< MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HOPE SANTA IS GOOD TO U THIS YEAR!

Hello! Once again Mother Nature decides she will warm up a bit for how long who know. We are grateful for the little bit of warmth we do have.

work is going OK and we are glad to be working. We are taking and getting ready for Christmas. We are having our Elders over for dinner and we are glad they could come. We enjoy the company and do this every month for them.
we hope you all have a safe holiday season Smile :0}

We the Lutgen's have been having a blast with our computer and that we are able to stay in contact more with family and friends. I am in a new calling and it is a challenge some days. I am First Counselor to the Relief Society President. It is fun but challenging.
We got snow already and it came with cold and a wind chill. It will be another cold winter and we will survive.
well chat with you all soon HAPPY HOLIDAYS :"} SMILE!

Hello Family and friends. I am good and this time of year is always fun for me. We are staying busy and are working again peeling logs for our Boss. it has been fun. We did however get 5 inches snow this past week. So it feels like Christmas up here. hope all is well! Smiles :"}

Hello how are we all in the world of hustle and bustle? We got a web cam and low light video chatting for our computer as a gift from Romans family and it is great easy to use and we have tried it out and have taken a few pictures of ourselves for face book. We will be enjoing our holidays and hope u will too. SMILE:}

Holiday are soon to come!

Well as the holidays are coming up on Thursday we are indeed grateful for many things and having the opportunity to have so many good times and events happening. We are glad to be here today. We are going to be going to our Branch Presidents house for Thanksgiving to be with his Family. They have 3 kids. Two girls and one boy. The youngest girl is Rachel and she is in my Primary class. So it will be fun to go. We have spent all of our Thanksgivings at home for 8 years so this will be the first in 8 years we do not have to cook the bird. We are grateful that we have such wonderful people to share our day with. Well We all hope that you have a great holiday and remember all that you are thankful for. SMILE:"}

We Have The Internet and a Computer Now.

Hello! How are you and we are glad to have a computer and access to the Internet. Thanks to a friend of ours from church. It was his Idea t hook us up when he found that the computers at our local library are no longer letting people blog or do e-mails. this was do to people taking up to much time and recking it for others. Roman was glad to have Internet and was able to get it up today. We hope all is well and that we can be able to have it for a long time.

Hello! We the Lutgen's are doing fine these days. I am glad that we have avoided the flu so far this year. We have been keeping busy at home. This coming Sat. I will be doing a craft far and will have lots to sell as with all of my free time I have had I have put it to making lots of different things to sell. A friend of mine makes hats on knitting looms and will sell them there as well. We hope that it will be a great day to sell and that the weather holds out for it. We will see. Well hope all is well with all of you and have a wonderful day. :0) SMILE

Hello Family and How are u doing today? We at the Lutgen's are good. We are going to be helping out a member in our Branch who has MS and can't get around to good as his wife is a school teacher and works 9 hour days and can't take him to appointments. It is Nice to help and to be of service. I hope that we don't get the big flu that is going around these days. It is not bad here yet so we are glad. Hope all is well your way. SMILE:"0)

Fall is here!

Fall is here and we are feeling the coldness of it. The leaves are off the trees and we are heading into an early winter as we have gotten snow already this fall. Or Primary is Practicing for the program and i was asked to lead the music as we do not have anyone to lead. Roman is subbing for my class for the program so i can lead for them. It is a great program and we are glad to be a part of it. :0) SMILE!

Frost is here to stay!

Hello and what a cold day for us. We got up and it was 25 degrees outside. cold and lots of frost on the ground. We 're surviving it alright. tough young folks up in the Northern Country. We are also getting ready for the primary are going to do there program in one month and are going to practice it for the next three weeks then we have stake conference and then we will have our program. I am excited to be able to help them out with that and to be a part of the primary it is such a joy. I love the calling and am glad when we got our new Branch President that I wasn't going to lose my calling as of yet. I am grateful that they have such a nice program for the kids. Who knew that it was going to be this fun. Well chat soon :D SMILE!!

