Today Doug and the boys had to dig out — again — from snow. We had about a foot from this last bout. And, when you figure in the other storms and light snows we've had, we must have about two feet right now...of course, most people DO have two feet but I mean two feet of snow.
Last winter we got several feet of snow in the spring. This winter we're getting everything in December. Does that mean we'll have a dry spring?
And coolllldddd. yuck.
snow is good for one thing...a Christmasy mood. But now, as we finish the holiday season and are nearing epiphany, I wish it would get warm!
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Sunday, November 16, 2008
It's November?!!!?!!!
Yowzers. It seems strange that it's already November! And right around the corner is Christmas. What's up with that?
Wayne and Nancy and boys spent almost two weeks in Calgary visiting her parents, Jim and Sharon. The pictures show everyone having a great time! What fun...visiting in the mountains...playing with cousins and just visiting!
The first night they came back Nancy asked us to come over to see the kids. What a joy to talk about their trip and give the little guys big hugs from Grandpa and Grandma!
We've had it super wet here! And we've had a tad of snow, although there are only traces, really, that are showing on the edges of lawns. Yuck!
Monday, October 20, 2008
An update
Here's the quick D. Stender family update:
Doug continues to see the country driving for Otter Tail Coaches. Last week Doug drove and I chaperoned the Fan/Band bus of Hillcrest students to a Hillcrest Soccer game. If Hillcrest won, they'd be in the state tourney. They lost. We are very blessed to have a special, caring and dedicated coach in Rod Jensen. One of these days, he'll have a team at state tourneys. It just wasn't in the cards for this year. They still did fantastic. It's an international team of Hillcrest U.S. students, students from Norway and others from South Korea. We are blessed too to have such talented students.
Carol: I'm still writing and am seeing the country. I hope to get a new and used car this fall...the car will most likely be used but it will be new to me! Need a good runner for all the miles I travel! I keep watching the weather reports closely since we will soon be bombarded with...gasp...snow and ICE. Hate the ice!
Andy: is finishing up the football season. He played on JV and their season is done but they play against varsity as the varsity prepares for its first tourney game this weekend! He works at Take 5. Busy, busy, busy schedule!
Jose: He's looking forward to basketball season. He enjoys hanging out with his friends, too. We have plans to paint his room soon. The couple who ran the orphanage, lovingly referred to as Papa Ed and Momma Rosa, are coming for a visit next month. In Fergus Falls, they'll visit us, the Prestons and Amy Twedt who operates the adoption agency that we used for the adoption. What a fun visit that will be! Such workers for the Lord, the Salas' are! (ooooo. That sounded like a Yoda comment!) Ed and Rosa will travel to Michigan and further for Thanksgiving before returning to Mexico.
And our elder crew:
Wayne and Nancy are super busy parents! Wayne works with ministry and peer ministry at Hillcrest. He'll be returning to Fergus late tonight from a speaking engagement in Seattle plus Hillcrest promotional trip. Nancy watches a little one and keeps up with their two busy boys! And it's all boys she watches! Yowzers! She also deans at Hillcrest dorms on Mondays.
JP and Julie are busy setting up their careers. JP works for Thrivent and somehow he weathered the parental storm provided by us as we looked into an insurance policy. You'll want to schedule an appointment with him...he makes GREAT coffee! And Julie is student teaching in Perham this fall. She'll be finished in early November and then can teach! What a great, organized teacher she is!
Well, that's our updates.
Doug continues to see the country driving for Otter Tail Coaches. Last week Doug drove and I chaperoned the Fan/Band bus of Hillcrest students to a Hillcrest Soccer game. If Hillcrest won, they'd be in the state tourney. They lost. We are very blessed to have a special, caring and dedicated coach in Rod Jensen. One of these days, he'll have a team at state tourneys. It just wasn't in the cards for this year. They still did fantastic. It's an international team of Hillcrest U.S. students, students from Norway and others from South Korea. We are blessed too to have such talented students.
Carol: I'm still writing and am seeing the country. I hope to get a new and used car this fall...the car will most likely be used but it will be new to me! Need a good runner for all the miles I travel! I keep watching the weather reports closely since we will soon be bombarded with...gasp...snow and ICE. Hate the ice!
Andy: is finishing up the football season. He played on JV and their season is done but they play against varsity as the varsity prepares for its first tourney game this weekend! He works at Take 5. Busy, busy, busy schedule!
Jose: He's looking forward to basketball season. He enjoys hanging out with his friends, too. We have plans to paint his room soon. The couple who ran the orphanage, lovingly referred to as Papa Ed and Momma Rosa, are coming for a visit next month. In Fergus Falls, they'll visit us, the Prestons and Amy Twedt who operates the adoption agency that we used for the adoption. What a fun visit that will be! Such workers for the Lord, the Salas' are! (ooooo. That sounded like a Yoda comment!) Ed and Rosa will travel to Michigan and further for Thanksgiving before returning to Mexico.
And our elder crew:
Wayne and Nancy are super busy parents! Wayne works with ministry and peer ministry at Hillcrest. He'll be returning to Fergus late tonight from a speaking engagement in Seattle plus Hillcrest promotional trip. Nancy watches a little one and keeps up with their two busy boys! And it's all boys she watches! Yowzers! She also deans at Hillcrest dorms on Mondays.
JP and Julie are busy setting up their careers. JP works for Thrivent and somehow he weathered the parental storm provided by us as we looked into an insurance policy. You'll want to schedule an appointment with him...he makes GREAT coffee! And Julie is student teaching in Perham this fall. She'll be finished in early November and then can teach! What a great, organized teacher she is!
Well, that's our updates.
