Beginnings

Last Sunday noon the girls organized and made lunch for Mothers Day. These seven Moms have busy lives with all their responsibilities.

Mark and Stacy's boys participated in a motocross race yesterday. My guess is this snapchat is Elijah in the 50cc class.

I see our bookkeeper, Linda, has a new mouse pad. It's a series of pics of Gavin and says, World's Best Grandma.

Jan and I went out to eat one rainy evening this past week and ran into Kurt and Brad's landlord. Gary was there with his brothers and sister and some of their families.

Jan went to Grandparents Day four different times this spring. I went along with her for this one. I had to draw a picture for grandsons Anton and Zac of what I remember doing as a kid. 

Congratulations to nieces, Ki, Moria, and 13 classmates who graduated from 8th grade at Osky Christian Friday evening. They all told us their favorite scripture verse and what it meant to them. I can still remember finding my verse when I was in 8th grade.

A big thank you to all the staff at Osky Christian who are so dedicated to what they do. Ruth, who is hiding in front of Royce in this pic, was recognized for her many years of getting young folks started off right in kindergarten. 

This morning our church will celebrate 9 young people professing their faith in their Lord. What a joy to hear these kid's testimonies earlier this month as an elder. Sometimes I think we as grownups need to be more brave in sharing what our Lord means to us. Our Dutch ancestors taught us showing emotions and sharing, shows weakness and makes one vulnerable. Well they were wrong and our young people are starting to break that tradition.

Starting last evening Jan and I are beginning the rest of our lives together in our new home. For supper we brought home Mexican take out and prayed together that God would bless us and help us bless others in this new endeavor.

There are still many things to move yet and projects to finish. I would use Becky's analogy of describing it as being a very practical home thanks to Jan and a very quality home thanks to Daryl and Coulton.

We have said we have no sentimental attachments to our old home. However after 38 years of life together in it and raising a family it's hard not to think back to all the memories when looking at an empty room with pictures on the wall. It's interesting what memories come to mind. We plan to take our old house down later this year.

Life moves on in the farming arena. The alfalfa is growing and will soon need to be cut.

It is always hard to know when to mow hay. We have not had very good drying conditions in order to bale. I seeded some hills and field borders down this spring hoping to have the grandkids experience small square baling, something I did all my summers growing up.

Our damp warm days have been ideal corn growing weather. We still have a little planting to finish up yet. Nowadays life on the farm seems to stay busy from April planting through July spraying. 

Since we 2 pass most of our corn acres it's time for the skinny tires on the sprayer. The dry box for spreading extra nitrogen also goes on this week.

This is a cool picture of Emily and Jackson taken by Kurt at their new Leighton farm. It so depicts a lifestyle. At the end of a day it shows faith, family, friends, and farming, all in one. Whether we're graduating from preschool, 8th grade, joining church, moving, or farming, God always has beginnings planned for us.