Hello Family and friends. We are doing alright and are able to stay warm as the nights and days are getting colder. We are well and are glad that we were able to see some of conference yesterday. We hope all is well your way.

Cold

Well we finally got cold weather this week and it was not what I wonted. But it was going to hit us sometime. We are all good. I gave a talk in church on Missionary work and Friendship it was fun. A Roman says hello to all of you out there and he does now have a face book page so if you wont to chat contact him there. Well gotta run chat with you all soon :")

Happy

Hello and how are we doing? well today we got to go to the library and i got roman on face book what a place. I got the hang of it and we found out that he has over 500 family members on line. all the people with our last name are a relative either way. Cool hu? We have to go now.

Work

We are good this Monday morning and are glad that we got to work Sat. We are able to get a few things done. We are going to be watching the house for the Couple that we worked for. Yesterday our Branch President was released and we got a new on. The thing about the on that was called was that when our other one was gone on business with his job he put his first counselor in charge and that was who was called. We are happy for that. We hope that it is going to be a great change for the branch.

ENJOYING THE SUN !

Hello! We up in the northern region are doing good. Yesterday we we were able to get out and about and enjoy our 77 degree weather and it was great. they have a Drive In Restaurant In Roseau so Roman and I went. The food is good and filling and not to high priced so they are only open for a season so we always try and go once a year. We are good other wise. Roman has the start of a fall cold and we are trying not to spread it last night he was up and down all night. Poor Guy! :"< well smile AND have A GREAT DAY:")

We have gone and added a new post and it looks great. I figured it all out and it only took 20 mn. We are going to be working hard in a month or so that will be good. We got up to 77 degrees so far today. well gotta run ":">

Hello once again and we are good these days. What else is up with Roman he is doing. He was glad to work last week and hopes all is well that in three weeks to a month we get to stain a big log cabin for our Boss and we are glad for that. Well gotta run :">

Love!

Love our warm weather and love the fact that we are doing well. Yesterdsay we did a craft fair in Roseau and we did quite well for ourselves. what a day it was. we did it from nine to five. We had a booth right next to a member of the church and that was fun to chat. We got to know each other a little better. fun ha? Well we are good other than that. :"">

Working in Wet Weather!

Have you ever tried to work in wet weather well I do not recommend it at all. I am glad that I got to work the last three days and we made a little money to have for ourselves. We also found out that our Branch President is going t0 be moving for Five years and is going t o move back and would like Roman and I to watch his house and to take care of the yard for him while we are gone. it will be a once a week thing for five years but that is o because we can't move from our trailer for fourteen years and five months do to the lean we have on the trailer do to North West Community Action helping us fix the Roof. So we would also gets some money for doing this for him. We don't know yet how much but we will find out. well anyway. not much else is up. Take Care and Smile Lots :0)

Wet

Today we are going to be working for our Boss sanding and painting benches. If it rains we are going to be doing it in the shop. We are grateful for work and everything that we can do. Sunday at church we talked to a Sister in the Branch that Is with the Church Job Service. We have hope yet. Well it has been a great Labor Day Weekend with all of us and hope yours was great too. Smile:)

Fun Weekend

Weekend fun! Hello and what a week end. Roman and I just got new neighbors and what fun that is. Our old ones moved and we got new ones. They have four dogs and decided that the dog kennels will go on the side of their trailer right on the side where we put are to dogs so Roman told them that our dogs bark loud when they see a new pet in the neighborhood so he just warned them about it. Wow I hope that it goes well so far so good. We are glad that we are having a good weekend. Church was a blast with just three girls in class we had fun learning about temples and about how we can all go there someday. Roman came to class and was telling about how he got to go to the MN Temple and how he was at the Dedication and what a great time he had. We are grateful for that. :)

Working Again

What a week we are having. Our friend Shayne came over yesterday and told us that on Friday which is tomorrow we are going to be able to go to working the afternoon to stain some wood benches for our Boss. It will take us about 4 to 5 hours to do that and that s going to be great. Our being able to work is in answer to our prayers and we are grateful everyday that we get to work. I enjoy that. Roman and I are also getting new neighbors next door to us the neighbors we had moved out this week and the new ones will move in next week. so this is exciting for we will meet someone new. We know so far that they have three kids one boy and two girls and two little dogs. We all hope that your Summer was a fun one for all and that the fall coming up will be fun with most of you in school.

