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Christmas – Dec. 2009	Here are pictures of our 2009 Christmas season, including getting our tree, decorating, Christmas Eve, and Christmas Day.	Alia’s 10th Birthday – Dec. 3, 2009	Alia celebrated her 10th birthday in December. A few days later, she had a small party and a sleep over with a couple of friends.
Missionary Mary Ballenger’s 70th Birthday Party – Nov. 28, 2009	On November 28, there was a party helping Missionary Mary Ballenger celebrate her 70th birthday. Mary is a Missionary to Africa and is the Academic Dean at the West Africa Advanced School of Theology (WAAST). It was a very nice time giving honor to this fine servant of God who has dedicated most of her life in His service. Click HERE for more information on WAAST. We love you Mary!	James’ 6th Birthday – Nov. 8, 2009	J.J. had a fun party with a few of his friends in November.
Harvest Party – Oct. 31, 2009	Here are pictures of a fun evening the kids had at a Harvest Party that First Assembly of God church hosted on Halloween.	Ana’s 13th Birthday – Oct. 3, 2009	Ana turned 13 this year. Congratulations Ana! She had a small party and invited a couple of her friends over. They had a great time and ate a lot of pizza.
Neighborhood Assembly of God Picnic – Aug. 30, 2009	Once again, we had our church picnic at the Kleffner Ranch. We had great food and good fellowship and fun games for children of all ages.	Jefferson County Fair – Aug. 29, 2009	We had an enjoyable day at the Jefferson County Fair today. Click the picture to the left to see more.
Carol’s and Desire’s Birthday Party – July 2, 2009	Carol and Desire’ celebrated their birthdays together on July 2nd. It was early for both of them, but as almost always, Carol’s usually occurs during Family Bible Camp, and Desire’s usually occurs during Jr. Teen Camp. This year was no exception, so we relaxed with a day of celebration well ahead of their actual birthdays. They both seemed to enjoy it. Click on the picture to see more from their combined birthday celebration. Happy Birthday Carol! Happy Birthday Desire’.	Glacier Bible Camp – July 4-11, 2009	Part of our family’s tradition, is to go to Glacier Bible Camp for our vacation. This year, camp started on July 3rd and went through July 10. We had a very good time. Here are some snippets and pictures of this year’s vacation. Click HERE for a description of our fun vacation.
Katie And Desire’ Graduate The Eighth Grade – June 4, 2009	Katie and Desire’ had their Eighth Grade Graduation on Thursday. The School put on a nice ceremony. We are proud of bout Katie and Desire’ for their accomplishments. And also, congratulations to Desire’ for winning a “Citizenship Award” for her school and civic contributions. She also received a fourth place ribbon for the Einstein Award in her science class. That means she was the fourth highest in the science class. We are proud of you both and we love you!	Memorial Weekend Work – May 25, 2009	On Memorial Day (Monday), we had to stick around to receive a load of about 33,000 pounds of blocks for our retaining wall. We have a retaining wall in our back yard that was quite delapidated, and in dire need of replacement. With our wonderful children’s help, we tore the old one out and we are in the initial stages of building a new one. It will be very nice when we place the last of the 33,000 pounds in place. Whew!
Memorial Weekend – May 23, 2009	We did not go camping over the Memorial Day weekend. Rather, we went on a nice picnic on Saturday at a campground about 15 minutes away from our house. We had a real fun time.	Clancy’s Tri-school Spring Concert – May 19, 2009	Clancy School hosted a Spring Concert consisting of three schools. Clancy, Boulder, and Montana City students attended this nice concert on May 19th. Ana has been playing the clarinet this year and participated in the concert. Ana and all of the students from the three schools did a fantastic job.
Katie’s 15th Birthday – May 8, 2009	Katie turned 15 on May 6. On the following weekend, we celebrated with a small party and she had a few friends over for a sleep over. We had a fun party with Lasagna, then a very delicious ice cream cake. Have a blessed year Katie, We love you!	Easter in Glasgow – April 11, 2009	We put over 800 miles on our vehicle and spent the Easter week-end in Glasgow, MT with Heather. Read more about our fun week-end HERE.
Little Mermaid – April 3, 2009	The Missouls Children’s Theatre presented “The Little Mermaid”Jim Caron, at the Clancy School. The students had tryouts on Monday, they practiced for four days, and presented the program today. Katie got a part as a “Sea Scout” and Ana got a job as a stage manager. For Ana, that changed yesterday when one of the top actresses was not able to continue with the play. Ana was asked to play “Delia” the mermaid, the oldest of four sister mermaids. She had ONE DAY to learn all of her parts. Great job girls!	2009 – Montana Mens Advance	Our church had our statewide Mens’ “Advance” on February 27 and 28 at Central Assembly of God in Great Falls, Montana. Several years ago, we decided to change the name from “Mens’ Retreat” to “Mens’ Advance” because we are “advancing”, not “retreating”.This year, we were honored with the presence of Mark Lowry. Mark is a Christian Comedian, Singer, and Songwriter. He is well known for his thirteen years association with the Gaither Vocal Band, and has announced to us that he has returned recently to the Gaither’s after a several year solo career. Mark was accompanied by the very talented pianist Stan Witmire. That man can make the piano “sing”.
