2021. 10 Qestions to muse on.

 Happy New Year to everyone that is reading this :)

An extended family member shared these questions with us; They come from a book that Don Whitney wrote.

1. What’s one thing you can do this year to increase your enjoyment of God?

2. What’s an impossible prayer you can pray?

3. What’s the most important thing you could do to improve your family life?

4. In which spiritual discipline do you most want to make progress this year?

5. What’s the single biggest time-waster in your life, and how can you redeem the time?

6. What’s the most helpful new way you could strengthen your church?

7. For whose salvation will you pray most fervently this  year?

8. What’s the most important way, by God’s grace, you will try to make this year different from last?

9. What one thing could you do to improve your prayer life this year?

 10. What single thing can you plan to do this year that will matter most in ten years? In eternity?

What question resonated with you the most?

May we be encouraged to walk with the Savior.

What question resonated the most with you?  I

Our Life Recently

 

A few snapshots from the last few weeks! 

                                                

 

Some family pictures! Two are from Father's day, and one is from JoAnna's birthday meal!

        

 

Some of the family harvesting corn!

                                                       

 

This little man is almost 4 months old now!

                                       

 

Blueberry picking! 

                                       

 

A picture I took on one of our family walks!

                                         

 

Liz had a birthday in July! (No, there wasn't snow in July! That's just an old picture!)

                 

 

JoAnna's birthday was in June, while we were visiting Matt!

                                      

 

We were able to hang out with Matt and Reuben a few months ago and went for a fun hike! 

         

 

These are from my trip to Texas. On the way back, I met up with some of my family at Emily's house and we had fun hanging out with each other! Also above, once I got back from Texas I had some great quality time with my cousin!

 

 

Some sunsets!

                                                                       

 

Pictures from Liz and Esther's birthday's in July!
 

                                  

 

A few pictures from our fourth of July! Mom with her mom and sisters, some kids on a scavenger hunt set up by Liz and Caleb getting in some target practice!

 

 

Grandpa Mitton is turning 90 this month! Praying that the borders will open up soon so Dad can go visit him!

 

 Making applesauce! One day the rain almost stopped us but we found a way to keep going!

 

 

Pictures from a family walk!

                                                          

 

We visited Ben and Emily in June and had a fun day at the beach!

                         

 

Pictures from my time in Texas! I was part of the photography team, which was a lot of fun and a great learning experience! 

 

When we were visiting Matt we took a walk on this really cool bridge downtown! 

             

 

Liz finished her work at the care center as she is starting college and in her short amount of off time before college started, she was able to visit Ben, Emily, Cedric, Spartan, Matt and some cousins!

 

A few more random selfies from the last while! One of those was from the final Bible Bee meeting! We all took the qualifying test and JoAnna made it to Nationals! She placed 53, and we are all super excited for her! 

 

I took Esther out to Caribou when she turned 13 (!!!!) in July!

                       

 

More sunsets taken by different family members!

                                       

 

These are all from my trip to Texas! It was fun running into a few Bible Bee people and catching up with them as well as making new friends! Also above are a few pictures I took of some of the other photography team members! 

 

Dad and Mom took us that did the Bible Bee out for a celebratory meal after it finished! 

          

 

More Texas pictures!!

                                                               

 

And finally! We had a fun night making smore's and playing some ultimate frisbee in honor of two friends birthdays!

Update blog post!

So I have not blogged in awhile! And I’m not very good at it so this is just gonna be one huge blog post with like the last year all combined into one post! Warning! This could get very long! 

These pictures are going to be very out of order...just how they uploaded and after trying to fix it for a while I gave up. In February, Rachel and Elizabeth traveled with Angelé down to SD. To visit Ben Emily and Cedric and so that Matt and and Angelé could get their engagement pictures done. Here is Rachel and Cedric doing some baking together! 

                                            Caleb and I when our family went and watched 'Overcomer'.

On Thanksgiving day, we found out that we were going to be getting another nephew/grandson! We were pretty excited to say the least!

