Belated-- Back from Break

As you probably already know, we were able to go home for 2 weeks for Christmas break. If you didn’t get a chance to read the story of our adventure back to Montana, you can read it here or scroll down to our previous post.

We had a great time getting to be with family and enjoy the Christmas traditions that we missed out on last year. Here are some highlights—

Decorating gingerbread houses with the Davies/Jarvis kids

We had Christmas Eve with the Shevenell Clan

Christmas Morning with the Davies/Jarvis Squad (some of whom weren’t quite awake)

Christmas Afternoon reunited with the Shevenell Clan for a trip to see the extended family (who didn’t make it into any pictures…it was a big group)

In the week following Christmas Jesse participated in Naomi’s study on the effect of ice baths on inflammation, which included Jesse doing a 40-minute downhill run followed by a 20-minute ice bath (in water that really was 0^oC).

Brent kept him company to keep his mind off the pain.

We were welcomed back to Montana with three major events:

First, my laptop died only a few hours after our arrival. Our homework is done completely online, so living without a computer isn’t a very real option. I lived in the library for a week until our insurance money came through (Praise God for insurance! YAY!) and...

TA-DA! Picked up my new laptop yesterday. This is also my excuse for not having updated since coming back from New Hampshire. I was a bit out of sorts for a few days there.

Next, we studied FOUR books this past week. (I really did LIVE in the library). We covered 1 & 2 Peter, Jude, and 1 John. This coming week we’ll be doing the Gospel of John, which is the first large book we’ve done since Luke…which was sometime way back in November or something. We’re expecting to feel a wee bit stressed pulling ourselves back into things.

The third event that welcomed us back to Montana was…Welcome to Montana night! 

The first Friday of each new quarter, the base puts on this huge dinner (usually super awesome burgers and such) for the whole base, and everybody dresses up in Montana-wear, and there are competitions between all the schools (this time we had tug of war and a hideous game in which someone had an egg duct-taped to their forehead and someone else tried to break the egg by swatting at them with a dead fish. Mm. It looked pretty gross. THEN after dinner a guy comes and teaches everyone to square dance! It’s a super fun night and a great start to a new quarter. Here we go!