Kenny & Myrna 2014

Kenny and Myrna

Dear Family,

This has been quite an eventful year for us. We are grateful for the restoration of our health, our friends and our loved ones.  Starting last December, I has a pain in my abdomen that I thought was kidney stones.  After being in the hospital for three weeks, I was operated on for a leaking bowel. About a foot of my intestine was removed. The doctors said it would be a year for me to recover.  I tried to prove them wrong but they were right, of course!

In February we were able to finalize on the little house and five acres next door. While I was convalescing, Myrna would fill large garbage sacks of trash from the house and put in the garbage dumpster.  She carried 30+ sacks of trash from that house!  MaryLynn and Gary and their family came to help with demolition of some walls we felt needed to be removed. Landon was having so much fun using the hammer on the dry wall of the wall being removed, that he continued demolishing other walls!  We had to put a big "WHOA" on him!  When we completed all the clean-up and "destruction" we could do, we hired a young man to finish the work. He did a great job and now the house has set vacant since last June.  One day we want to rent, the next, we want to sell and the third, we don't know what we want!  That has been a major project but we do need to move on with this beautiful little home.

We took a 3,000 mile road trip in our little red bug. The first leg of the trip was the family reunion at Bear Lake. Little planning went into our trip because we didn't think we could go until the last minute. Thanks to Newell and others, we were able to stay in comfort in one of the little cabins. Thank you, Ray, Becky and family for another great family reunion!

On our way to Denver on I80 we got between eighteen wheelers on each side and one in front. It was rather scary and Ken said, "If we survive this, I am trading this damn thing off at the next town!"  (We survived and still have the little red bug!)

When Ken got sick last year, we disbanded the petting zoo and are only doing weddings, stage coach and covered wagon rides. Jeff Mueller, a friend from Iowa, came out in October and has helped with all there is to keep this business running.  He is a great friend and we appreciate all the help he gives us.   The past two years we have done 80 weddings each year and this year we will do over 100. The business keeps growing and getting bigger all around.  We appreciate Harold and Katie Christ and The Windmill Winery for making us a part of the Big Barn and Lake House weddings.

We are looking forward to seeing all of you at the Family Reunion in Billings this summer.  Keep smiling!  

Ken and Myrna