More Family and Friends.

Monday morning rolled around and more visitors arrived. The Kinne family (or most of them) came up for a day of fun and frolic.

Immediately after our lunch the boys raced out back to explore and us "ladies" followed in a more leisurely fashion.

Hannah found a icy spot under the snow and cleared it off for her very own ice rink;)

After a few rides on the tire swing, always a necessary part of a trip to the Sauve's house, we packed up into our vehicles and headed out to Mr. Reiches sled run. (which I informed you of in a earlier post)

We were dismayed to find upon our arrival that the snow was still a bit sticky from the recent warm up, and the sledding was not at its' peak, so some of us started by walking around the trail that Mr. Reiche has blazed around his property.

Despite the slight slushiness of the snow, some of the younger, more persevering ones continued to travel down the slope as far as they could.


The more traffic that went down the run, packing down the snow and solidifying the ice, the better the hill became, and soon everyone was lined up waiting for a turn.

Sam had brought his new snowboard along and did amazingly well for his first time, almost always making it all the way down the second hill.


Though the snowboard was his preferred means of transportation, Faith did persuade him to try going backwards down the hill on the "silver streak" with her.


Josiah and Noah tried racing, but they somehow ended up crossing paths and Noah met up with his "friends", the tires, that were piled up against Mr. Reiche's garage, (Noah met with those tires quite a few times during the afternoon;) while Josiah went off track in the other direction and ended up between two trees.

We had a blast that afternoon and were very glad that some of the Kinnes were able to make it up to play in the snow with us.

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The next morning found us all very busy preparing for our Thanksgiving meal take 2. Josh having missed thanksgiving dinner with our family since he was at boot camp, requested to have one while he was home. So Mom and I got up and stuck him (the turkey not Josh;) in the oven.

Faith, the expert pie maker set to work as well.

We were delighted when we learned that Eldita's parents who had arrived from Mexico the night before, were going to be coming as well. One of the first things done when they had all arrived was to go down our newly finished snow slide!

Levi was the first one down.

Go Aunt Carmen!!!!!

The boys even got Eldita, their mom, to go down.
Unfortunately I did not get any pictures of the rest of the evening, which was absolutely wonderful. Dad was able to have a great conversation with Enoch, Eldita's father who is a pastor, about his work in Mexico, through Al who acted as interpreter. Then we had a singing time, some of us sang in English and some in Spanish, it was marvelous. We were so grateful for the fellowship we were able to have with believers even in another language.

~Chs