The diagnosis is we are all farts.

     Today I woke up in one of those moods where it would have probably been better had I not gotten up at all. Royally crabby. I think it started cuz Kylah and I kind of accidentally got up this morning. We were thinking of slacking a bit because it was really cold and we could have both used a morning off and decided to just decide in the morning if we were getting up or not. Wellllllll there was a lot of mis-communications and we both ended up getting up even though it turns out niether of us wanted to. We arrived late to a random service group (we still aren't actually assigned to one yet so we go where we want haha). To put it the most positive way we can we finished a territory this morn! Then due to cold, mean ppl, car issues, and still my general crabbiness, our group (Kylah, Amber, Kent...eth, and I) cut out early and made breakfast and watched movies. Totally needed cuz at this point Kylah got crabby too haha. This morning was a day of stupid/down right mean people.
     It ended most excellent though. We went over (well actually we invited ourselves over) to Jason and Kristen's place....as we are making it our new custom. Had a lovely dinner and even better company. We ended up playing "therapist" for hours. HI-larious!! My fav was when we decided that our issue was that we were all a fart lol. Took quite a bit to solve that one ; ) I was thinking to myself as a group of us were randomly dancing in the elevator like the weirdos we really are, how funny it is I was concerned moving here that we'd be a bit much for the cong. Here's how it is though, pretty much everyone here is seriously weird/quirky/"unique" the fun part is everyone owns up to it and embraces it. Makes it kind of a lovely fit ; )
     Well I've so got to hit the hay so I don't wake up a total crab again haha. But here's a couple pix from the week.

     Jeanine and I actually are wearing masks too....ours were just clear, like for real, not even pulling your leg. And clearly I didn't get the memo to stick out my tongue.

     We stopped by the Dark family to help them build an ice castle! How cool is that?? I'll be sure to try and get pix of it complete, we're even gonna attach an ice slide!! Heck yes!!
Tata for now! Nothing but love for ya ; )

Let the good times keep on rollin'

Hello my blogger followers :) Thanks for sticking with us. We appreciate it.

We've been keeping ourselves busy up here, that's for sure.

First things first. Why are we making this face you may ask yourself?

Well, I'll tell you why. It's because of our local needs last week. Wanna know what it was?

US!

Ahhhhhhhhhh!

A brother interviewed us for ten minutes and warned...eh hmm...I mean introduced us - to the congregation.

I thought it was super sweet. We felt honored, that's for sure.

But we made it through the whole thing. He asked us questions like how we got the truth, why we started to pioneer, why we decided to move here, and how we feel about things so far.

I feel like it was good for the congregation to hear because they're really trying to encourage others in the hall to do more for the ministry - consider pioneering especially. 

So it was really awesome for them to hear how we've overcome various challenges and stuck to Jehovah the whole time. Especially Abby. I was so proud of her. She bared her soul to the whole audience and I think it was super super encouraging for people to hear because a lot of people struggle with similar things. It's always nice for people to hear that they're not the only ones out there. We gotta all stick together :)

Friday we were invited over to a family's house for dinner which was awesome! They made great food for us and the company was wonderful of course.  The couple had they're 4 year old grandson visiting and the kid was HILARIOUS! He was super quick/witty. He didn't make any sense half the time, but he always had an answer for everything. For instance, I said "Zach, you are very entertaining. Do you know what that means?" and his quick response was "Yep. It means I finished my sandwich." 

For real. We could not stop laughing. Okay, maybe it's not funny to you. It's probably one of those had to be there moments. But here's a cute pic I caught. Zach kept grabbin Abby's hand and continued eating like nothing was going on....

This weekend was the first time I've left Woodruff since we've moved here. Crazy, right?! I know Abby mentioned it before, but seriously, we're the two biggest "social butterflies" in the land. And the whole time I was gone, I kept thinking about home and how everything was going here. Don't get me wrong, we had a great time. We (excluding Abby because she has no appreciation for performing arts) went to a production of Les Miserables that the Wausau high school put on and it was AMAZING! Those kids blew my mind. They were so so so good. Then last night we had a Grammy's party and that was a lot of fun too. The whole weekend was full of music, fun, and best of all, friends. We got to know old ones better, and met knew ones that we adore just as much now. It was really a great time. 

