We all have something to be thankful for. I am thankful for the Hayes Center football season. They are playing for state championship Monday and whether they win or lose, they have played wonderfully. It has been great to watch them and to see them give thanks, kneeling on the field after each game. It has been good to see Matt involved in the school and the team! I am thankful for Matt and for the young man he is becoming.
I am also thankful for Peter and the young man he is becoming. He is making good decisions about his life and his future. It's not easy in this world today and it does my heart good to see them all changing and growing in a good direction.
I am thankful for Jenn. She has been growing and changing, not always easily, but she has goals and is not afraid to go for them. She has a vision for her life and (with God, I hope and pray) is following those visions and dreams.
I am thankful for friends. They laugh with you, cry with you, pray with and for you, pick you up, raise your spirits, keep you grounded, tell you what you need to hear, stand beside you. Friends are a gift from God.
I am thankful for my church. It's where I go to learn, fellowship, worship and teach. It's where I gather with my church family and get re-energized with God's Holy Spirit and love shown through all there.
I am so thankful for my God. He sent His Son to die for me when I SO don't deserve it. But that's the joy of Him. None of us deserve it, but He did it anyway because He loves us that much! It's hard to comprehend that kind of love but it's not hard to be thankful for it!
Basically I am thankful for family, friends, church, church family and God! With these things, who wouldn't be thankful!!
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Saturday, October 3, 2009
Fall Fun
I love fall! The colors changing, football, apple cider...But this year football has a new meaning for our home! Matt is playing foot ball at Hayes Center. He was hurt for a while but has played the last couple weeks and has done really well. He has made some tackles and last night he almost got an interception. He has talent, that's for sure!
Pete hurt his shoulder... again! Our church had a Flag Football and picnic last Sunday. Well first of all let me say that flag doesn't stay flag very long! There are all ages playing, from 3rd grades to 60 year olds. It is pretty entertaining! Anyway Peter was playing against an older, bigger person and messed up his shoulder again. He is back in physical therapy and is getting an MRI Monday because they think it is worse than earlier this summer when he hurt it. I guess we will see.
Jenn has a new job and really likes it. It is full time, so she will really like her first paycheck!!
I am having car trouble (again). I seem to have the worst luck with cars! Anyway, they are having a little trouble figuring out what is causing the trouble. I had a lesion taken off my leg Friday so my leg is a little sore but I'll live. I had one removed from the same spot many years ago but it has grown back. And I can tell that it is corn time. My allergies are AWFUL!!
That's what is going on in our corner of the world!
Pete hurt his shoulder... again! Our church had a Flag Football and picnic last Sunday. Well first of all let me say that flag doesn't stay flag very long! There are all ages playing, from 3rd grades to 60 year olds. It is pretty entertaining! Anyway Peter was playing against an older, bigger person and messed up his shoulder again. He is back in physical therapy and is getting an MRI Monday because they think it is worse than earlier this summer when he hurt it. I guess we will see.
Jenn has a new job and really likes it. It is full time, so she will really like her first paycheck!!
I am having car trouble (again). I seem to have the worst luck with cars! Anyway, they are having a little trouble figuring out what is causing the trouble. I had a lesion taken off my leg Friday so my leg is a little sore but I'll live. I had one removed from the same spot many years ago but it has grown back. And I can tell that it is corn time. My allergies are AWFUL!!
That's what is going on in our corner of the world!
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
What's "Happening"
Just a little update on what we are all doing. Nothing too exciting :)
Pete and Matt are both working for some friends of ours on farms/ranches. I think it's great! They are learning responsibility from someone besides me (which will probably go over better too, lol), getting to do different things from driving a combine to fixing fence to digging out cattle guards... and best of all they are earning their own money so they won't be asking me all the time!! Pete is driving the Intrepid because we got a different car that I am driving. He is very happy!
Jenn is still in the "Big City" working but is home a lot, or should I say Palisade a lot,as she has another reason besides us to come to Palisade?!?! She has a couple different jobs and is helping my mom since she recently had back surgery.
Matt and I helped at Hamlet Saturday. Our church just bought an old building and they had a work day for whoever could come to get the building down to basically bare bones. They figured there were about 35 people there helping and quite a few of them were under 21. One of the things the building is going to be used for is a new Youth Group place. They definitely need more room than what they have now. It will also be used for other things. Anyway, we started at 8:00, ate lunch at noon and then worked some more. It was dusty, dirty work but...we got it all done that day!! Everyone worked together so well!! We all wished we would have had cameras to take before and after pictures. It was such a change! Plus to get pictures of the people and their faces. Talk about dirty!!
