Ferewell Pastor

Yesterday was Pastor Sharp's last day with St. Peter Lutheran Church and Zion Lutheran Church. He has been our Pastor for 9 years. I was a senior in high school. He came to us right out of seminary. He married Scott and I and also baptized both of the girls. He was a very special pastor and will be truly missed. We wish him well on his new calling and pray that the transition to a new pastor will go smoothly.

The girls' last children's serman. (Well, Chey's, Cheryl doesn't usually go up there)

Pastor and Christy are moving to Illinois where Pastor has accepted a call.

Our church does a Streets of Bethlehem presentation every 2 years and Pastor was always the Rabi. One of our members asked him to perform one last time.

Ron and Kevin put on a little skit because they were 2 of the first 3 people that Pastor met and Pastor asked if there was something in the water because all 3 of them are bald. That made an impression when they met so they wanted to make one when he left!

The farewell speech.

Thank you Pastor

Where's Chey?

One night I believe it was after a basketball game I was getting Cheryl ready for bed and then went to get Cheyenne and this is where I found her.

Yes, she's under the end table!

It was quite fun getting a sleeping child out from under the end table!
Kids do the darndest things!

28 inches!

On the news this morning they said that west of Pratt got 28 inches of snow! I haven't heard the total for Lyons or Rice County but I think Great Bend and Hutch got around 14 inches so I'm sure that's about what we got. To make it worse the snow was blowing so bad that the drifts were huge! Scott couldn't even park at our house when he got home from work this morning. He could go down the alley but couldn't get in the driveway and he couldn't park in the street because of drifts. He parked by the grocery store and walked home. He was freezing and soaking wet. It was noon before he got home because his relief didn't get there until late and then they told him to take 56 to get to Lyons but when he did and got to Ellinwood, it was closed so he had to go back to Hwy. 4 and take it to Hwy. 14 to get home. He has to go back in at 5! It'll be a short day at home for him. There have been stories of several people getting stuck and having to stay in their vehicles until someone could get them out. It's crazy! I don't know why they would try to drive in it! I don't plan on leaving the house. Well, we might go play in the snow when the girls wake up! I finally found a different memory card and took some pictures.

Our alley and driveway.

Can you see how deep it is?

The drift is up to the mirror on my car.

I know of a couple weddings that were planned for today and I think one of them was postponed until tomorrow! Who would have thought we'd have this much snow the end of March! Guess March is going out like a lion!

Snow Day

It's snowing and blowing here today. Actually it's blizzard like conditions and we could get up to 9 inches! I decided not to drive the 42 miles to work today. I'm glad I didn't go, we've got a few inches already but it's blowing like crazy! I took a picture of it but when I put my memory card in my computer to get the pictures off, it said there was an error and now there are no pictures. My other memory card is full and I don't want to try it in the computer incase it erases it too. I'm hoping to get caught up on laundry and housework. I did take a nap with Cheryl too! I've been working a lot lately and only having Sundays off so it was nice to have a day to just stay home. I'm hoping to post a few more blogs that today that I started a month or so ago. I know I'm not going outside! Stay tuned!

I took a picture with my phone! It's getting deeper!