About the Stouffers

We’ve opened up an “About” page now, so that you can get to know the Stouffers a little bit better.

Presbytery 2009

This year our church was privileged to host the denomination’s annual presbytery meeting. At times the planning, preparation and work was stressful, but the event went exceedingly well, friends were reunited and made and everyone was greatly encouraged to fellowship, dance, eat, and worship with like-minded believers from across these United States. It was an incredible blessing for our family to be able to not only meet these friends but to host and minister to them in this way. Countless memories were made the past week or so and I’ve only scratched the surface in my mind trying to recount everything, so I’m afraid this first post will be mainly pictures, and mostly of Day 1 because for some reason our photographer was otherwise engaged during the rest of the weekend.

If you’re a blog reader who attended the event and also has pictures, please comment and link to yours.  Enjoy.

Click here to see our photo album.

Should we build an ark?

Today we were subject to a large rainstorm. There is water coming out of places we’ve never seen and the creek has risen close to three feet in depth and much farther than that in width in some places. If you’ve never been here the pictures probably won’t suffice, but here you go anyway.

The chickens and sheep were involuntarily relocated. The water rose above the egg boxes, according to a report I received.

Thats the driveway, er, was, and that ditch normally is bone dry, whereas now we have another creek!

A Post

Recently we had the privilege of celebrating Camille’s 13th birthday (I can’t believe it either). She wanted to go ice skating, which we did, however, we weren’t able to take many pictures while doing so. We did manage to get some good ones later at the Bicentennial Park in downtown Nashville.

Daniel and me exploring some random stage, with the Capitol building and part of the Nashville skyline in the background.

Walking through the fountains, and reading the quotes on the marble-y wall.

Impromptu group shot. Doesn’t appear that many of us knew what was happening, then BOOM, the camera hits.

I’ll close with the only picture we got last night of an incredibly enjoyable evening. I think this shot was about 9:30, just after laughing uproariously due to a random burst into the singing of nursery rhymes. Included in the picture are myself, Jacob, the other Chris, Daniel, Kyle, Caleb, Laura, Tricia Ann, and Kaliste.

I’m a little teapot, short and stout

Here is my handle, here is my spout

When I get all steamed up, hear me shout

Just tip me over and pour me out!

Garden ‘09

This year’s garden is much bigger than last years!

An unusual happening!

Yesterday afternoon, we saw Daniel walking down the road with what looked like a dead chicken. We were surprised to see that it was actually a dead Crane!

Some of us have thought it would be fun to have a blog in the cats’ point of view, so we’ve opened a new blog for that purpose.  Go check it out!

The Cat Chat

~Caroline~

Busy, Busy, Busy

Sorry we have not posted in a long time. It has been busy, busy, busy this week. We have been doing lots of school and stuff like that. The boys put up a fence to hold the pigs in for them to till up the ground. We have also been doing garden planning for this year. I’ll try to keep you updated later.

Caroline

Merry Christmas!

I hope you all have a Merry Christmas!

Musings

Is anyone still reading?  Our blogmanship has clearly taken a dive, but not because we’re indifferent.  Life is busy and priorities shift.  The pendulum swings. But, we’re still here.

So…as of December 1, we are all fine and well.  The guys have put much effort into the retail store and it is beginning to take hold and take off.  That’s good news.  School is going well and we’re making solid progress.  A frustrating algebra problem here and there causes my blood pressure to spike, but overall, discussing Egypt, the first known civilization, reading about Moses and Aaron, and learning about apostrophes makes every day exciting (and a huge thanks to Caleb who saved the day today when he solved an algebra problem that had me stumped!).

Chris is preparing for another college exam which will give him 21 hours of credit.  He’s contemplating his future and praying about where God wants him.

Young men + driver’s license = another spike in mother’s blood pressure.  I’ve only screamed once and it was legitimate.  That’s all I’m going to say.

Girls are enjoying life as they practice piano, sing harmony, play the violin and recorder, cook, read, and work on school.  They are forever busy and always looking for a project.

As December rolls in much too quickly, we think of the end of the year and how God has blessed us in 2008.  He has provided and guided every step of the way.  We also think of advent and God’s fulfillment of His promise — a Savior.   We hope to focus on this season through simplicity and uncluttered agendas.

~ Christy