I also would have gotten pictures of things like John and Jack in the rafters beating down the ceiling, John, Jack, Matt and I'm not sure who else on the roof tearing down the chimney, Marty in the hole in the front of the building on the scale, Tom C. balancing on very little wood (and about giving me a heart attack) to tear out plaster and stuff over the stairs to the basement, Kevin L. climbing up the same spot and grabbing hold of the beams above, swinging upside and then righting himself to get where the ladder couldn't go. Alec "sleeping" in a wheelbarrow, Alex having so much patience with Caleb when working with him, all the girls having fun in the back cleaning, Karen and Christi and the wonderful lunch they brought to us that different people donated, and so many others! It was a great day, not too hot and a little breeze. And working with friends with a common goal and getting it done!! Wow!
Well, that's it from us for now!
Pete and Matt are both working for some friends of ours on farms/ranches. I think it's great! They are learning responsibility from someone besides me (which will probably go over better too, lol), getting to do different things from driving a combine to fixing fence to digging out cattle guards... and best of all they are earning their own money so they won't be asking me all the time!! Pete is driving the Intrepid because we got a different car that I am driving. He is very happy!
Jenn is still in the "Big City" working but is home a lot, or should I say Palisade a lot,as she has another reason besides us to come to Palisade?!?! She has a couple different jobs and is helping my mom since she recently had back surgery.
Matt and I helped at Hamlet Saturday. Our church just bought an old building and they had a work day for whoever could come to get the building down to basically bare bones. They figured there were about 35 people there helping and quite a few of them were under 21. One of the things the building is going to be used for is a new Youth Group place. They definitely need more room than what they have now. It will also be used for other things. Anyway, we started at 8:00, ate lunch at noon and then worked some more. It was dusty, dirty work but...we got it all done that day!! Everyone worked together so well!! We all wished we would have had cameras to take before and after pictures. It was such a change! Plus to get pictures of the people and their faces. Talk about dirty!!
I also would have gotten pictures of things like John and Jack in the rafters beating down the ceiling, John, Jack, Matt and I'm not sure who else on the roof tearing down the chimney, Marty in the hole in the front of the building on the scale, Tom C. balancing on very little wood (and about giving me a heart attack) to tear out plaster and stuff over the stairs to the basement, Kevin L. climbing up the same spot and grabbing hold of the beams above, swinging upside and then righting himself to get where the ladder couldn't go. Alec "sleeping" in a wheelbarrow, Alex having so much patience with Caleb when working with him, all the girls having fun in the back cleaning, Karen and Christi and the wonderful lunch they brought to us that different people donated, and so many others! It was a great day, not too hot and a little breeze. And working with friends with a common goal and getting it done!! Wow!
Well, that's it from us for now!
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Our corner of Nebraska
Just thought I would let everyone know what is going on in our spot.
Peter is in Mexico. He went with the Mexico Caravan Mission that our church has been involved in for years. He has been before (all my kids have) and just loves it. He will be back the 7th.
Jenn has decided not to go back to school for a while. She doesn't know what she wants to do and so why take classes (and pay for classes) when you don't know where you are going with it. I don't blame her a bit. She is still working at the Daycare on campus amongst other things.
Matt has strep throat right now. Monday he had a fever up to 103.5. Tuesday it went down but then went up that high again so I took him to the hospital he got some antibiotics and is feeling better today. But it hurts to swallow.
My mom had surgery in Kearney last week on her back. They weren't able to do all of it so she is having more surgery tomorrow to hopefully finish. Matt and I went down there this weekend to see her (before he was sick).
We have almost all our garden planted. The rain has been great for everything.
Well that's how things are in our corner of Nebraska. How's you're corner?!?!
Peter is in Mexico. He went with the Mexico Caravan Mission that our church has been involved in for years. He has been before (all my kids have) and just loves it. He will be back the 7th.
Jenn has decided not to go back to school for a while. She doesn't know what she wants to do and so why take classes (and pay for classes) when you don't know where you are going with it. I don't blame her a bit. She is still working at the Daycare on campus amongst other things.
Matt has strep throat right now. Monday he had a fever up to 103.5. Tuesday it went down but then went up that high again so I took him to the hospital he got some antibiotics and is feeling better today. But it hurts to swallow.
My mom had surgery in Kearney last week on her back. They weren't able to do all of it so she is having more surgery tomorrow to hopefully finish. Matt and I went down there this weekend to see her (before he was sick).
We have almost all our garden planted. The rain has been great for everything.
Well that's how things are in our corner of Nebraska. How's you're corner?!?!
Monday, May 4, 2009
"A" Perfect Day!!
You may be wondering what would make me call this an A day. Well... Let me enlighten you! The sun was out! A+ The grass is growing A+ Dandelions growing D- Flowers growing and blooming A+ Birds singing A+ The dandelions kinda brought the grade down but the best 2 things of all I GOT TO MOW AND PULL WEEDS IN MY FLOWER BEDS!!! I know, some or you are thinking "Is she crazy?!?!" but no, I just love being outside "playing" in the dirt, seeing the beautiful plants God has created and being able to be out there planting, tending, helping things grow. I love the smell of dirt in the spring. It's not 90-100 degrees and you can enjoy the time outside w/o heatstroke or bugs! I loved the sound of all the lawn mowers going tonight! I was getting the mower out of the shed and my slip-on shoe slid off and my bare foot hit the soft, damp grass and I just wanted to shout Yippee! It was wonderful!! I am so glad that spring is here!!
