November News

Greetings, friends and readers!

 

     It's been a fun and semi-eventful last month.  Fall "ended" abruptly with the first appearance of snow on November 8th.  Since then, we've had weather in the teens and twenty's and snow covering the ground.  I had a nice birthday in November.  Dan got me a cake and ice cream and also took me out to eat. 

     Our church celebrated Thanksgiving with a special meal the Sunday before Thanksgiving.  That was nice. 

    

     Dan's truck has been out of commission since October 14th.  He had some work done on it the week prior and then it broke down.  The shop that worked on it still has it.  

     The pumpkins that were decorating the front of the church froze and then thawed out, so they were needing to be used.  I cooked them and blended and canned four of them (used all of my canning jars too!) and we've been enjoying pumpkin bread and pies. 

 

We made a whirlwind trip to Georgia for a few days in November.  Our flights were very late at night.  Lucie and I had fun taking pictures of Dan and Gwen, who were sleeping.

 

 

In the airport at 11PM, our children were wide awake and ready to go!

 

 

 

It was nice to see family and spend a little time with them.

 

 

For Thanksgiving, we were able to drive down to Pennsylvania to my family's.  I enjoyed seeing everyone and being able to attend church at the church I grew up going to.  While we were down there, we made a quick stop at B+B's, the Amish store.  We have recently gotten into eating oatmeal for breakfast each morning, so we bought lots of oatmeal and coffee. 

 

 

 

 

 

Gwendolyn is now 18 months old and is doing pretty good.  When we were down in PA, she contracted croup, as well as pink eye.  She is still recovering from the croup/cold/cough she has.  We had to take her to get eye drops for the pink eye. 

 

Lucinda ended up getting the pink eye as well, and the croup.  Hers seems much worse because she's smaller.  Our nights have been very rough lately.  I'm just praying that soon everything will be back to normal. 

 

I make different kinds of Christmas cookies each day.  I take care of the children, teach piano lessons, and plan church events.  Dan works a lot, and tries to get a deer before the season ends next Tuesday.  So far, we've only gotten one, and it was small.

 

Well, I hope to post again in the next few days here.  We had Christmas family photos taken, so I'll share them next time!

Hope you all are loving your December so far!   

A Visit home...

 

 

 

Two weeks ago, my grandparents celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary.  My sister planned a surprise anniversary party for them with the family.  So I drove down and spent several days with my parents.  My car needed to be inspected as well, so I took my car to the auto shop for that. 

 

I arrived on Wednesday evening and went right outside and picked some raspberries.  After that, we went to the midweek prayer meeting at church.

 

Thursday was very nice because I was able to spend the whole day with my dad.  He took me to one of my favorite stores (the Amish store, BB's).   

 

 

Friday, I helped my parents around the farm, getting things ready for markets on Saturday!

 

Then on Saturday morning, I went to market in Westminster with my mother.  We were there from about 6AM-12:30PM.  It was a good day and went by quickly. 

 

We stopped and got slushies at Sheetz on our way home, which was nice and refreshing. 

After getting home, we cleaned my parents house.  Then, I drove to Hoss's, where the surprise party was to take place.

 

It was wonderful to see all of the different members of the family show up.  I, of course, was running around trying to take pictures of everyone. 

 

 

My niece, Ella.

 

Oliver, Elisabeth and Isabelle.

 

My parents, and Sarah, Billy, and Willie.

 

I DO have pictures of the surprise, but they are on my phone and will not download for some reason. 

My grandparents were so surprised to see the whole family together, celebrating them.

 

We were able to get one group photo with my whole family, my uncles whole family, and my grandparents.  It's not a good-quality photo, but at least we got one!

Stuart with Jochebed.

 



 

All of the nieces and nephews love uncle Daniel, my brother-in-law. 

 

I wish I had taken better pictures, but at least I got some!  I had a wonderful time at home, especially with my parents.  However, it was my first time being away from Dan for four days in a long time, and I missed him SO much.  After driving back to New York, it was good to be back with my husband.