Montana Friends, Continued ~

 After living in the bush for nearly a year now we've discovered what's called "Bush Time." This concept is an extremely hard thing for me to grasp, apply and be comfortable with. Bush time pretty much can be summed up in the word "late."

 For example, church will always start half an hour late. Dinners, birthday parties, games, church events, etc will all start late. We found out this week that there's an annual garage sale at the school this weekend. Apparently this event is the "only event that people will show up early for." More than the garage sale I'm just excited to know something is starting on time.  :)

Montana Friends, Continued ~

 "Daddy, if someone is mean to Nome I will tell them to stop and then they can be mean to me instead."

~ Ruthiebelle

 As usual, I was impressed by Brad's aim at hitting the bottle targets.

 I did a lot better with the rifle than with the handgun.

 "Dear Jesus, please help Grandma the lawnmower to be flexible and thankful for what she has."

~ Naomi Cheryl Fox

Coastal Village Visit ~

 Brad took a day trip to a coastal village last week.

 Do you see the dots in the above picture? Those are houses and that's the whole village. It's weird to see the village with miles upon miles of emptiness around it.

 Brad had to get out his winter gear...it's good to have a warm parka in case you crash in the middle of thousands of miles of emptiness. The girls had fun playing with Brad's parka when he got it out of storage.

 My handsome man!

My Love ~

Brad is leaving this afternoon for a coastal village. With the sun being out until late, they'll come home around midnight tonight. Please pray for safety and God to open up doors for connections there and His Gospel to be furthered. 

A Thankful Wife and Mommy ~

 Wow, I don't deserve these blessings! God is gracious. Thank you Jesus for blessing me with my handsome husband and my two beautiful daughters.

 During SSR (silent sustained reading) Brad and I heard Nome singing to the tune "Joy to the World." Her words were something like this, "We get a movie, on Saturday, we get a movie on Saturday! We get a movie, we get a movie, on Saturday, on Saturday, on Sat on Sat on Saturday."

Sidenote: The girls are allowed a movie once a week on Saturday...apparently this day has some importance to our youngest (now you know why we allow a movie only once a week).

 The Yukon is slowly thawing and we're excited for break-up to happen...these single digit days aren't helping though!

 I just finished writing a birthday card to a friend of ours who is turning 102 years old...that's a pretty amazing thing and we're blessed to know this woman.

Frozen Pipes in May? ~

 We've been waking up this week to single digits! It's even been snowing. Now that the roads are cleared I've been biking around the village...unfortunately I still have to use my winter gear. I can't wait to put that stuff away.   :)

 Below: Nome got her foot stuck in the woodpile and needed her Daddy to come rescue her.

 Even though it's May our pipes still froze and we had to thaw out the shower...be thankful in all things (a good reminder for me).   :)

 Brad and Martin attended a "break-up" meeting. With break-up (ie. the Yukon's ice breaking up) there are chances of flooding so the city talked about the flood plan for our village.

Welcome Back Birds ~

 Ruthie is still working through her reading lessons. My goal is to get them done (less than twenty days left) before our conference in June.

 A neighborhood girl came over last night and spent the afternoon playing with the girls. She stayed for dinner and ended up participating in our evening devotions. It was neat to see Brad share the Gospel with her during that time.

 Ruthie and Naomi's flowers are growing nicely.

 Welcome home swans and ducks! We're happy to see you're back again!

 A neighbor came over to ask Brad to go goose hunting with him and his buddies. Apparently they planned to snow-go six miles outside the village, across the Yukon, to hunt. Both Brad and I weren't too sure about crossing the Yukon this time of year. Thankfully he already had commitments that day...I wasn't thrilled thinking about him crossing the Yukon when a man upriver died last week from falling through the ice.