Now you all know my secret passion!!
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Prom 2009
Getting ready to go!
And the full picture!
Pete and Jenna at our house.
The 3 Musketeers...
Or the 3 Amigos?!?!
Or the 3 Stooges!?!?
What a good looking group! Kelsie and Clint, Tyler and Laura, Peter and Jenna.
Yes Pete is taller than me!
Do those girls know what they are getting themselves into?!?!
Peter and Kim
Pete and Jenna, Clint and Kelsie
They had fun! I asked Jenna Sunday at church what she thought of prom and she said she thought it was over-rated! I told her she was very smart to have figured that out already. But they did have fun and that is what counts! But where has the time gone that these kids are so grown up?
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Well, I haven't put anything new on, I know, but we have had a few additions to our family. We adopted 5 Asian kids. We named all the boys Dave and the girls Lucinda.... Ok, that's Pete's weird story.
But seriously we have a new puppy. One of the patients from work asked if I knew anyone who wanted a Pomeranian. They had 4 puppies (they raise them). They said they were giving them away, as long as it was to someone they new that would give them a good home. I talked to the boys that night and Matt asked "It's not a yippy dog is it?" When I told them it was like what a friend of ours used to have, they said yes and told me what color they wanted.
I didn't know for sure when I would bring her home, so they were surprised when I did. They just love her!! She is so much fun to play with and she was already pretty much house trained. She is black with just a little bit of white. She is so little she is easy to lose. She only weighs about a pound but has a lot of hair!
Jenn had spring break this last week. She worked a few of the days, and then she was sick. She is better now, but not the most fun way to spend your first college spring break!
The choir is doing Oklahoma and Peter is playing Judd, the bad guy. He said, the most cheerful guy at school is playing a guy who never smiles. Weird!! But he does have prom next week.
Matt and I are going to Omaha March 31st to see a pediatric endocrinologist and see what they can figure out for him. Hopefully we will have some answers.
And me, let's see...work, work, work... not really but sometimes it seems like it. We have actually had 2 Sundays in a row now where we haven't had to go anywhere or do anything and we have been able to just relax. Matt and I are working on a puzzle together (thanks Kim) if it doesn't drive us crazy first!!! And the weather was nice this weekend so yesterday I did some things outside.
So that is our exciting life at the moment. lol
A STORY FROM MATTHEW
Once upon a time in a land not so far away (Palisade) there lived a frog this frog was named Geoffery he wanted to be a caterpillar. So one day Geoffery set out on an adventure with his trusty pal Alfonse the Penguin :D so they went to a place called Vesperia (The Grand Canyons). It was a perilus journey in which they encountered many a foes. It was very hot in the cold month of January, in Peru. To Be Continued...
Ok, now you can see what it is like in the Holmes home.
But seriously we have a new puppy. One of the patients from work asked if I knew anyone who wanted a Pomeranian. They had 4 puppies (they raise them). They said they were giving them away, as long as it was to someone they new that would give them a good home. I talked to the boys that night and Matt asked "It's not a yippy dog is it?" When I told them it was like what a friend of ours used to have, they said yes and told me what color they wanted.
I didn't know for sure when I would bring her home, so they were surprised when I did. They just love her!! She is so much fun to play with and she was already pretty much house trained. She is black with just a little bit of white. She is so little she is easy to lose. She only weighs about a pound but has a lot of hair!
Jenn had spring break this last week. She worked a few of the days, and then she was sick. She is better now, but not the most fun way to spend your first college spring break!
The choir is doing Oklahoma and Peter is playing Judd, the bad guy. He said, the most cheerful guy at school is playing a guy who never smiles. Weird!! But he does have prom next week.
Matt and I are going to Omaha March 31st to see a pediatric endocrinologist and see what they can figure out for him. Hopefully we will have some answers.
And me, let's see...work, work, work... not really but sometimes it seems like it. We have actually had 2 Sundays in a row now where we haven't had to go anywhere or do anything and we have been able to just relax. Matt and I are working on a puzzle together (thanks Kim) if it doesn't drive us crazy first!!! And the weather was nice this weekend so yesterday I did some things outside.
So that is our exciting life at the moment. lol
A STORY FROM MATTHEW
Once upon a time in a land not so far away (Palisade) there lived a frog this frog was named Geoffery he wanted to be a caterpillar. So one day Geoffery set out on an adventure with his trusty pal Alfonse the Penguin :D so they went to a place called Vesperia (The Grand Canyons). It was a perilus journey in which they encountered many a foes. It was very hot in the cold month of January, in Peru. To Be Continued...
Ok, now you can see what it is like in the Holmes home.
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