2009 Missions Banquet – Feb. 21, 2009	On Saturday evening, March 21, Neighborhood Assembly of God had their 2009 Missions Banquet. Our Keynote Speaker was Missionary Andy Raatz, missionary to Moldova. Carol and I had the privilege of traveling to Moldova in October 2008 on a short term missions trip with Neighborhood Assembly.Besides being blessed with a challenging message from Andy, on personal love for those we are serving, we were blessed by the music of Cissy Padget. She is Helena’s own singer, song writer, and author. We also heard from Tim Kern, our local missionary to the college campuses of Helena and Chi Alpha. Jeff Larson gave us an update on past projects that we have begun in Moldova, and Craig Charlton was a superb Master of Ceremonies. Andy, then spoke at our church services on Sunday. We had a good time of prayer for him, his family, Moldova, and the Home of Hope. See our Missions Page HERE.	Iona’s Birthday. Feb. 20, 2009	We went to Butte to help celebrate mom’s 80th birthday. We had a very nice party at my sister’s house. It was nice to see all those that were able to attend. The kids had a great time with their cousins, and other relatives. Click the picture to the left to see some photos from the party. Click HERE to see a couple of small videos from the party.
Alia’s Ninth Birthday Party – Dec. 6, 2008	We celebrated Alia’s ninth birthday today. She had a small party with three friends over. They had a lot of fun dancing to the hokey-pokey, opening presents, eating cake and ice cream, and had a blast sledding down the hill.	Christmas 2008	Our Christmas season starts the day after Thanksgiving. On the Saturday after Thanksgiving, we went out tree hunting and started decorating our house. Then came school programs, and finally, the big day. A very white Christmas. We thank the Lord for coming as a baby boy to live the life we couldn’t and die the death we deserved.
J.J.’s Fifth Birthday Party – Nov. 8, 2008	We celebrated J.J.’s fifth birthday today. We had a small party for him with his Uncle Dave, Aunt Melodee, a friend named Andrew and Andrews mom Kathy. All he wanted was a screwdriver cake, so Carol made him a cake with screwdrivers on it. He got a tool set that was complete with a drill/screw gun, a tool belt, and a tool box. Click the picture to see more photos of his birthday.	Ana’s 12th Birthday Party, Desire’ and Volley Ball, Packing for Moldova – Sept. 27, 2008	This was a busy week end. We celebrated Ana’s 12th birthday. Ana invited some friends to stay over night. It was a fun time. Desire’ had a Volley Ball tournament this week end also. The Clancy Cougars “red team” came in first place. Congrats! Carol and John were also very busy packing for their trip to Moldova next week. Wow!
Neighborhood Assembly Picnic – Aug. 24, 2008	We had our church picnic at the Kleffner Ranch. What a great time we had. The Kleffner Ranch is between East Helena and Montana City. It was well attended with probably 200 or so people. Denis Young and his wife Stacy own the ranch, and host many events there all year around. Denis gave us a grand tour of the barn and of all the work they have done renovating it. The barn was build in the late 1800’s and is in great shape.	Jefferson County Fair – Aug. 23, 2008	We had a good time today at the Jefferson County Fair.
DownPour Festival – August 16, 2008	Our family took a road trip to Great Falls to attend the annual “DownPour Festival” held there every year. From their website, “DownPour Festival is a home-grown free-admission music festival held in Great Falls, Montana. This was our first time attending, and we had a great time. It is nice to be able to go and be thoroughly entertained, while keeping all the focus on Jesus. It was a wholesome clean fun event for the whole family.	Karest and Kyle’s wedding- August 1, 2008	We went to Kalispell for the weekend to attend the wedding of Carol’s Brother’s daughter, Karest with Kyle
Picnic at Terry and Birdie’s House- Aug. 2, 2008	The day after Karest’s wedding, we had a fun picnic at Terry and Birdie’s house	Cooling Off – July 24, 2008	We went to the Boulder River at the Galena Gulch Campground near Boulder, on Thursday evening for a simple picnic and to wade in the river. We had a great time, playing around, finding pretty rocks, skipping rocks, playing tag, reading, and eating. It was fun and refreshing
Happy Birthday Desire’ – July 17, 2008	We celebrated Desire’s birthday early again this year because it fell, once again, in the middle of Bible Camp. It was a low-keyed event with just the family. Happy Birthday and have a blessed year Desi	Myrtle’s 80th Birthday Party in Kalispell, MT – July 5, 2008	Here is the first round of pictures from Myrtle’s 80th Birthday Party. There are quite a lot of pictures here. To view a slide show of the pictures click HERE. If you would like to see an overview of all of them, click HERE. We would love to have you leave comments. A ten minute video can be seen HERE.
Montana Scenes – 2008	This is an album of some of the pictures I have taken while I travel around the beautiful State of Montana. I frequently add to it so check back now and then for some nice “Montana Scenes”.	McDougall Family Reunion – June 27-29, 2008	We attended the McDougall Family Reunion June 27 – 29. We saw many relatives that we haven’t seen in a long time and many who we did not know. It was a real fun time for the family. The reunion was in Bonner and Missoula, Montana. Bonner is just a few miles east of Missoula.

Click HERE for older photo albums.