Butchering, working and caroling!

Yesterday was full of activity- first off, we had a cow delivered to our house in the morning and butchered it... the Chupps and some Pratts came over to help and we got it quartered before lunch time...

Dad, skinning the beef...

Don Chupp helped for a couple hours.

...and KK watched :)

After that we headed over to the roof job...

Unfortunately the sun was too soon in setting... we had to hurry to get done.

The boys worked hard but we only got metal on the porch roof...

Once 5:30 rolled around we packed up and went back into Griswold for some caroling!

We had our big dump trailer hitched up to our truck and lined the edges with hay bails. Almost everyone from church came, so we all packed in there and drove around, stopping at various friends' homes and singing for them. I won't say we sounded really good, but I think people were blessed by the old fashioned caroling! Wherever we stopped, we gave people cookies and tracts.

After singing and freezing, we got back to church and enjoyed hot chocolate, coffee and tea :) We had some good fellowship and went home with full hearts...

Tonight we're having an early Christmas celebration at Gram's house... Ry and Kels are going out to NE for Christmas day, so we're doing our celebration with them early. I'm looking forward to it; family gatherings are always so fun.

Well, it's almost time to leave for church, so I'd better close :)

God's blessings to you all!

-nate