It was a Good Year!

The last day of 2007. It's hard to believe that another year has come to a close and a new year is about to begin. Bob and I have had a wonderful year and have enjoyed traveling, visiting friends and family, and having friends and family come to visit us.

In February Bob and I went to Germany.


Several feet of snow welcomed us on our return home from Germany.


In April Rachael and Derrick adopted a little girl from Russia, Katya.
She is a precious little girl and we love her very much.
She is number sixteen in our increasing grandchildren count.



In May, Natalie and Adam graduated from Andrews University.

In June, Natalie and Adam were married. The wedding was beautiful.

The reception was held at the Blue Dress Barn and was perfect in every way.

Lola has been a part of our family for two years.

She loves being a farm dog.

Punkin Doodles has been with us for nine and a half years.

We got her when she was six weeks old and she has adapted

well to all of her many living environments.

She also enjoys living on the farm and keeping

all critters off her property.

On father's day, Punkin was hit by a car and had to spend

two weeks in the hospital. She has fully recovered and

back to chasing rabbits, raccoons, possums, and skunks.

In July we went backpacking with Bob's two sons

and their families in the Russian Wilderness (California).

Only we let two mules and one horse do the packing.

We just did the walking!

We also enjoyed witnessing the baptism of our oldest grandchild.

While we were in California, we enjoyed visiting Bob's sister, Estelle and her husband Roy, and were excited to find out that Fred and Rita (Bob's brother and sister-in-law) and Darlene and Art (Bob's sister and brother-in-law) were coming for the weekend also. Pictured are Bob's siblings. One sister wasn't able to come for the weekend.

We had a very productive garden this year. We froze over a hundred quarts of corn and at least a hundred quarts of green beans. We canned tomatoes too! We also went and picked grapes and made grape juice for the first time. Also for the first time, Bob tapped our maple trees and after the sap was processed we had 13 gallons of pure maple syrup.

Madeline came several times during the summer to help. She enjoyed getting to pick a pumpkin from grandpa's pumpkin patch.

We were very busy working with the four churches in our district, especially the Roosevelt Church. In November we finished an evangelistic series resulting in eight baptisms and ten more preparing for baptism. Leading up to the meetings we were busy helping with cooking schools, women's Bible study and craft nights, and VBS.

In December, friends from California came to visit.


On December 7, Todd and Lori blessed us with our seventeenth grandchild, Anthony.

Rachael and Derrick and their children came for Christmas!

Ryan and Lisa and their family came for Christmas!

Shannon and Andy and Madeline came for Christmas!
Lori and Todd and Anthony came for Christmas!

We Thank God for the many blessings we were given in 2007.

May God bless each one throughout the New Year!!!