Long Overdue!

Well all, so much for my grand desire to be better about this whole blogging thing! Looks like it has been a couple months since my last post! The recap is that Thanksgiving and Christmas both went well. Had the family over for both holidays, which was really wonderful. Our house has come together, and now feels like a wonderful home. We were able to have a beautiful Christmas tree in our kitchen (Adam didn't want it on the hard wood in the living room for fear that water might damage the new floor). The lights shone out through the window, hopefully delighting passers by. December also brought about the beginning of a youth group in our church. The starting of the youth Sabbath School class has now branched out into a youth group, and it is such a blessing, to the kids and to myself! The youth are such a great part of my heart, and it is wonderful to be able to work with them! Sadly, I am losing one of the members (Katy) to CVA this Sunday, but she will be back on breaks and for the summer. ;) I know God has great plans for our church in Bennington, and I believe that starting this youth group is one way in which He can reach out to our community. We created a motto which we need to put on a banner and put up in our room. I will write it out in a later post.

Other than that, one of the other highlights for Adam and I was having Joe and Megan stay with us for couple days during Christmas break. Adam had the week after Christmas off, so we were able to spend those days completely with them, which was great! Megan and I did a LOT of shopping, and Joe and Adam rode themselves out of style in snowmobiles (figure our speech). :) We joined them on the sleds Saturday, and finished up our last evening with them by having pizza, ice cream, and watching movies. :)

During almost the whole time they were here, we were having that grand snow storm the northeast was hit with over Christmas break. It lasted through the time they had to leave for Philadelphia. We tried to convince them to stay an extra day, but Megan had a full day of class on Monday, so she wanted to be there for them. So said our goodbyes, and prayed for them on their trip back. Turns out, Philly barely had a dusting of snow when they got back!

I think that is the gist of what has been going on the past couple months. :) I'll post some pictures a little later. :)