Okay, so Joanna has been officially diagnosed by her siblings with having the "too busy to blog" syndrome. Working at the dentist office, teaching piano, playing basketball and trying to keep up with school at the same time makes it pretty hard to sqeeze in additional social networking much less the other components of her packed schedule. So, (like most hand-me-down things so common to a second oldest) I guess I've inherted the blog-keeping-uping as well. :)

Valentines Day was quite a while ago, but here are some pictures from the party:

We blew up a bunch of balloons before everybody showed up. It looks like there's some sort of competition going on here, but really I think they're just posing.

We played games, ate lunch and did all the other things you do at Valentine's parties. At the end of the day we played a big game of draw-&-guess Pictionary, then some of us went for a walk in the grey, rainy, beautiful Alaskan weather.

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Emma started playing indoor soccer a couple weeks ago. We all enjoy watching her games and love cheering her and her team on. I'm not sure who gets more excerise- Emma on the soccer court or all of us on the bleachers.

Emma, being an awsome goalie. (I'm not quite sure if she's throwing the ball, or makeing a smooth move in anticipation of catching it...)

I'm not exactly sure what she's doing here either... I wonder if it has anything to do with the ball, or if it is just another random act of Emma'ness.

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In case you were wondering; it is still snowy here. It did rain the other day, but that didn't really make things any better. We got in a couple of good days outside before everything turned to slush and ice though.

This is our snow mountain, or was our snow mountain. We descided to build a hugely monsterous pile of snow hoping that sooner or later it might turn itself into an igloo. It never really did. The thing is, we all got so tired hauling all the snow over to one spot that we just deided to skip hollowing it out. Now, after the rain, it remains a lumpy, melting, sloppy white hill that will probably still be there a month from now. :)



In the midst of all the snow in our lovely little town, a missionary family came up to visit with us a bunch of other families and share with us an update on their work in Peru. It was amazing to hear again, the power that God's Word has to change lives. We got to spend a lot of time with them, at church, at our house, and out in the snow (they even helped us build our snow mountain, and made it into some of the pictures) :)



This is Emma and I playing Scattergories with three of the missionary kids.



So, that's what's been going on around here lately (and not so lately).
February flew by and March is already slipping away.

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Joanna and I are going on a short-term missions trip at the end of the month. I would be so thankful if you all prayed for us and this trip. Pray that God with have His hand of protection on us and our group, that He would keep our hearts humble and willing to serve Him, and that through us, God would impact, for His glory, the lives of the people we are going down there to serve.


I will add, before I sign off that you'd better have appreciated this post; not for the post's sake, I must say, but because this is the third time I've attempted to create it - the first two times I accidentatly deleated the complete entry just as I had finished the last word. -since then I've had sufficient time to get aquainted with this program and have commited to memory this complete section. :) -So, here it is.


...no wonder Joanna didn't seem to mind when I offered to relieve her position...
:)