Sunday fun and learning!

We all have moments with our callings that make us step back and ask ourselves, "Lord why Me and why now I know I an suppose to learn from this but what?" I have a child in my class that thinks she is still two and will act out and do things that she shouldn't. It was a test to me that know child is perfect and that we have to remember that we can learn from it. time outs work when you get the parents involved. I am glad that I work with the primary kids and am glad to have such great families that help out in times like these. We are given callings for a reason and am in dead grateful. We are well and are staying busy at home. Keep Smiling :)

We are doing great., We got 3 trees down in our yard Friday And it was great to have them down. I was on fire duty and was burning all of the branches we could not save. It was different to see all the open space but we like it knowing that the trees will not come down on our home. We are doing a great cause with the wood that we are able to save and that is our friend Shayne has a cousin who burns wood as his main heat source and we gave all the wood to him because we found out that he has cancer and doing the treatments for that takes a lot out of you so we are grateful we could help.
Hope we can get it all done this week. Well hugs to all

Hot

Well last week was a fun seek as we finally got our 90 degree weather and it was great. Even Roman thought it was nice. We took and went swimming Wed. and that was fun. Warroad has a local outdoor beach and swimming era for the public to enjoy and we only have to pay three dollars and we can swim all day. that was so much fun. On Sat. we went to a free dinner for our Community put on a free dinner to thank the people for shopping in Warroad and we went and had fun. We also have been getting ready for the trees to come down in our yard. our neighbor is going to do that for us and that is good. We are taking at least five down and their may be more. That all depends on how we think the rest are after the first five are taken. their are some really tall trees that we do not want coming down on our home again. what a week we have planned. Well hope that we are able to get all we want done. the last three days it has rained and that's a lot for us and we hope it will stop so we can get our work done. We will see until next time chat soon Smile often. :)

Busy

Hello and howdy! We all have been busy. Yesterday Roman gave his first talk in the Branch on Scripture Study and he did a great job. He enjoyed that chance to give it. We also have been doing a lot of work around the house this week cleaning and such.
Friday we had our Elders over and we have just gotten a new one to the era. It was nice. We went to an Eagle Scout Court of Honor and enjoyed that to. We are getting ready for another busy week. We are going to be doing yard work and getting the outside cleaned up and all the flower beds weeded. I hope that we get a little bit of warm weather. well gotta run. Smile :)

hello! We are doing well and hope all is well for all of you. Roman and I went out and did some more work for our Branch President and that will be all for a while because he went on vacation with his family. We are getting rain today and some cooler weather and we are grateful for that but we also want to see 80 degree weather too. Well Roman also has been given the chance to give a talk on Sunday the 9TH so we are going to work on that this week. Gotta Run, Smile! :)

Work and Blood Work!

Hey again another day. We are doing theses days. Yesterday was a long day working for Our Branch President as we were there at 7:00 am and left at 8:00 pm and we only stopped for half an hour for a bit of rain and an hour for lunch other than that we took only about six five min. breaks we are working again on Friday. that day we are only working half a day then he will be gone for a while on vacation. It has been good for us and we are glad he had work for us. Other than that we are staying well and to day I had blood work done to check my A1c count and to see how my diabetes is doing. We are going out to lunch after Romans blood work is done and we see the dietitian and all. We do this every six months.

Well I will sign off for now Have yourselves a Happy, Wonderful rest of July! :) Smile all the while

Summer Work

Hello once again. It has to be said that life runs us around in curcles and we have to stop to smell the roses. our last week was so busy twice we worked afor our Brsnch President and this week we will work as well. We are glad that we hyave that cance to work and to have a little more income. We are doing well although Roman got poision ivy and it is not fun for him. He went to the clinic in Grand Forks and got a hearing test done and that went well for him. His hearing has gotten better and we are glad for that. It was a long day but a good one for us as we don't get out of town that often. Well we have to go chat soon :) SMILE FOR THE DAY!

