LONG TIME!!

hello everyone!
It has been a very long time since I have been on here,alot has happened!
We had a wonderful holiday season,Thanksgiving brought alot of my family home,my sister,brother and 2 nephews along with each of my kids having a guest. Carrie brought home Dominic,he came with her last year and it didnt turn out too good,so we teased him this year about that. Christmas was good,this year for the first time we had a guest,Carrie again had Dominic here,we enjoyed having him here very much,we are starting to believe she must like him or something!!!
THEN last sunday Dominic had a snow sledding accident,he was careflighted to Saginaw which is 2 hours from gaylord where he and Carrie both live,a very close friend of hers knowingly grandpa Musgrave took carrie to the hospital where she has been with Dominic's parents ever since. He had surgery sunday night and fixed a crushed vertebra and took out bone fragment out of his spine. He is doing much better but still cant feel much and is in alot of pain.Carrie said he sat up today but it was very painful but it is improvement!
We are asking for prayer fpor him as he begins this journey,the dr is not sure if he will walk or not,we are asking God to make that happen.Please remember carrie too as she goes back to work and will have to travel 3 hours to see him I will try to update again real soon.

beautiful weather

well I love fall and this year the weather has been great,cool mornings but gets very nice during the day,harvest is progressing beans are done and corn is coming slow,because of the high wind from the hrricane we have alot of down corn,Chris is going around it some and hopefully we will have another tool to use or have someone harvest it for us,the yield is about 1/2 of the normal BUT we are very thankful for it,as dry as it was this summer things coiuld have been ALOT worse,as always God is good!!Fall also means craft shows!! We went to the really big one in findley last weekend it was very good! We have several we go to each year,it is always very fun time! Today we went to Homer and Roslyn Stutsman 50th anniversary party,they had a very nice party,even Kevin made it home from Arkansas,that made it very special for them!~
Wel;l I hope you are having a very nice fall,God id good isnt he?

harvest!

hi! well harvest is underway,Chris has combined 3 fieldsof soybeans and the yield is pretty low,but with the drought we have had this summer this was expected. It is always neat to see how God works,he is in charge of the crops and we just have to trust Him! Our oldest daughter, Cathy , had a birthday this week,seems like only yesterday she was born! She is doing great teaching in tennessee and we love her and miss her very much! My garden isnt producing much hopefully we will still get a few tomatoes and a few potatoes yet. We have missions conference this week,this is my favorite conference of the year,I soo enjoy getting to know new and renew aquaintances with our some of the missionaries we support. Bro Phil Schipper preaches for us and I love to hear him preach,I am looking forward to his wife and family being with him since they are now traveling togather in a mobile home. We always keep a family and this year we are keeping a family of five,it is always fun to get to know them! Well I hope you have a blessed week,fall is upon us,I enjoy the cool mornings!!

UPDATE

greetings! Last sunday our founding pastor ,Ron Boldman visited our church,it was a very nice surprise for everyone! Pastor Ewing was glad to meet him and the next day they got togather for lunch.It sounded like it was a nice time. We are being to work on a church anniversary celebration,if you or anyone you know used top attend here we would like to have names and addresses if possible,we are compiling a list to send invitations to we wouild like to invite everyone who used to be a member here. I went up to the ladies meeting in Gaylord this weekend,I took Carrie a trunk full of things a few small tables and just stuff she needed,we stayed with her ,she has a very cute little apartment,she loves it! We heard Mrs Cathy Berry and Mrs Loretta Walker and of course pastor and Mrs Jenkins [the pastor and his wife] I was very blessed we heard alot of good stuff! Melissa our pastor's wife got to play their version of the price is right,she enjoyed it alot! We are getting ready for missions conf a week from Wednesday.It's my favorite conference of the year! We are keeping a family going to mexico for the week. Well I hope you have a great week! Keep Christ First!

catching up!

