A Warm Sunday in January

It was 28 degrees when I went out to feed but 37 by the time we left for church. Craig Stickling had the message this morning, then Mike Kaisner had the afternoon and after that we had the sending service for Maddie Waibel who is leaving on Wednesday for India. Maddie felt the call to go and feels a love in her heart for these people. When we stepped out of church we were pleasntly surprised to find it was sunny and 50 degrees. WOW how amazing is that for January 5th!
After church we made a quick stop at Aldi as the kids were coming for dinner. Mom invited us all over to her house for dinner which made for a very nice evening. Karin  picked up Nancy and she got to enjoy dinner and some of her great nieces and nephews. Karin and Magda worked with Valiant today and he was VERY up. Karin reported he was springing straight up going airborne with all 4 hooves.  Too bad I wasn't there for pictures.  He was not worked with on Saturday so today had lots of pent up energy.
After dinner we worked on the puzzle Beth Meister gave mom. This year for mom's Christmas card she wanted all the great grandchildren in boats, all 74 of them. Beth (John's wife) had a puzzle made of the Christmas card. The puzzle is huge and I think has over 1000 pieces. Top left corner are Spark and Rhonda's grandchildren, to the right of them are John and Beth's grandchildren, Middle left are some of my grandchildren. Mom, paddle boarding in Gulf Shores is in the middle, to the right of mom are the rest of my grandchildren (they are from Texas so we couldn't get them all in one boat)

Mike and Diane's grandchildren are bottom left, middle are Ruth and Fedi's grandchildren and on Then Beth and Greg's grandchildren and below them are Joan's grandchildren.