I love my children

"But now abide faith, hope, love, these three, but the greatest of these is love." 1Cor13:13

I absolutely love my kids (which includes my kids-in-law, Michelle and Jake, we never grow up, face it). I spent an absolutely great time with them over the Thanksgiving week up at the condos in Stoneridge. They all made it very special for me. There were moments on Thanksgiving, especially while cooking and sitting down at the dinner table, looking down the line of children, that it became hard. But God's grace got me through the rough times. With the kids, we all played walleyball, which is volleyball in a racquetball court, so you can play off the sides. Very exciting and fast. Here is a picture of the bunch of us after a game.

And we played Vetsch Fear Factor, a game of daring stunts, eating strange things and laughing, all in competition and fun. The final was a competition to see who would be fastest to retrieve a lock key with their mouth, which was embedded in a bowl of cow's brain (actually was only spaghetti sauce, but it sounds more exciting). Then run to the next condo and unlock your partner (who is locked up with chain and lock) with the key that you just retrieved from the cow's brain. Then the two of you run back to the other condo and eat chunks of cooked calves kidney, the fastest team is the winner. Well the two teams left for the final round was Jake and Hannah, Doug and Laura. It came down to a second difference in time between the two teams. But in the end, Doug and Laura were the 2008 Vetsch Fear Factor winners. Nathan even made a Fear Factor Trophy that the winner gets to keep until the next competition. I know, you are probably thinking "What a STRANGE family". Yes maybe, but we sure have fun being strange. Susan would have loved the competition this year. Not sure if she would have liked eating the calve kidney which was pretty disgusting. Here is a picture of all of us right after the Fear Factor.


And here is a picture of the long Thanksgiving table.



Some prayer requests:
1) Sarah came down with Strept Throat the Saturday after Thanksgiving. Pray that the antibiotic she was given, gets her well. She had to still go back to work as a Nanny on Sunday night. By then, she was no longer contageous. Here is a picture of her with the two kids she Nannys.

2) Mary jammed her right thumb in one of the walleyball games. Took her in along with Sarah on Saturday to Urgent Care. No broken bones, but just a sprain.
3) Jason traveled down to Phoenix today to visit friends and family. Pray for safety for him. He has not been away from home like this.