Finally... We have a new update on our blog!!!

We use Wild Blue for our internet...which limits your monthly downloads. We went 

way over our limit. Our consequence was EXTREMELY slow internet.:(  It was not 

even fun to  try to check our email. We finally got it back down and it is so 

exciting to get back to blogging. Since we did not have the internet to take up our

evenings we did a lot of practicing music. ( Mom and Dad liked it) :)

Snow Timez.....

Yea! We finally got a good snow! I think we had about 4-5 inches.To some that may not sound like

much at all, but this has probably been the most snow we've had in a long while.:) While looking at the

beautiful, perfectly white snow,  I was reminded of David's Psalm to the Lord God-

"Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me , and I shall be whiter than snow." (Psalm 51:7)

I think that is quite a verse. David is not asking to be as white as snow, but whiter  than snow! I

think it would be amazing to have a heart that is whiter than snow. The wonderful thing to be sure of

is that, when you have repented of  your many sins, Jesus Christ washes away the iniquities, and makes you

clean within. My desire is to have a heart that is clean, maybe even....whiter than snow! :)   

      

                                               This heifer was diligently leading her baby
                                               through the blizzard. It looks like it was just
                                               born a couple hrs. before.

                                                      Pretty sunrise after the snowy night.

                                                    Felisha and I decided to build a snowman
                                                    but not just any old ordinary snowman...
                                                    we made a cowboy snowman, he goes
                                                    by the name Minnie.

                                                              ...Felisha and Minnie...

                    

                                                                  ...Minnie and Me...

Butcher Time!!!

                                          Saturday kept us busy helping Grandpa Wells
                                          butcher his beef. We began at 8:00am and
                                          finished at 2:00pm.

                                         We did the butchering right here in our new
                                          kitchen! Even though we had a saw, grinder
                                          and all those knives in the house we did not
                                          do any damage as far as we can see.:)
                                          In this pic. we are skinning the meat so it will
                                          be clean. If you look in the background you
                                          can see Dad and Joe cutting T-bones.

                                          Break Time! I have to say it looks nasty and
                                          messy but our meat really is clean.:) It is a
                                          big  job getting the mess cleaned up.
                                     

                                                     Mom is holding up a shoulder steak.

                                                     She wraps the meat in plastic and then

                                                     gives it to one of us to wrap in paper,

                                                     tape and label.

                                          Some of the labeled packages.

                                    

J & M Blacksmith Productions!

Joe and Manny busy forging in their little blacksmith

shop. In this picture Joe is getting ready to make a

leaf and Manny is preparing the fire.

Wow! very nice BIG fire! I was not expecting that.

The boys informed me that sometimes they need the

fire to be real big.

...the formation...

And the final piece of art!

Happy New Year!!!

It is so hard to believe that it is already 2010!It seems like

last year went by so fast. I am so excited about starting this

new year with ambition toward new opportunities and challenges

that God Himself sets before us. Thinking about this new year

brings a verse to mind...Philippians 3:13-14:

Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended:but this one

thing I do , forgetting those things which are before, I press toward

the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

Have A Blessed New Year!!!