Happy 2017

     Greetings in the name of Jesus Christ.  Happy 2017!  Come on, I am only a month and a half late.  So as you can imagine, life has been busy.  We survived the Christmas season, which already seems like a year ago.  Christmas Eve services were awesome.  We had the three services again at 4, 6, and 9.  Then since Christmas fell on a Sunday this year, we did have a Christmas morning service.  The choir did a cantata to replace the sermon and they did an amazing job with it.  

      Then right after the new year, I took a little vacation time.  My friend got married down in Nebraska and I was a groomsman.  So I took off a few days early to go see some folks in South Dakota.  It was good to catch up with all of them and see them again.  Then I was in Wayne for the wedding and had a blast there.  Then I finished off the trip by swinging down through Omaha to see Ava, JoAnna, and Steven.  Then I hit Adair just for a few hours to see mom and dad before making the long trek back north again.  It was a great week and a nice get away after the holidays.  

       Then I just back from an ice fishing trip with 11 other guys from church.  We went up to the Lake of the Woods on the Canadian border.  We took 8 guys last year for one day of fishing and had a good time.  This year we bumped it up to 12 and stayed for two days of fishing.  We had really good fishing the first day, but then it was super slow the second day.  It is for sure a new yearly tradition though and I look forward to it already.  

       My latest big project has been designing and building the new church website.  Everyone always says,"I didn't know you knew how to do that."  And my answer is always the same, "I don't."  I have learned more about websites and coding and all of it in the past month than I thought I would ever know.  It has been kind of fun, but pretty much every hour I'm not working on something else, I am playing around trying to learn more, finish more of it, or improve what I already have done.  Look for the official release to come right around Ash Wednesday.  

      Other than that, it is still cold and snowing here.  We got four inches of snow yesterday night, and then another three inches yesterday day.  It's always fun to scoop both before you go to work and as soon as you get home again.  I really don't mind though.  The chickens are definitely ready for warmer weather so they can be outside more again.  

     I am going to try to get back into posting more things on here and apologize for the break.  Hopefully a few of you are still checking in once in a while.  Blessings to you and the rest of your 2017.  See perfect bookend theme!