OK, SO WHERE WAS I...

...Oh, yeah! Now I remember. April 8th, 2006. Mark and Ramsey were heading to Tennessee to hunt turkeys. That was almost three years ago. I feel like Rip Van Winkle. Quite a lot has happened since then:

We've all gotten older. Big surprise to ya'll, I know.

I enrolled in college for the first time. Part time associate degree RN program at the area technical college. This spring semester I will complete the required courses to be licensed as a Practical Nurse. How practical is that?

Ramsey is deployed with the 951st Engineer Battalion out of Rhinelander/Tomahawk. He is currently at Camp Shelby, MS, and will leave for Afghanistan later this month. More on that later.

Taylie began her freshman year of college at Crown College in Minnesota. She is pursuing a BS in Elementary Education. She looks forward to spending Spring Break on a mission trip with the Crown women's volleyball team in the Dominican Republic.

Tessa turns 16 (!!) TODAY. She has grown into a lovely young woman with many gifts and a tender servant's heart. She loves to cook, bake, make jewelry, and watch movies. She spoils me with her willingness to help in the kitchen and around the house in general.

Wylie has shot up, relatively speaking, to be the tallest in our family at a whopping 5'8" and he'll turn 15 next month. A man of varied interests, he loves to duck hunt, turkey hunt, ice fish, read, draw realistic pictures of semi trucks, and avoid doing schoolwork. Wylie also has the opportunity to go on a short-term mission trip next month to Budapest, Hungary, with a group from church.

Mark left Viking Builders in April of 2007 to go on his own doing carpentry and guiding. It has been an interesting time with the economic downturn, but God has provided in amazing ways and we are growing in our walk with Him.

Well, that's it in a nutshell...I s'pose I can expound on some of this in future posts. For anyone who might happen to have been left hanging three years ago, wondering about the results of the Tennessee turkey hunt: Mark and Ramsey each bagged a bird.