is the display at O'Fallon's Bluff near

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The third day we climbed Courthouse and Jail Rocks in Bridgeport.These are the wagon ruts at Brule, NE on California Hill. You can follow them all the way until they disappear into a cornfield.Ash Hollow was a big disappointment because they are all shut down for budget cuts.There is a lovely, shady spot for camping and picnicking...if only it were allowed.But the pump still gives cold,

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My good friend and me...a sweet reunion, albeit too shortPoor Thing. She tried. I regret that I never took any pictures of her twin. ShouldaWouldaCoulda given the camera to someone else for the day!Sweet Reunion, right J?

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A Beautiful Day for a Wedding--The EllisesCutest Baby Award......Abigail KelleySpring at our HouseBirthdaysScience

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The Labor Day crew of laborersVisiting Aunt Liz and Great Grams in MTGirls' Night (I'm sorry, Sarah)Pulling TaffyThanksgiving in KC(My kids' heads were cut off at the bottom. I'd love to have a picture if anyone has one that included all children.)

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8th Birthday and Christmas decoratingGrams Trimble's Memorial ServiceStapleton Christmas-roasting marshmallows, not chestnutsDix Christmas-feel the loveNew Year's Day sledding party

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THEME 5: Sarah. She stuck with us through freezing corn, moving, teaching school, sickness and so much more. And she's engaged! Congratulations!THEME 6: School Days.THEME 7: Pools and Pets.THEMES 8 - 10: Unpublished Extended Family and Church Family names. There were many intercessions, weeping with those who wept. There were also many days of rejoicing.

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THEME 4: First RentalTHEME 3: Sovereign Grace Album Come Weary Saints

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THEME 2: Decision-Making. Every choice for something is also a choice against something. Disappointment, Waiting on the Lord, then Peace. (This is a view from our front porch.)THEME 1: Getting Rural

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A few weeks ago I wrote a stand-up comedy post about "Adult Pen Pals." Somehow by trying to enter it through iGoogle, the post disappeared. I was really bummed cuz it was really funny. But maybe it was deleted because it had a titch of meanness. So on a serious-er note, this has been another great time of year to look back and trace God's hand in our lives. A year ago I would never have

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1. MONDAY Even though Monday was the day that the Lord had made, it went poorly for me. I woke up on the wrong side of bed, had sore muscles (Sarah!:) and felt overwhelmed and behind and inadequate for any of my responsibilities. I don't know why; it was just bad. I cried a lot. I moped a little. I still managed an Ephesians 6:18 for a certain family who asked me to. I vented to Jason (

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What do May and December have in common? Lots of activities, concerts, plays, a full calendar, lots of presents, and this year, freezing, windy weather. I forgot my camera on AWANA Awards Night. I want to blog it because of the milestones. Jared graduated from Cubbies into Sparks. I remember when Aiden went to Sparks I was afraid for his going in there with all those big wild kids. Ah,

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This time the cashier didn't say anything about how many groceries we bought. But when we were finished, she had to replenish all her bags on the pegs.

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Wow, I'm so honored that you girls look at our blog more than once! I look at yours like, once every 3 months! So I felt compelled to update. We've spent most of 2010 discussing, praying, Farm or No Farm? Now or Later? Also, normal life business of family-raising. Cutting & burning wood, peeling old wallpaper, going to car wrecks, studying the Middle Ages & Reformation. We even started in

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He said that he's taken his motorbike far & wide to locate a working cell phone tower. He'll ride to a place on a mountain, but it doesn't work. They tell him, "Climb that tree over there." But he climbs it, and it doesn't work. Someone else says, "Whenever we stand on that stump it always works." But it doesn't. He renewed his satellite phone plan, but the company is running out of money,

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I love eating oatmeal this way for a change:Boil water and add salt. Stir in thick-cut oats and simmer uncovered until the water is mostly gone. Scoop the oatmeal into your bowl and add a dab of butter, a spoon of jelly, and your favorite toasted nuts. Stir them all together and enjoy a warm, comfortable breakfast.

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The grocery cashier says, "You must own a restaurant!" Then after thinking, "Or do you have a big family?"

