almost a year

Here it is Jan. of 2010 what a ride it has been. We have been here almost a year and we have had an interesting time. We have seen older students leave and new ones come, we have some getting married and some dating. Activities are interesting, from camping in a place so dark you can see tomorrow coming two hours before time.
Learning to cook here, or eat here has been fun and a challenge. I think we have gotten a good dutch oven potato dish down, the kids at the college seem to like them. The peppers and chili's are a different story, red or green chili, mexibell peppers, green, red, orange bell peppers, and a host of others I don't know how to spell. Bean's, rice and bean's, true corn bread, brisket of beef, and some make real pecan pie just like my grandma did.
Oh and the fresh home made salsa, hang on to your hat if your from the north with those bland taste buds, it is a real kick. Learning what to have served on the side and what you can take in full dose is a trick when I don't even know what the menu list on it.
Learning that rock squirrel's love tomato's, deer will leave your corn alone, and potato's don't grow well here, chili's do.
We have meet some of the most wonderful people here, people on the track where we walk, in the stores, streets, college suppers, at church, and on hikes in the mountains.
We would have missed it all if we wouldn't have walked out the door with a faith that it could be done.
We have truly been blessed. We have love all the letter's we have received, phone calls, and visit's by family.
We will be home in a minute.
Love Larry

Christmas

We thought that we would also like to share a little bit of Christmas with you so here is to the wonderful children we have and to the great extended family that we call ours.

Here it is 2010. We have been gone eleven months now and only seven more to go it hardly seems like it has been that long. Marsha and Brian came down for Christmas hopping to have some warmer weather, It snowed the Tuesday before and was not warm while they were here. Today it is going to the forty's and so far a lite wind.
Yesterday we went exploring and took a dirt road just out of town to the west and headed up the mountain. Wow you would not believe the houses that were up there. It is kind of like that in this area one only knows that there are house's over the hill by the mail box's that are out by the road.
We did have fun with Marsha and Brian taking them to the old down town area and a taste of the local ambiance, art stores, antique shops, door fronts, and the inhabitants of the down town area. We also got to show them the deer that have been around the yard all year. The deer came with in a few feet of the back door and browsed on some of the bushes that were there. I don't mind that as long as they leave the garden alone in the summer.
It was great to talk to so many of you over the Christmas holidays and to receive so many cards and letters. We missed each of you but know this is where we should be for the time being.
We talked to Josh and it was great to hear his voice he will be home soon, if we could just find out the date of his release.
We will seen you soon
Love Dad.