Hello! Well we are doing well. Sat. when we went top help out our Branch President we ended up trimming and cutting brush away from his long driveway which is about a quarter of a mile one way. we had both sides to do and didn't get all done because he didn't want to over work us so Tuesday of this week we are going back to finish it all up and to get paid. then on Wed. we are going to go to Grand Forks ND. for Roman has an ear apt. and hearing test.

We found out on Sat. night when we got back home that Romans Aunt Jeannie Died Sat morning and that she died do to a surgery she had and that they were going to find out what had happened then decided if she was going to have a funeral or not. It's all a mess and Romans Bother Lee Lutgen Who was close to their Aunt will take over the rest of the stuff as his Aunt's two kids are to upset to do it and handed everything over to Lee. It is quite an ordeal. We will see what happens.

We are busy this week with a lot as also Thurs. I am Visiting Teaching and going to Enrichment Night as well so we will see how our week goes. chat soon :) SMILE AND HAVE A GREAT DAY!

Hello! We as the Northern Couple have a full week a head of us and we are grateful that on July 17TH we will have been married for ten years. on the 15TH we are going to see the Movie Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. It comes out that day and we are going to see it. We are also going to help our Branch President on the 18TH and for a friend 0f ours tomorrow. She need some help so we will be helping her.

We are doing well and have enjoyed our summer this far. we hope that it stays this nice with just a little heat. It has been in the low 80's and that is good well chat soon :) SMILE!

Well I hope everyone had a wonderful Fourth of July. As we the Lutgen's from A Life In Northern Town did. Every Fourth they have a big to do down by the lake in Warroad and have games, food, music, and at four in the afternoon they have a parade and lots of fun all day long. At dusk they have the fireworks and that is right after a lighted boat parade. what fun that is for all of us and we are glad we went down. Roman and I spent the Fourth with our friend Shayne and we all got some sun. I don't feel burnt as I do feel hot from the sun. We are doing well otherwise so that is good. this week I am doing a lesson in opening exercises in primary and it is on the scriptures and eternal families. I am so excited to be doing that. the teachers get to do one a year when there are five weeks in a month so that is good. Hope that the summer is a good one. :) smile all the while

Hello! We as the Northern Survivors of any weather can tell you that as our summer is ending our month of Jun we are entering clod weather again. Sunday the 28 TH we got some rain and temps. in the 50's today we are seeing 56 degrees and it might get up to 73 by Thursday. What a week it will be. we are still peeling logs and on Thursday of last week I got a blister and on Friday it popped. It was bleeding so it was a blood blister and it hurt. The blister is drying out and getting better. I am grateful that that is the only one I have gotten this year so far. we are doing well and Roman says Hello! smile :)

Hey Family and Friends! Its been a great week so far. We are doing lots of little projects and we are enjoying our hot weather. We are dealing with the bugs though they are thick this year do to all of our wet weather. We had a very good Father's Day as I had asked our Primary to sing in church and they sang the song My Dad just great. We don't hear them sing to often so when they do it is a treat. any way not much else is up with us KEEP SMILING :)

Hello and happy Summer! We are excited to be able to finally have our 70 degree weather and to be able to get out and do our yard work. This last week we went out to our Branch Presidents house and did some work for him on Tuesday and Saturday. We got paid to help and we also got fed as well. It was Roman our Friend Shayne from church ad I doing yard work and cutting and stacking wood. It was hard work but we enjoyed it a hole bunch. In fact on Thursday of this week we are going back to do more work. I wanted to let you know that we are doing well and Hope all of you are well. SMILE :)

