So much to share!!!!

We took our two grandsons - Trenton and Austin - back with us from Michigan and we have been busy ever since!!! They have totally taken to hunting everything that flys or hops.....pheasants, turkey, grouse and jackrabbits. Grandpa is having as much fun as they are!!! And I stay busy cooking ---- we have eaten wild game every night for a week now!! NO!!! not the rabbits! I draw the line there.....plus it's reported that some have a disease.

Release time has gone well....everyone has enjoyed an Ice Cream Sundae for good behavior.......topping of choice, whipped cream and a cherry for good measure. We will be having a Christmas Party for the older kids that we are involved with this coming Saturday - the 13th. We have a lot of help for this and it should go good. The kids will be putting together a "soup in a jar" and "cookies in a jar" for their familes and receiving some type of family fun game.....along with the donated blankets and slippers, and could be more that I'm not even aware of. So many people are sharing the love of Christ with the kids. :-)

Saving the best news for last....... We went to the JDC tonight. The lesson was on Noah and it is a powerful lesson ---- maybe you'd like to hear it sometime :-)
We had about 17 kids tonight - 6 girls and the rest boys. All 6 girls stayed to ask Christ into their hearts. Cheyenne had already prayed the week before and she remembered but it's good to have her stay --- reinforces it for the other girls. It is so awesome to see their smiles knowing they are now a child of God. It is ALWAYS a joy to go to the JDC --- we have a lot of fun with the kids.....many have been there from the beginning of our time there. We always get handshakes from the boys. The guard who prayed to receive Christ has been there for the past few lessons. He said some of the guards don't want to be there but he enjoys it.

As we left tonight for the JDC the sky looked VERY threatening!!!! And as we got just north of St. Francis it started to snow. The roads became terrible!! But it was a short storm and by the time we got to the JDC it was done...but had left 2 inches of snow behind. The trip home was on VERY icy roads......no salt trucks out here. They do put down some sand on the steep hills near town. We got behind a couple of cars going 5 miles an hour. Gary couldn't stand it!!

We ask you to pray for the girls. We never know how long they will be there -- but we talked about the fact that God knows their hearts (and they nodded in agreement)... and we leave them in the hands of a loving heavenly Father.

Gary and Barb