This little boy and the bobcat

was hauling wood.
Singing

he carefully pulled up to the porch

and dumped the wood.

Looking at old pictures ...

again :)

Recently our hammered Dulicimer was pulled out and

Jeremiah helped Sarah in her effort to try to tune it.

Mum enjoying her Tortilla maker. Uriah making No Bake cookies.


Susanna's Valintine gave her 12 red roses.

Susanna making dinner . . .

. . . and dessert for her Valintine

Monday evening we watched a movie about Nate Saint and Jim Elliot, they were men who made an effort to reach a tribe of natives with the Gospel. In the end these men gave their lives while trying to reach this tribe with the Gosple of Jesus Christ. There was one phrase out of this movie that probably all of us will remember, "My father's life was not taken, he gave it."

(this was the son taking about his father who had given his life so the natives could hear the Gospel)

It is interesting to find that the Hebrew word for Love means "give" or "to give". Nate Saint and Jim Elliot gave their lives. . . God gave his Son.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16

Lemon's visit

The Lemon family, missionaries to Korea, stopped in for a couple days. We kept them at our home and enjoyed their visit much.

playing school

cowboys and Indians

Mrs. Lemon

Jeremiah listened to three of the little children while they read. He really enjoys being responsible. :)

The little boys made big messes. If I recall right ... this is the tower of Babel.

Nathan and Joshua must be the bankers. The monopoly game lasted quite awhile.

Friday afternoon the snow started to fall and fall.

Before six p.m. our family minus a few left to go to a "jam" , before we arrived there we aquired two extra girls (Kathryn and Lydia Bender) .

Getting out of our driveway was our first obstacle but with Dad's excellent and fearless driving abilities we made it out.

We enjoyed our time "jammin" and then started on our trek home but we ended up in a ditch!! A thank you to Mr. Anderson and his tractor which finally got us on the road again. Since the roads were so bad we decided it best just to let the Bender girls spend the night.

We woke up to a beautiful sight!

Home Sweet Home

Lydia

Kathryn

Sarwa

clothes pins on the line

birdhouse

Looking at old pictures

from back then ...

Grandma Veon has quite the pile of old pictures. She had us look through a lot of them and bring some home last evening. We looked different back then didn't we?!!!

Of Being a Twin

Questions/Answers

l. to r. Jared, Nathan


l. to r. Naomi, Sarah

1. Are you 'mirror twins' ? Mum has trained all four of us to write with our right hand so we do not know if any of us were left handed. The girls are mirror twins in at least one way. One has an ingrown tooth in her mouth pointing to the left and the other has her's pointing to the right.

2. Do you have facial feature differences? Yes, Nathan seems to have a smaller and longer face than Jared. Jared has a broader forehead. Nathan has more of 'head' in the back. Sarah has a freckle on her right cheek that Naomi does not have. Naomi's right cheek lifts when she smiles and Sarah's left cheek lifts when she smiles. Naomi's face is pixie and petitte while Sarah's face is a little thinner.

3. Do each of you have different personalities? As far as we know, No. Every twin has the power of influencing their own twin.


4. Are you fraternal or Identical? They are indentical (both sets).

5. Which one is older? Naomi is older than Sarah by 18 minutes. Jared is older than Nathan by 3 minutes.

6. Is there any difference being a mother of twins and being a mother of single siblings? Carrying the children was the greatest challenge, and of course double the work as infants, but the blessings are doubled as well.

7. What is the difference between identical and fraternal twins? Identical twins come from the egg splitting and becoming two separate people. Fraternal twins are hereditary and happen when two different eggs are fertilized. Identical are always the same sex, but fraternal can be either.

8. When are the twins the most fun? When they are newborns and babies and you take them places. Everyone enjoys seeing twins. It was really fun when our twins were small, because they were 20 months apart. Two sets of twins was rather an unusual phenomenom!