                       Cedric enjoys playing with the many cars he finds at Grandma and Grandpa's house!

                                               Elizabeth and Miriam enjoyed some quality cousin time!

Earlier this year Reuben had surgery on his neck and while he was recovery, Liz took some time to visit him!

In January we went skiing with some friends!

We were able to visit the Ark this year, as the National Bible Bee Finals was held there. Mom, Rachel and Dad are in front of it in this picture!

Rachel and Priscilla during petunia planting this year!

On our trip to the Black Hills, back in September, we had a breakdown, which led to this ^ as we waited for the tow truck!

JoAnna and I went on a sister date to DQ and enjoyed a nice long walk/conversation!

Liz and Emily on our Black Hills trip!

Family picture at Bible Bee!

Rachel and I with the Ark in the background!

We toured the capital building of Bismark on our way to the Black Hills, and got a great family picture while there.

Rachel and Esther in a museum in Bismark.

These girls made it through the escape room! (Some of them seem to be quite proud of the accomplishment) (Not pointing any fingers...Esther)

Work around the house!

A family walk on a gorgeous day!

Rachel and JoAnna.

Angele' and I when we visited their family in January.

Rachel, Mom, and I at the Creation Museum.

Another of Reuben and Liz on her trip!

Liz and I on a walk after enjoying some bubble tea at Boba Cottage.

Mom and Dad during one of our hikes in the Black Hills.

Liz, Rachel, and I, on a mini adventure...not really an adventure, but we went down a lot of back roads before finding what we were looking for!

The ice cream JoAnna and I enjoyed on our walk...seriously, if you haven't had the peanut butter sundae, you should definitely try it.

Rachel was a judge at Bible Bee, once again. Here she is with a few of her fellow judges.

Caleb and I at a hockey game for his birthday!

Liz has been keeping busy with work, being and EMT and the college courses she is taking.

Rachel and Esther on a sister caribou date!

Liz!

JoAnna and I! I believe this picture was taken right after Bible Bee finals finished!

Rachel and I.

And another one of us...singing some songs together!

After we finished petunia planting, we had some time to kill, so we went to the docs and enjoyed some sibling time!

Dutch Blitz at Bible Bee is a MUST! This was one of the many times of us playing with some friends!

All the younger girls convinced Dad to join them in a game...and I must say it was quite comical to watch!

Cari, Caleb and I.

(If you couldn't tell, I was kinda really tired.)

More games at Bible Bee!

Liz, Rachel and I enjoying a meal with these beautiful ladies!

Fun selfies with Angele.

Cari and I at Bible Bee

Waiting for our tour to start at the capital building.

Some fun times with cousins at Caribou!

Abbi and I waiting for the Bible Bee semi-finalists announcements to start!

JoAnna and I doing some quizzing for Bible Bee!

Angele, Rachel, and Liz on their SD trip!

Meet Spartan Alexander!!!! Ben looks like a pretty happy daddy to me!

After a long day of work, Liz and Esther enjoyed some sister time during a meal at Bec's.

A first look at the Ark with all the fun lights!

More Dutch Blitz!

Cari joined us in the bus to the Ark!

Rachel with some of her Bible Bee friends!

And yes! Our nephew is already one month old! Time sure flies!

Bet you can't guess what game we're playing!

These girls having fun times at Caribou!

Rachel with most of the Bible Bee judges she worked with!

Fun family walk, while in Bismark!

Our family with a few cousins (and Uncle Doug) at Mount Rushmore.

A picture I took of JoAnna and some flowers the other day!

Cedric and I, one of the times he came to visit us.

Mom has been working hard on our woods the last few years, and I love walking through them! Here is a picture Liz took on one of her walks!

Liz and Cedric!

JoAnna and Rachel with a friend they visited in Canada.

Esther and Rachel

A picture I took during a walk at Bible Bee.

Smile!!

So that's all for now! I hope y'all enjoyed seeing a little bit of what we've been doing during the last while! And I will try to keep you updated a little more than I have been!