I don't like sharing
There are some things I like to share...
a recipe
a good book
a piece of Weight Watchers chocolate cake (that's a dream. I'm doing WW Core and bread or anything similar there of is a no-no)
But I don't like sharing colds.
I'm not the one who wants to share this thing...Andy gave it to me!
He was a very sick boy a couple of weeks ago. Severe sore throat and cold. A throat culture on, of course, when else do you get them... a Sunday morning in the emergency room (Do you hear the cha-ching, cha-ching of charges on that visit? It's resounding in my ears!) showed he didn't have strep but was definitely battling an infection.
After some hefty antibiotics, he's baaacckkkk! That's the good news. He slept most of the days he was home but, with the antibiotics, was coming around on a Monday and went to school the next day.
Glad he's back at it but now, I'm down for the count!
a recipe
a good book
a piece of Weight Watchers chocolate cake (that's a dream. I'm doing WW Core and bread or anything similar there of is a no-no)
But I don't like sharing colds.
I'm not the one who wants to share this thing...Andy gave it to me!
He was a very sick boy a couple of weeks ago. Severe sore throat and cold. A throat culture on, of course, when else do you get them... a Sunday morning in the emergency room (Do you hear the cha-ching, cha-ching of charges on that visit? It's resounding in my ears!) showed he didn't have strep but was definitely battling an infection.
After some hefty antibiotics, he's baaacckkkk! That's the good news. He slept most of the days he was home but, with the antibiotics, was coming around on a Monday and went to school the next day.
Glad he's back at it but now, I'm down for the count!
Saturday, September 20, 2008
updates on life...
Doug is driving the Fergus Falls community college football team to a game in northern Minnesota today. It was an overnight trip for him.
Andy went in the fourth quarter of the varsity football game last night. He has a JV game on Monday. He's working tonight at Take 5...Take 5, the convenience store that has employed almost everyone in the family!
Jose goes to youth group and likes riding bike with his friends. tonight he is at a party. It's going to be an interesting winter and will certainly cut into his socializing time. He is doing more and more of his homework by himself.
I am busy with work, as always. I have had an opportunity to interview many special people. I've truly been blessed in my work. I interviewed the first runner up for the Mn. pork ambassador position and found out her mom is from Barrett, my home town! Talk about a small world! Fun!
I have now finished painting the dining room (with Nancy) and living room (with Jose, Nancy had to work) and am planning painting of our foyer.
JP is busy with his work at Thrivent and is preparing for the hunting season (he should just drive my car...that's guaranteed to get a deer or two!) Julie is student teaching in Perham. Miss seeing her...she's gone during the week and the weekends are precious times together for the two of them. Wayne is active in the Hillcrest ministry and at Bethel church and Nancy and Wayne are busy with their two and Nancy with babysitting and deaning at the school.
Wow! It's something when we can get everyone together now! But we do. That time together is important and precious...
That's our update for now. And what's new with you?
Good morning sunshine...but where IS the sun?!
I am not a big fan of fall.
The changing leaf color isn't a problem, it's the later sunrise and earlier sunset that bothers me.
I am an early riser. I like getting up around 5 a.m. Actually, it's not much of a choice for me. Once a country girl, always a country girl!
Nancy said Kian woke up around 4 one morning and Wayne commented, as the two of them woke up to the crying infant, that they should take him to grandpa's and grandma's house because THEY would be up! We probably would be up! It's just our nature.
It's just hard to get up and get motivated with the dark mornings!
Wish it was spring again....
Saturday, August 30, 2008
Painting party with Nancy
Wayne, Nancy and boys came over last night. I'd requested help in finding colors to paint our living and dining areas. The painting was a must. I couldn't take the "baby-poop" yellow anymore!
Nancy compared swatches and placed them against the walls and woodwork to make sure the color would match the existing woodwork in our 1920s era home. She found what she believed were the perfect matches and the rest was up to me. I had to wash the walls, tape the woodwork and get the paint and various other assundries all for painting. Nancy said she'd be by later to help.
I couldn't believe how long the cleaning and taping process took but I remained firm in my resolve to get this painting done during labor day weekend. By early afternoon, Nancy came and we started to paint. I did the cutting in near the trim and Nancy manned the roller.
In a couple of hours we finished the dining area and have yet to finish the living room, hopefully on Monday. I keep looking at our handiwork and am marveling at the appearance of the room. It seems so fresh!
Then we went to ... well, originally we were going to celebrate our labors at Applebees but a bunch of Hillcrest Norweigian students beat us there so we went to the chinese restaurant nearby.
We both ate WAY too much but it was good!
Thanks, Nancy. You are a trooper and I appreciate your help. And I thank you for your company at dinner! Good conversation and good food. We are blessed! Thanks, Nanc!
Nancy compared swatches and placed them against the walls and woodwork to make sure the color would match the existing woodwork in our 1920s era home. She found what she believed were the perfect matches and the rest was up to me. I had to wash the walls, tape the woodwork and get the paint and various other assundries all for painting. Nancy said she'd be by later to help.
I couldn't believe how long the cleaning and taping process took but I remained firm in my resolve to get this painting done during labor day weekend. By early afternoon, Nancy came and we started to paint. I did the cutting in near the trim and Nancy manned the roller.
In a couple of hours we finished the dining area and have yet to finish the living room, hopefully on Monday. I keep looking at our handiwork and am marveling at the appearance of the room. It seems so fresh!
Then we went to ... well, originally we were going to celebrate our labors at Applebees but a bunch of Hillcrest Norweigian students beat us there so we went to the chinese restaurant nearby.
We both ate WAY too much but it was good!
Thanks, Nancy. You are a trooper and I appreciate your help. And I thank you for your company at dinner! Good conversation and good food. We are blessed! Thanks, Nanc!
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