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Are we tired of talking about the environment yet? I've been kicking this article around for weeks. I thought it might be redundant, since everybody's doing it. Then yesterday I kicked on the radio and there was Al Mohler, bringing it up again. It seemed like permission.I have watched in amazement the past few years as the "Going Green" movement has gained momentum and chugged through our

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This week we've been thankful for John the Revelator, for Aiden, for the Rocky Mountains, for the goodness of God, for apples, for our sewing machine, and for remote control cars. We watched the Hoboken Chicken Emergency, read Squanto part II, and brushed up on Psalm 100. "Over the River & through the woodNow Grandmother's cap I spy.Hurrah for the fun!Is the pudding done?Hurrah for the pumpkin

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Today I bought leeks, fennel and white wine to supplement the 20 cloves of garlic, fresh herbs, and frozen garden vegetables on hand to make this chicken soup. We have a 24-hour fever and upper respiratory going through the house; I'm sick of the germs. Yesterday I "Miss Haynied" all the light switches, door knobs and stair rails with hot vinegar water. I got this recipe from the Sonlighters

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This is the last daily saga. I didn't mention all the phone calls to experienced bison handlers or all the phone calls and personal visits to landowners. So far, 1 cow is still missing, last seen Thursday about sunset by yours truly. The other 3 are staying put. We had a normal church day today & painted the cutest fall trees in Wee Worship. They are for decorations for the church

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J takes 2 hours off work to find missing cow. No dice. Kids & I go to farmers market to buy . . . bison meat! 122 pounds of it! We take coffee to J and a friend, fill up with gas & come home. Lunch, naps, and out to Camp to decorate for next weekend's Pure Joy Retreat. Home at 6 p.m. supper, bed, prepare for Sunday.

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Borrowed platte maps. Studied, planned, took off for one last day of hunting.School. No lunch. J calls & found the "herd." Tried again for corrals but missed again. No lunch. Can we all come out & help with the "drive"? Tried to line up help to move them up the road 6 miles. Found 2 ranchers moving calves on the road. They agreed to help. I was to go ahead & block traffic, but the

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Got all dressed up for school pictures & began to walk out door when phone rang. Photographer sick. J took a vacation day. Drove out to retrieve 4-wheeler. Fixed 4-wheelers all afternoon. School. Sunny! Wrote missions article.

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School. Buff-hunting. borrowed 4-wheeler breaks down. Walk a few miles. Science day at the Children's Museum. AWANA. One visitor came along.

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24 hours Fire Dept. Very cold & rainy. Pick up coop order. Library day.

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School. Borrow 4-wheeler. Found 1 bison cow. Procure haybale. Tend to ranch wells. Land-owner says another land-owner said he saw 3 bison. Another prayer night.

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Sunday school, Wee Worship, more buff hunting, not finding. 4-wheeler breakdown. Reminiscing about college days & listening to old Greg Long music. Watch a movie.

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Winter wonderland. 12-15 inches of powdery snow. Binoculars. No buffs. Avalon/Selah concert 82 miles away. 2 teen babysitters until midnight.

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School. Cold & foggy. Putting the garden to bed; bringing in all salvageable vegetables. Buff hunting all day. 5:30 p.m. found. Attempted to corral. 6:30 p.m. great north wind and snow. 7p.m. Darkness. Ghost buffalo gone again.

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Winter weather again. Search for buffs all morning. No dice. Afternoon of errands in town. Coop order. Put kids to bed early; make chai tea; an evening of prayer about disappointments and direction. Killing freeze in the garden.

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School. Sunny. Cook meal for family with new baby. Check the buffs. They're gone. AWANA club. Look with 4-wheeler until dark. No buffs.

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Fire Dept. 24 hours. Clinic visit for chronic ear ache. School. Phone call to realtor. Our most favorite property got sold less than a week after we looked at it.

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Very cold & rainy. School. Women's Resource Center 11am - 4pm. Stoking the fire place. Dark very early.

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Fire Dept. Very cold, very rainy. Church day. Email from business opportunity. They changed their minds.

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A chilly but normal fall day. Baking. Cleaning. Ranch working. Check the bison.

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Make a Smilebox photobook

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Taliah is ready for the hotel at Arnie's airport: zebra ears, winnie the pooh, subway drink, monkey sleeping bag . . .Sarah's and Jason's new haircuts.Arnie in Nebraska, looking much healthier and ready to goBaby Esther and her goat friend in WisconsinThe Werners' twin goatsThe girls tried on Great-Grandma Viesselman's hats in the attic. Taliah caught her first fish. The Trimble and Werner boys

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Make a Smilebox scrapbook

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Life is So Full of a Number of Things: Facebook FriendsHere is a boundless article on Facebook that I liked:http://www.boundless.org/2005/articles/a0001990.cfm?utm_id=emailafriend&utm_campaign=1

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Allie & AnnieTaliah, Jared, AnnekeWe were watching the buffs to make sure they didn't wander on to the road. That was our "rodeo" day. We spent all day getting them rounded up and back to their own pasture. Jason, Jim and Jeremy gutting turkeys in the yard. Jared on the trampoline at Uncle John & Aunt Melanie'sSweet times with Uncle Arnie An amazing evening with Mr. & Mrs. Finnamore Taliah had

