WOW...

What a year it was!!!

• we got older
• some grew taller
• some grew wider
• some successfully attempted to grow somewhat slimmer
• Cam was layed off for two weeks (but worked the rest of the year!!!)
• Shann worked in the greenhouses for the last year (sadness!)
• Shann graduated from Davenport University
• the girls finished 6th, 4th and 1st grade
• we spent the 4th of July in the U.P.
• Shann started her job at Metro Health
• the girls spent a week at camp
• Tate spent a week in Washington DC
• 1 baby was born
• the girls started 7th, 5th and 2nd grade
• teeth were lost
• teeth grew in
• construction was completed on the Nienhuis cabin
• Cam and Shann celebrated 13 years
• there was much hunting...and much fishing
• we battled many a mouse
• we spent much time with family and friends
• we were loved
• we loved
• we stressed (some more than others)
• we laughed (a lot)
• we cried
• we took steps forward
• we took steps backward
• and...through it all we did our best to trust Gods plan for our lives

And now...we look forward with great excitement
to what the Lord has in store for us in 2009!!

Happy New Year to you and yours!!!