Tuff and Mary: February 2015

I've been on sabbatical from the blog. The past few months we started and completed level 1 of an intensive discipleship program. The program is called Operation Solid Lives (OSL-oslonline.com). As part of the program protocol we were limited to only 2 hours of media time a week, which left no time for a blog update. Check out the link above for OSL if you get the chance. All materials are free and well worth the 5 weeks of disclipline.

Some major news over the new year is our friends from Pittsburgh, the Wright family, moved to Billings, Montana and moved in with us.

Jenny, Matt, baby Eden and Noah.

Noah (4) and Grace (2)

Enjoying the January snow with some sledding.

Tuff is traveling as usual for business and speaking.

Way back in December he traveled to Helena and spoke at the Tribal Relations Training on Success (We don't' have video but Tuff's speech makes its appearance on our local government channel every once and a while). He also traveled to Lame Deer to speak on culture for a special two day conference.

In early January he traveled to Rapid City, South Dakota with Matt and Yas. In Rapid City they met up with multiple Native ministries all working for the same cause.

Yas and Omar (Yas with Arise ministries in California and Omar with New Song as multicultural connections)

Matt's first time to Mount Rushmore.

Tuff turned 32 on January 23rd and on the same day spoke to the middle school students at Lockwood, followed by the next day speaking at New Life Church Winter Retreat.

He got a chance to fly in a private aircraft back in January to Utah for a meeting and took some incredible photos with his cell phone out the window.

Tuff traveled to Bismarck, North Dakota over Super Bowl Sunday and preached at New Song Church for both services Sunday morning. Below is the video to his sermon if you want to watch (starts at minute 29:35):

In the meantime I got to go skiing for a day at Redlodge Mountain February 6th with my friend Jon and Kassia. It hit 70 degrees in Billings that day and was in the 50's on the mountain.

Lunch break with Kassia.

Jon giving Kassia lessons. Kassia is Jon's personal trainer at the YMCA so the tables turned on the mountain.

Proudly sporting my Griz Golf vest from my college days. Who knew it would come in handy skiing.

And of course life with our little beauties is incredible.

Grace dancing with her friend Grace.

Liza's first swim the other night (February 20th).

Valentine's Day sister love.

Jenny made chocolate cupcakes to sell at Ruby's in Crow agency.

Noah and Grace enjoying Valentine pancakes.

Saying goodbye to our friend Amanda. She is moving to South Carolina.

Matching tutus.

Liza (at 6 months old).

Video below is of Liza's first food:

More sister shenanigans.

A video of Grace making Liza squeak and giggle below:

And now for a Christmas update! Christmas almost slipped through the blog update cracks.

My mom (Oma) made Grace and I matching aprons and bought Grace multiple mini baking utensils.