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It's just that I have a love affair with summer. We have had the most delicious nights with the sun setting late. I can smell the lilacs, the apple blossoms, the grape blossoms; it's a heady, swoony feeling. I want to go out and check the seedlings one more time, swing on the tire, dig a bucket of dandelions, reintroduce my bare feet to the soil, walk, run, go on a road trip, read a great

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Except right now the ibuprofin is working, so I'm upright for awhile. We had NO sickness in our family all winter until March & April, when winter began in earnest. It's been nothing but noses since then. Since the end of February, we've had a blizzard a week. So while spring was on our minds and the garden was in our hearts, we had to find something to do with all that cabin fever. Jason

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This here is a quote from our current "read aloud" (to use a little homeschooling lingo). We're just finishing Mountain Born, a book about the lifecycles of a European family of shepherds. Every time we get to the end of a book, Taliah gets tears in her eyes, because she doesn't want the story to end. Speaking of literature, we were thinking of Storybook Bears We LoveThe Berenstain BearsWinnie

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Calling outside, and I just spent thirty-eight minutes trying to update this blog and get pictures from the camera and change the background and write about spring. But now it's been 39 minutes and only one of the list accomplished, and minutes during the twins' naptime are precious . . . . Perhaps next week I'll be able to write about spring. Hang in there, dear readers.

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No time to write this week, but I'll just say that Jared said, "Mom, you can wrap up a present for me. You can wrap up 'de-odor.' Aiden has de-odor, and then all the boys could have de-odor. " Ask and you shall receive! :)He also has a love/hate relationship with both swords and stuffed animals. He loves to carry them around all day, but at night they seem scarey to him. He has scarey

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Aiden got to "roast cookies." (Huh?)Aiden's goldfish was dying in the fishbowl, but he loves his new home.Anneke (sorry; I'm still learning how do pictures)Annie, Allie in a coop box Coop order came in; nothing like raw rolled oats!Jared "reads" to the twins during school time.Look-alikes (Allie & Taliah) Valentine's Day Tea with friends and Great-Grandma Bennett's tea dishes Another batch of

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. . . with blogs, of course! What's to love? A blog is like a scrapbook and a journal and a letter and a soapbox all in one! All 4 happen to have been some of my favorite things my whole life. Thanks to blogger, we get to be creative and spill our guts and preach and share pictures with faraway peeps. It's like writing our own little magazine. What's to hate? Well, that was the previous

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Facebook friends aren't really friends! Or are they . . . ? This is a rant I've been building for a long time. Blogs got me started, because I didn't understand why people would rather go look at virtual "pages" about each other than write each other real personal letters in handwriting. Or give each other a phone call and talk with their real voices. Or even . . . "go visiting" or have a

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Annie and Allie Our neighbors brought the 4-wheeler and we brought the sled.Taliah, Jared (where are you?), Aiden

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Anneke has the potty-training woes.P.S. They're making progress! Here is the Johnson Family Christmas dinner party sans Arnie. The TWO two-year-olds on their birthday in Hot Springs, SD. We went up for Joe Charles's funeral. It was a special time of remembering his life. Then we went out for supper at the chinese restaurant and stayed overnight in a motel. AIDEN also turned 8 that day,

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Just a few housekeeping things to document this time. First, Christmas. We are official Christmas celebrators and decorators and present givers in this family. We are not extravagant in any of those categories (because we're tightwads) but hopefully we're extravagant worshippers of our amazing God Who made heaven and earth and was born through a young woman's birth canal. One one of our

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We have started potty training the twins. They haven't noticed yet. The other day (0 degrees F) when I was rushing madly between the bathroom, the fireplace, the laundry room, the rag bag, the kitchen, the fireplace, the homeschool table, the bathroom, the laundry room . . . a thought came to me that it was like being on a new level of a video game. I'm not a gamer, but I know there are

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It's been nearly a month since this new baby was born. Sorry for the neglect, sweetie. I'm still not sure how I'd like to use this forum; thus, the stalling. Plus, most people just want to see pictures, not read my rants, and our dial up internet won't accomodate uploading or downloading anything!Events of note have been amazing family times. Isn't that what's so special about this time of

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OOOH. That wasn't so bad, I guess, giving birth to our first website. For now, I'll begin with the title. "Life is so full" is taken from our belovedRobert Louis Stevenson, whose poetry should be required read-alouds forall English-speaking children. As for the purpose/direction of this blog: I've journaled since Kindergarten;I enjoy doing it. Our family keeps asking us to write a blog. I'm

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