Greetings! Well in my last post I told you about Trina who was dying of cancer,well 2 weeks ago today she went home to be with the Lord,please continue to pray for husband and family.
We left after her funeral to go to Gaylord Mi to take Carrie some furniture and to help her move her stuff to her new apartment,it is very nice and she is doing well! While we were there we also got to spend alittle time with Domanic and his parents,we ate supper with them after we got there and then Domanic helped move carries stuff! We met him for breakfast on saturday morning and then contunued to get Carrie settled in we left about 6 pm to come home.
With our dry weather this summer the corn is drying up fast,Chris is getting busy filling silo and fixing the chopper! Hopefully they will get alot of that done this week. On Friday and saturday the men are having a special leadership meeting at church.
Yesterday Chris brought home a new 2008 chevy Silverado truck! if you know us very well you can probably guess the color.....
My garden ios starting to produce beans,we ot it out VERY late soo we are reaping late! It is nice to get some beans the last 2 years havent been good for our garden.
Well hope all is well with you,i'm soo glad I serve a great God! till later...

Great summer!

Well it's been a long time since i have written on here,i have tried several times to put on pictures and i just cant seem to make it work. i am NOT computer savvy!
We started the summer with so much rain that we had trouble getting the crops in, all the corn we planted looks good now but for awhile it looked pretty bad,they planted then replanted and sometimes replanted again so the fields look alittle funny.
The whole family took a vacation to South Dakota,we had a really nice and memorable time,I was really impressed with the Badlands and Mount Rushmore was really neat! We took a tour which was nice,we could see all the important things so we didn't miss anything! We visited a town called Deadwood and saw a gunfight in the street and allot old cars and things of famous people including the Herbie car! We also saw the graves of a few famous gunfighters of the old west. What we didnt know is that town is a gambling town ! We also got to see the Nathan and Julie martin,they live in yankton so we stopped and took them out for supper. All in all it was fun trip,alot of fun memories!!
We had the privilege of having Sam Knickerbocker spend some time with us,he is the son of Pete and Isabelle our friends and missionaries to France.
we soo enjoyed having him here a few times while he was working in Lima as a intern at a church.
We have had the girls home a few times each and that has been a blessing! Both are doing very well,Cathy teaching and Carrie as school secretary,I miss them both but i am excited that they are both serving the Lord!
On a sad note our friend and neighbor Trina Gast is suffering in the last stages of cancer and is in alot of pain,please pray for her and her family as they trust the lord to know what's best for them at this time.
Craig begins classes next monday in Lima at UNOH it is a technical school ,he will be studing Ag mechanics,he is excited to get started.
Hope the rest of your summer is great!! love to hear from you.

Busy times!

Greetings!
I'm sorry it's been soo long since i posted,alot has happened around here!
I went back to the Dr.three weeks ago and found out i had somehow pulled one of my anchors partly out of my bone,I had to put my boot back on ,since that time my anchor is once again back in my bone,praise the lord and i am going to be out of my boot by the end of this week!
As you know Chris is very busy this time of year,especially this year with all the rain we have been behind,they got everything planted and then had to do some replanting.I think we are still needing to replant some beans.We were behind in getting the hay made, so last week it was a fight to get the hay made before the rain,then the hay was drier than it needs to be for the silo so they ended up making it dry and blowing it in the barn. This week Chris is trying to get the nitrogen on the corn before it gets too tall to get in the field,so far so good,he has to wait on a applicator soo it is time to do other stuff like fix the truck ect!! Because of the weather and my inability to work in the garden Chris finally planted beans over the weekend but doesn't have anything else done.With my boot i cant do any of that.we aren't planting as big as normal but its still bigger than I want! Besides all that we are having bible School this week,its a blessing Chris didn't have anything to do there this year since he is busy at the farm.
We plan to take a vacation with the kids next week,hopefully we will leave Monday for MT Rushmore,I guess we will all drive since it is a LONG drive! Please pray for safety for us on the roads!
One of Cathy's old roommates and good friend Mary Qualls is getting married this weekend,Craig is going down to Tenn for that,then coming back with Cathy on Sunday,Carrie will also come home sunday afternoon.
Last Monday i had a milestone birthday,Yes 50!! god has been good to me and i am thankful for all the things that he has brought my way! Someone gave me a card that said i hope you have 50 more...well i am not so sure that is what i want,I cant imagine living to 100!!
thanks for reading my post,I trust all is well with you and your families.I sure enjoy reading the blogs that i have address's for it's fun to see what is going on in your world!