Steph's Birthday

Well, time flies . . . my birthday was actually on the 19th - Obed and I were going out to dinner at a restaurant 40miles away. They had a live Jazz band and really good food - my sister wanted to take us there, but her plans changed. So we thought we'd try to find it anyway. . . . All was going well until we were about just a couple of miles away, when we heard a strange noise from under the hood of the car . . . and then the engine idled down . . . we were cruising to stop . . . "What was that?" We had been hearing some kind of noises earlier, but had just taken the car to shop to get it checked out and we replaced a bunch of belts, pulleys, etc. Obed called our friend who had worked on the car, "What did you do to our car?" he joked. We found out later that it was the water pump that had burst (or whatever waterpumps do when they break), which in turn had hit the timing belt which threw that off and now needed replacing also . . . a friend of ours happened to be driving by and stopped to pick us up - we were going to the same place to eat, so we had a good evening (except that they had canceled the Jazz). Since I was going to go shopping with my birthday $$ the next day and couldn't because of the car . . . I went shopping online at Old Navy! They had some cute clothes. I'm kinda glad the car broke down the day before - or I would have been out on the side of the road without Obed . . . he's good at fixing problems, calling people to fix problems, etc. so he took care of us. Obed's taking a nap right now - he was working long hours all week to get all the video stuff done for Open House, TV show, dance trailer, testimonies, etc. . . he's tired. Until next time . . .

Open House

This weekend we had our annual Open House - lots of busy-ness all week long, but everything seemed to run fairly smoothly. I believe we had a little over 1200 people come visit. There are booths set up in the school classrooms, tours available in the afternoon, then a free steak dinner with local entertainment from the church. This year the 4-5 year old little girls in dance class did a performance for part of the show - they were so adorable! There will be a dance recital coming up (Nov. 17th). Obed made a trailer to advertise for them. He was working on formatting it to upload to the blog. My sister and her boss have been working on some fudge recipes - they're going to open a little fudge shop and call it "Charlie's Chocolate Factory". It's awesome! They sold their fudge for the first time during the Open House and it was a huge success—they got their first wholesale offer. We had two baby goats in the 4H room and Mark told me to put some pampers on them so they could run around the room without soiling on the carpet—everyone enjoyed seeing them in diapers! They had to have their diapers changed a couple of times, but they didn't seem to mind. =) It was fun, but boy was everyone tired when the night was over.

Sugar Gliders..the Movie