Greetings this 2018 Thanksgiving and Christmas Season!

Greetings this 2018 Thanksgiving and Christmas Season!

This has been a very eventful year for us. The picture above was taken when Sarah came out to
visit for a couple weeks the end of October.  More about that later.

This year began with Sarah and I leaving the day after Christmas for a road trip across the United
States to Pinehurst, NC where she had an apprenticeship waiting for her. It was an 8-day road trip.  
What an adventure that was! We had perfect weather the whole way once we left Idaho and entered
Nevada. The only bad weather (blizzard) happened the day after we arrived at her condo she
had rented. God was so good.

Sarah is now a permanent employee and resident of NC.  We miss her a lot. She loves her social marketing job with Classical Conversations.  It’s a homeschool curriculum company.

So Nathaniel turned another year older in March as did Sarah in January right after we arrived in
Pinehurst.  So they are 25 and 22 years old. Hard to believe. Where has the time gone?! He is now working at a grocery store and so far likes it.

Rick and I celebrated 35 years of marriage this summer.  We went to Kennewick and had a motel night.

It wasn’t exactly as I had hoped.  I was hoping we could go walk in the park and maybe have
a picnic, but the wildfire smoke was so bad we had to stay inside.  Driving over we couldn’t see a lot
except for a wall of smoke ahead of us. Oh well. We made the best of it and we enjoyed the time
away in spite of the smoke.

Sarah came out to visit end of October for a whirlwind two weeks.  She had many friends she wanted to see and spend time with, so we shared her and enjoyed the time we had. We had a combined
Christmas/Thanksgiving dinner and gift exchange while she was here since she won’t be coming out for the holidays..

Sarah and I went on a 10-mile hike in the Wallowa mountains one day while she was here. I am not in
shape for hiking, so I paid for that for almost a week after, but it was still satisfying to know I still have
it in me.

We also took a day to go see Mom, Blayne, Becky and Dan in Walla Walla.  That was fun. Lots of
laughs there.
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This year has been a busy crazy year, that is for sure.  In other news, we changed churches. God has blessed us and it has been good.

We have learned this year to trust God with our lives and the details of our lives.  It has been encouraging looking back over the year and seeing how God orchestrated all the details, even using what looked like bad circumstances for our good. And letting our child take off and fly away

from the nest is a real exercise in faith. He truly is faithful!

“But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is,
and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.” ‭‭Heb, ‭11:6‬
Do you believe Him?