Friday Fun

Friday afternoon was kind of a fun day for the kids at school. I took my class outside for some pictures, and then they got to go upstairs to see a cow's heart and lungs dissected. They had a blast (most of them) feeling the different parts.

What a bunch of goofballs.

Kaatje showing the kids the heart and lungs.

When I showed this boy this picture he said, "I was just so astonished!"

So Cute...

Bad News/Good News

We had an interesting day last week. We had been looking into getting a new vehicle and had found one in Kalispell that we wanted to go look at. On Thursday we finally convinced ourselves to go look at it, so we took some friends after school and went up to check it out. On the way there, we saw tons of deer standing around in fields and some crossing the road behind us. All of a sudden, there was a deer coming straight at us, and John swerved a little, but still hit it. It was pretty small, so it didn't do as much damage as it could have. The deer got up and ran away, but I'm pretty sure it still died.

Anyway, we continued to Kalispell and ended up buying the new car we were looking at. Its a 2006 Nissan Xterra. We're pretty excited about it. And now we have something to drive while the car gets fixed. We're already talking about some of the places we want to go now that we have a vehicle that we can drive places our car can't go. There are so many hiking trails in the mountains that are hard to get to. Even getting home when it is snowy is a challenge in our car, so we're glad to finally have 4 wheel drive.

Youth Group Ski Trip

John and I help out with the youth group for our church, which basically is for the houseparents kids from the ranch, the ministers kids, and a few foreign exchange students who live with a member of our church. We thought it would be fun to take them skiing this winter, since many of them had never gone. They had a blast! Almost all of them caught on right away and were doing several blue runs by the end of the day. There were only a couple who didn't really get it, but they still had a good time. It also gave John and I the chance to work on teaching people how to ski... That was a challenge!