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Hume

Last weekend we had a real great chance to head up to Hume Lake for some family time.  Bree’s Brother, Sean was graduating from the Joshua Wilderness Institute, which is an intense 9-month College discipleship program run by Hume Lake Christian Camp.  Bree and I are actually alumni from Joshua; we both attended and graduated from the ’05-’06 class. The JWI is designed to help college aged young adults take 9-months out of life their busy hectic lives to truly lean how to draw close to the Lord (without distractions) and understand His calling on they’re lives.

Joshua Wilderness Institute Building in Winter

Along side of Sean’s celebration, we celebrated a rather large milestone.  We celebrated Bree’s mom’s 50th b-day!  She thought we were just there for the weekend from Sean grad…  but to her surprise, we were there for close to a week!  Not only that, but all of her children were there as Bree’s older brother, Ryan, drove down from Idaho with his wife and child!  That was very important because with Bree’s parents being missionaries, we don’t get to have them in the states but every 3-4 years. Needless to say, it was a blast!

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Our Holiday through the lens!

To start off the holidays, we drove down to San Diego to visit Bree’s family! We hung out on the beach, played disc golf on a golf course, and then drove to Apple Valley for the Trostrud Family Thanksgiving!

Then we got into the Christmas mood by heading over to the infamous Deacon Dave’s on our way to get a Christmas Tree.

We ended up celebrating three Christmas mornings!
Christmas #1: We flew down to San Diego to enjoy Christmas with the Bree’s family! It was the first time in 6 years that all the kids were together for Christmas because Mom and Dad are missionaries to Papua New Guinea. They are home on furlough for one year.
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Christmas #2: We had our first “at home” Christmas morning at our little home this year! It was wonderful. That afternoon, Pete’s mom and little brother came over and we all went to see the new Alvin and the Chipmunks.

Christmas #3: On December 27th we headed over to Pete’s folks for an Ammerman family Christmas morning! Christmas was late at the Ammerman household because Dad is a pilot and had to fly on Christmas day. After a great moringing we held the annual Gingerbread house competition!
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New years was great as Bree’s parents drove up from San Diego and we spent a few days together! We played lots of cards and checked out Avatar in 3D. We all watched the Times Square Ball drop with my Pete’s mom at their home!

We had VERY blessed holiday full of joy and fellowship!

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Fishin’ the Delta

Pete has had the opportunity a couple times now to go and hang out with his good friend, “Stan-the-Man” on his fishing boat out on the delta!  We pick up strippers while trolling the banks. Fun FUN times!