Interesting Conversation

Here is a conversation between my sister and my mom.

Mom: We could have gone to the Sletten's farm and had a biology experiment instead of going on this field trip.
Jessica: Whats biology?
Mom: It's when you butcher an animal.
Jessica: I don't like it when animals die.
Mom: But thats how the Slettens get their meat.
Jessica: Why don't they buy their food from the store?

After that we all had a good laugh. What I would consider that is moving from the city to the country.

The Sletten's Farm

Last week the youth in our church went to the Sletten's Farm. About two miles away from their farm were some snow drifts with about ten to twenty-five feet drop-offs. On some of the drifts there were five feet overhangs. What we would do is run to the edge jump on one of them as hard as we could and try to ride the snow down the hill. That was fun until Jonathan got the brilliant idea of just jumping off. Jonathan jumped off four times each time he faceplanted. He says he tried to faceplant but that would be hard to believe. One person jumped off and the snow went up to his chest. It was a lot of fun, sorry I don't have any pictures.

Jessica is losing teeth!!!

One hour less than a week later Jessica lost another tooth. She lost it Saturday Night at 11:00 o'clock. She was very happy about losing another tooth and got two dollars from the tooth fairy. With all this economic recession it seems to me that the tooth fairy is getting a bit richer. I don't remeber getting five dollars for my first tooth and two dollars for my second tooth.

Jared's Graduation

We now have the official date for Jared's Graduation. It will be held on Sunday, May 31, 2009. The sooner you let us know that you are coming the sooner we will be able to reccomend a few hotel accomodations.

Update on Jessica's Tooth

Well, last Sunday Jessica lost her tooth. She lost it before church and was very excited about it. It wasn't until last night that she finally put the tooth under her pillow for the tooth fairy to come. Here are a couple of pictures...

Whats going on!

Beautiful Snow Day!!!!!

North Dakota was in a seven year drought. My guess is that they have changed their minds about that! In the pass couple of months we have recieved over fifty inches of snow. Tusday it snowed some more which would probably puts us close to 15 inches for the month of January. They said last year it did not snow in the month of January. Walmart and Arrowhead (a shopping center) had to close their stores for a few days to because the snow on the roof was getting so heavy that it was not safe. Here are a few more pictures of the snow. These were taken at the Pearson's house.

The Clouds That Just Keep on Giving "Snow"!!!!!

It snow again last night. This time is was only about seven inches. We broke the record for snow in the month of December with around 22 inches and we already have close to ten inches for the month of January. There is a window that overlooks that gym in our house we put up something in the gym window that said "Let It Snow". We were at Youth and someone told us to take it down because they didn't want anymore snow. There are a few people in our church that are worried that it might flood. And a lot of people are saying that they haven't gotton this much snow for ten years!

January 1, 2009

!!HAPPY NEW YEARS!!

The first thing that we did today was played basketball with some guys in the church. I believe that we had enough for four on four. We started at 12:45am and stopped around 2:30am after that we talked for a little bit longer than I finally went to bed about 3:30am. We had our watch night service. We weren't able to have foot washing because we could not find the buckets and towels that we needed to have the foot washing.

My dad told my sister about this guy that was in Alaska and was sitting at his table in his house with a sleeping bag around him and he froze to death, my dad said that the guy was like a popsicle. Later on that day my sister was talking on the phone to one of her friends and was telling her friend that there was this guy in Alaska who was sitting at his kitchen table with a blanket around and he got so cold that he turned into a popsicle!

Tuesday, December 30

Here are a few picture of the snow here in North Dakota.

Here is our van.

Here is a snow drift on the side of our church.

Here is the same snow drift. It goes halfway up the door and the door is about six inches to a foot above the ground.

Here is a view a little bit farther back. These snow drifts happen because of the wind.

The drift out there dosen't look real big, but if you were to walk out there in the middle of it you would change your mind.

Here is a little snow drift.

Here is snow we have shoveled out of the doorways.

Here are some tire marks in the snow. It might show a little bit how deep the snow really is.

We got around 4 to 6 inches of snow last night.

Christmas

Christmas is here the gifts are opened and now it is time to eat!!!

As you can see here the table is set. What are we waiting for? The FOOD!!!! We have had a great Christmas. We would love to be in Oregon and share our Christmas with you guys. But we don't have chains, so we would not be allowed on the road. Well anyways MERRY CHRISTMAS everyone!

December 14, 2008

We had a very unexpected surprise today. Jessica has her first loose tooth! We were sitting at the supper table and the next thing you know there are screams and tears flying. Jessica had mixed emotions about the whole ordeal. She wanted to smile and laugh about it, but then she was scared because her tooth was loose. But I think that she got over it and she is happy about it now.

The Installation Service

Here are a few pictures from the installation service here in Minot.

Bro. Gleason preached the installation service.


Elder Pearson installed Bro. and Sis. Starr.

Here Pastor sings "The Unseen Hand".


Here Dad makes a few remarks.

The Family

We have successfully moved from Hillsboro, Oregon to Minot, North Dakota. We have had to endure a little bit of snow, not much rain, and lots of basketball while being here. We have and are still a little bit adjusting to Minot. One of the first things we realized in fact is that it is cold. We realized this when the first snow came in about the first week of December and the first below zero weather came around the second week of December. But our family is adjusting and enjoying!

Jared is a senior this year and has started his first 'real' job. He works two nights a week doing floor maintenance in area businesses.

Jonathan is a freshman, has grown about a foot in the past year, and is still his happy self.

Jessica has made many new girlfriends of whom she is trying to 'straighten out'. She announced recently that she would like to give one of them a bible study so she can teach them to be a better friend.