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Wed. Dec. 23rd Afternoon. :-) It's been snowing here steady since this morning. But it's not that cold, hanging around -8 C or +7 f. And no wind to speak of. :-)
Last night we went to the Youth Banquet at 6:30 pm...we went caroling for 45 min. or so before we ate. Afterwards we spread around the church talked to different people then Brad read the story of Christ's birth from Luke and afterwards we talked some more then people started leaving. We got home around 9:45. It was interesting being there. There were a few kids who don't usually come to Youth and they hadn't come for the fellowship or being with friends..... unfortunately. :-( So it ended up not being as good as most Youth evenings. I just hope that those of us who are Christians were an example an not a stumbling block to them. :-)
Dad, Mom, Sara, Lydia and Jesse went to Yorkton yesterday as well. Dad needed to pick up some different gears from the Sawmill and Mom needed to do shopping. Jesse bought himself a bow, I think it's a Mathew's but I'm not positive he's pretty happy with it. :-) Lydia picked up some new pillows and a set of sheets since hers' are wearing thin.
So there's nothing really exciting happening here. :-) Kind of boring right now, but that could always change.
Hannah


29th..... Martha's birthday went well... she received books, coffee and a mug along with a chocolate bar, Dad and Mom ordered her a set of sheets that have a wild horse theme and those should be coming soon. :-)
It's been hanging around 0 f, little above during the day. Yesterday was really nice out, sunny and barely any wind. I walked down to the main grid road, Lydia and Martha had taken couple horses out for a short ride and I met them coming back.
We seemed to have come in contact with a cold.... Cilla spends a lot of her time coughing at night. I have a slight sore throat and my ears hurt a little, hopefully I can get over it be Sunday since we want to do some special music. We're signed up for another show at the Hospice on the 8th of Jan. so we'll be practicing that soon. With the colds we aren't feeling to energetic to be playing or singing. :-)
Dad was able to get the gear box back together for the sawmill and he's done some cutting in the past couple days. I don't know how much work he's been doing on the bunk house, but it sounds like it wont be done till summer or next fall, depending on how much priority he puts on it. :-)
Peter and Gabrielle came up for Sunday and they came to our place for Dinner and stayed till 7:00 or so. Gabrielle is doing fairly good. She couldn't laugh much and by the time they were heading out she was looking really tired. I hope we didn't wear her out to badly. There's always so much going on around here that it's hard not to get tired even if you're not having to heal from surgery a couple weeks back. Thanks for the prayers for her. I know she appreciates them. :-)
Happy New Years.
Hannah

Dec. 4th.... Naomi's and mine special song was good. We made a couple people sniffle and lots of people thanked us for singing something so touching. :-) I love being able to touch peoples hearts through song. I can't witness or encourage very well by just talking, for some reason I'm always sticking my foot in my mouth, but in gospel song I can sing without wondering if I'm going to be making many mistakes or tripping someone up. :-)
The kids are still fighting their colds so it's just gonna be us 4 older girls playing and singing. Naomi says we're not going to do a set program like we usually do, instead just pick songs from a hymn book and we'll play a few fiddle tunes and waltzes so they can dance if they want to. :-) So it should be a more relaxed show this time. :-)
The weather's been fluctuating some, it was colder (-30 f) for a couple days last week and then it blow in some warmer weather for a day of snow and lots of wind from the south. Now it's above 0 f today. :-)
Have y'all ever heard of Blue Highway? A friend of mine gave me their gospel CD for a birthday present one year. I really like this song that one of them wrote called... I'm Asking You. Hope you enjoy. :-)
Talk to y'all later.
Hannah

Dec. 7th..... well more have fallen sick. Everyone but Naomi and Myself are to sick to sing at the hospice tomorrow. So guess who's going to be doing a duet? :-) I'm sure we'll get through somehow. I'm having to start out a few songs on the banjo.... I wish that Naomi had waited to give me that assignment till I actually knew how to start out a song. :-) Right now all I can do is hit a few chords and away we go. LOL! My vamping is getting better but I'm still doing my open G in-stead of the vamping position. I'm sure it'll come in time. :-)
It's back to cold weather again. We have several things set up for the wood stove in the living-room... Dad used a side of an old combine hopper for the back drop metal and he cut the end off our rain barrel and beat the the metal flat so it fit under (and in front of) the stove. Not classy, but it should work. He's intending to pick up the stove pipe tomorrow and then we'll be putting it all together and hopefully have more warmth in the house. :-)
Naomi, Lydia and I are taking up Mr. (Father) Banga on his request that some of us help do music at the Boys and Girls camp for the month of July this year. We will be paid some for it and that will help us with paying for music camp. Dad will bring us down there at the beginning of July and we'll stay down there till music camp is over. Almost 2 months of being away from home. It will be a good experience for us and for our family to get used to not having all of us older girls around. The younger kids will have to take on some of the chores that we were doing at their age.... like weeding the garden. :-) But Mom has encouraged us to go since she wants to work on the kids and not have so many older kids around. :-)
Oh and a wonderful answer to prayer we found a orthodontist so Naomi, Lydia and myself can get braces at about half the price we could have gotten them in the US. Dad and Mom weren't really hip on us getting braces before now, even when we were living in Melville but they've decided to let us get braces and they also are going to help pay for them! You will have to imagine our thankfulness that we are allowed to get braces and an added blessing on top that our parents are willing to help us pay for them, besides taking the time to drive us to the orthodontist. :-) God does move in mysterious ways. :-)
Hopefully I can post this tomorrow..... :-) Sorry it's been a bit long since I've had a chance to post, somethings went wrong and we didn't have the gas to drive over the neighbors to do any net things. :-)
Hannah