German

The kids at Alair's school have been learning German this year.  The teacher from CVLHS comes over twice a week.  They are doing great. CVLHS has a German Fest every fall with great food and a church service. This year Alair's school mates participated by saying the common table prayer in German and introduced themselves in German. They were fed a different meal,though. The traditional German food was wonderful. This is Mrs. Cram, Mrs. Bill and the students in Alair's school.

Thanksgiving 2012

Since Aubrey and Troy have been dating, it's hard to get everyone together. We usually do Thanksgiving on Saturday or Sunday and the kids can go to the inlaws on Thursday. Alec has the girls from Wed. to Friday. We  this year we also have Troy's kids to schedule around. I decided to have dinner here on Saturday and invited Troy's parents and his sister and family. Ruth, his mom, said sure as long as we had dinner at their house on Thursday. It was fun, but quiet, as most of the kids were gone. Here are a couple pictures from Saturday.

Travis and Dannie

These young men are our newest grandchildren. Top is Travis, born to Andy and Christine on November 1st.  Bottom is Dannie, born to Allison and Chris on November 20th.  That makes 9 in all.

Catching up

I can see I haven't posted for 2 months. A lot has happened. This may take a while.  First, after I made the chasuble, Kim made a prie-dieu for our church.  It turned out very nice.  The church also voted to pay me for materials to make a purple chasuble. I will start that in January. I am so happy about this as I think it adds to the service and Pastor wants to wear them.

Blue Chasuble

This is the blue chasuble I made. I made a red one a couple years ago. I want to make a green one and purple one too, but the fabric is expensive, so it won't happen too soon.

Saturday Supper

I decided to have Saturday Supper instead of Sunday Dinner last week as we wanted to go to a church dinner on Sunday.  Ashley had found a recipe in one of my cookbooks so I thought now would be a good time to make it. It called for hot dogs, refried beans, cheese, salsa verde and tortillas. I didn't think everyone would like them, so I added a few things....chili, hotdog buns, rice, relish, cheese sauce, sour kraut, fried onions, ketchup, mustards,sandwich sauces, chips, salsa and apple slices. We also had apple pie and ice cream for dessert. It was great. Andy's mom, Marty was here too. It was nice to see her again.

1st Annual Woodcutters Barbeque and Potluck

On Sept. 29th, the sons and sons-in-law came to help Kim cut wood. They cut all day and then in the evening we celebrated Evelyn, Mila and Corine's birthdays at a pizza place. It was a lot of fun.  The next day, Chris roasted a whole pig in his spit. It was so good. The weather was quite warm, so we didn't have the competitions as we had planned. Hopefully next year will be a little cooler. It was a great weekend! Here are some pictures. The top picture is out of order. It's also farther down. Ignore it.