... always makes them feel safer because they can't see the storm as good from the basement. Friday evening Joe and sons Benjamin and Joseph went fishing nearby. They caught some bluegill and perch. Joe thinks going fishing for awhile after a ...

... Daughter Loretta had her 9th birthday on July 1, which we celebrated in the evening with chocolate cake and ice cream. Son Benjamin will have this 10th birthday on July 14. Since they are both July birthdays we decided to take both of them into town ...

Sons Benjamin, 9, and Joseph, 6, are home from school today. I debated on whether or not I should send them this morning. They had only ...

... weekend. We had to take the buggy through some good-sized snow drifts on our way to church. My husband Joe and sons Benjamin and Joseph stayed home while the five girls, Kevin, and I went to church. Joe is still not feeling well so I didn ...

... bundled up and enjoyed the evening riding through the snow. We adults spent the evening playing games and visiting. Son Benjamin keeps asking when we can go back there to go sledding again. He really enjoyed the fast sled rides through the fields ...

... balance on the ice while carrying the egg basket. About 10 out of the 35 eggs made it to the house without being broken. Son Benjamin has a big swollen lip and a bloody nose from falling face first on the ice. My husband Joe put salt down, but it didn ...

... The boys shoveled a path from the barn to the house last night. This morning everything was snowed shut again. But son Benjamin said "I think I can find the same path we had last night to start over again." Even with the deep snow the horses ...

... oven and saw her surprised before I had it frosted and candles put in. Friday we will take daughter Verena, 11, and son, Benjamin, 9, to the hospital to have surgery done to remove their tonsils and adenoids. Verena's tonsils are so enlarged ...

The tonsil surgeries of daughter Verena, 11, and son Benjamin, 9, were a success. But now comes the pain after the surgery. The doctor did a very nice job in doing the surgery and the nurses ...

Daughter Verena, 11, and son Benjamin, 9, went back to school today. This is their first day back ... cheese, coffee, grape juice, coffee, pie and cake. Our son Benjamin always likes when Uncle Solomon comes to visit. He likes to ...