Brrrr! It's.... cold?

A cold front came in this week and the temperature dropped, today the high is 68 degrees!!! lol I like it though, it feels a little more like November. Yesterday the town put up the Christmas decorations in the circle. They have taken tacky to a new level. See picture. This week in class we finished Romans and Nehemiah. On Tuesday we helped with another Habitat For Humanity house. We nailed in the plywood outer walls and got the roof trusses up. On Wednesday evening, Cross Connections, our new adult ministry at the church, we talked about raising children. We handled it differently than what you might expect. Katy, Bryan and I shared about our experiences growing up. We answered questions like "How are some ways your parents prepared you for life?" "What kind of punishment did you receive?" "How did your parents influence your faith?" and a few others. Several people told us that they appreciated us sharing from our different viewpoints. I enjoyed taking a look back on growing up and my parents. I really appreciate all that they have done for me and the sacrifices they have made and how they have raised me. I have to say that they did a pretty good job. ;-) This week we also helped Pastor Randy out by putting up some more fence around his pool (still going from our first job here) and Travis and I dug around a broken sewer line in his backyard. It was pretty tough. On Friday I went to Morgan and her sister Paige's rodeo. It was pretty cool, and a little cold, like late season night games in high school. Morgan participated in team roping (one ropes the head, one ropes the back legs), breakaway (roping a steer from your horse), goat tying (galloping up to the goat, jumping off, slamming it into the groud and tying 3 legs together), barrels (racing around 3 barrels without knocking them over), and poles (weaving in and out of 8 poles). I also saw some teen bull riding. I didn't get back till 3:30 in the morning, but I had a good time. Today I got mom's Amish postcard and cookies and the Kaylor's card :) Thank you very much. Both Mrs. Brewer and Christina said that they would make shoo-fly pie with the recipe mom sent me, so that is exciting. No one here has ever heard of a whoopie-pie though, I need a recipe for that next.
Well, for Thanksgiving I will eat at the Brewer's and then the Michaud's. They are some great families in the church. On Black Friday we are planning on going to the... hehehe... beach, but I will have to do some shopping that day too, I am hoping that there is a good mall or something wherever we go. Okay, how about some pictures.