Lately I feel like I'm in a spiritual paradise and it rocks. It makes me look forward to the real deal. But I'm glad I have what I do now. I kinda love life :)

~Kylah Joy

Sleepyhead

     Must've  been something in the water last night. I couldn't fall alseep for the life of me. Turns out Kylah couldn't either. So we ended up watching a documentary (go figure) at like 4 in the morning. Needless to say (but Ima say it anyway) we didn't get up for early morning service. We did however go out til 1 on 2 hours of sleep, I think maybe it was a good thing I didn't find anyone home because who knows what I would've done or said on such little sleep! Turns out Dave and Amy couldn't sleep either! So all of us were a bit slap happy in service. At one point we were trying to create a language of whistles and snaps. Then I was reminded of the time Jamin (my bro) and I decided to try and create a language solely with facial expressions. We did this so we could still "talk" during the bookstudy. We were such rebels : P Rebels that looked as though we had some major facial muscle control issues to say the least.....hmmmm. That was a bit random. Remember, I'm blogging on very very little sleep. Brace yourselves. Oh speaking of little sleep, Kylah has hit a slap happy wall. We were watching a show and outta nowhere she just starts cracking up. So I look at her waiting for and explanation and she just laughs harder. Finally all she says is "I'm hilarious!!" And at that moment I was tired enough to believe it and laugh along for no known reason. Oh sleep deprivation.

 So Saturday we had more of an internal ministry day ; ) Meaning we may or may not have gotten coffee and then went and got a delicious breakfast (it was-10)!! SO good! Man, I'm starting to find the little hole in the wall restaurants up here and I'm loving it! We got to work with Tatum, we love her she rocks! And has done an exceptional job making us feel so welcome and flat out spoiling us! And her super awesome kiddo Reed. It was a really really nice morning and beneficial to all of us! Looking forward to many more!....and I'm not at all opposed if they occasionally include a super yummy breakfast ;)
     Hey maybe you guys can help me out a little here. I'm having a bit of an identity crisis. Am I a nerd?? I'm a quirky dork, I'll own up to that anytime.....but a nerd?? I'm not so sure about that one. Apparently I've been described as "a  great nerd friend." What does that even mean??? Ugh. Woe is me. In the words of a tackling amnesia patient (scrubs, anyone??) "WHO AM I??!!" Haha I'm really not sweating it, but definitely some food for thought. I'm here for one month and that's how I've been described. I mean yeah, I wear glasses and have asthma, but that's almost too cliche.
     Anyways, brace yourself Woodruff, we are doing a huge push for aux pioneers come March! We want to shatter some records and get as many people involved as we possibly can, its gonna be a blast!
     Tomorrow is going to be a long day full of responsible stuff and some fun stuff as well. So I best hit the hay. Got some sleep to catch up on for sure.      My spidey-sense has been tingling a bit lately (It's clearly a spider-man reference...its not nerdy, its clever : P) hope all is well with everyone. Remember, even though there might be a couple extra miles between us, I'm always here....or there if need be.  Nothing but love for you all. Ta-ta for now!

Burnin' Ring O Fire

So here's the cliff hanger Abby left you with last time:

After the Thursday meeting Amy dropped me off at home on her way to bring her Bible study home and as I was getting out she said "Hey, could you put another log on the fire? You can do that, right?" My response "Oh yeah! Sure! No problem!" - idiot.

So I grab a log on my way in and stick it in the fire place and to my dismay - it doesn't fit! Unfortunately, by the time I realize that it's not going to stay in, the stupid log is already on fire! It's like it spontaneously com-busted because I swear it was only in there for like 5 seconds. So I'm holding on to this burning log because it HAS to go in there - it's on fire! So I'm trying to punch it in and move it around and jam it in and the thing just isn't going...as it's half hanging out I pause for a second and think to myself, "Self, this is the part where you die. The whole house is going to go up in flames and I am going to die in a fire because I'm an idiot." Just then, I get a brilliant idea! I took the flamin log out and threw it on the hearth and run into the kitchen to grab a pitcher of water and I throw it on the blasted demon of a log! And then, just to make sure it doesn't reignite itself, I threw it out the window into the snow. Partially as a safety precaution, and also partly because at this point I wanted to dispose of the evidence so I wouldn't have to tell Shmollers I almost burnt their house down.

Clearly, I gave in and confessed my sins. Which was stupid too. Because now none of them trust me with anything. Especially if it involves fire. And now neither will you.