Hello and what a rainy day it is for us. we are going to be doing a job for our Branch President on Tuesday the 9Th of June We are not getting any logs in for about three days so he asked us if we wonted to make a little cash. We can't pass that up. other than that not much is going on with us. We got a lot of work done in that front bedroom and it looks a hole lot better then before . So that is what's up chat soon :)

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Hello Everyone! The life and laughter of our lives is what is best said for us at this time. We are in high spirits as we are with out work for the week and have been renting movies at our local library and keeping busy cleaning the house. our frig. got it's annual deep clean and boy does it look great. We are also in the process of working on or spar room as it needs to be gone through and what we don't need needs to be thrown away. What a day that project will be. I hope all is well with everyone and that your weather is warmer than last month. ours cooled of a little and we got a little rain this week to boot. Well of for now SMILE :)

Hello! The Lutgen's are doing well this week and are working hard peeling logs. In fact We peeled so much we ran out and the Boss has to go and get some more logs for us to peel. We are loving our warm weather and in fact two weeks ago we planted our flowers in our garden flower spot. We planted Batural buttons, Sunflowers, Daisy's and Ham Hocks. We hope that it will turn out just nice for us. We are grateful for the rain but am glad for the sun that we have been getting. Hope all is well with everyone. Smile:)

Hello and greetings to all. Life In A Northern Town is groovy these days. We have been peeling logs and having lots of fun and we have had many other things to do as well. Wed. we had the Elders over on their P-Day and played cards and had a wonderful time. We also got rid of some of our logs to a family in our Branch who will use them for the Scouts for their camp outs. I also went visiting teaching this week as well. What a fun week.
Roman went to the Doc. because he had a cold and had to be put on a Z-Pack so to get rid of the cold. Oh how fun that was. Don't you just love side affects? :( I am glad that he is better now. I am glad that I have not gotten any sicknesses this year that have drug me down. That is do to me being careful who I am around that is sick. We are getting some warmer weather out here and am grateful for that. We will be getting more logs in some time in the next two weeks so we can get back to peeling as we only have about ten or so logs left. It will be good for us to get to peel more as summer is coming upon us. Well hope all of you have a Smiley Day:)

Warm Weather!

Hello and Hope all is well. We are enjoying warmer weather today and are able to peel logs and get some sun and warm weather today. Hope all had a wonderful Mother' Day and that you enjoyed the time with family and friends. We had the Elders over for dinner and we ate and had a great decision on the support and friendship of members with non-members it was great. I also had the time Sunday to call family and chat with them. We are grateful for All of the mothers in our lives and wish them well all the year through. take care and Smile;) it will make people wonder what you are up too!

Someone called for Rain!!!

Hello and hope all is well and hope you are doing well in this world. I am not working this weekend do to snow and rain. What a time to find other things to do and you know I did. A friend of mine got her daughter married two months ago and decided to have the reception today so we went. I also was asked to babysit for another friend after the reception so that is what I am doing the kids sleep and I get to play on the computer. I do enjoy the time I have and am grateful for that. well I hope all is well everything is good our way. Chat soon Stay Well and Smile:)

Tough Times

What a life we lead when you think that you have been out to dry you find that everything is upside down and sideways. I feel sorry for all who have lost there jobs and who have to get by on unemployment and and some don't even get that chance to get that and have to rely on family and friends. I am feeling the crunch of all that is going on as well as some of you who have lost your jobs and have to start over. We all have to start over at the bottom even when we have the skills to be out at top. Please bear in mind that this is a challenge and will take time to get through it. I am in dead grateful that we have people out there who have been where we are at and that we are not alone and that our Heavenly Father is also there for us in our time of need. we also have the Gospel of Jesus Christ to guide us in our path and that with much prayer and fasting we can find a job and make life a little bit better for our family. I wish all luck and will I pray for all in there time of need. Take it easy and SMILE OFTEN:)

Health

Well as life takes us in new directions we are grateful for the Doc.'s that have been able to help us out on all levels of health care. Saturday May 2ND we had the opportunity to go to a diabetic health fair and learn more about the illness. We even had a breakfast that was provided by the clinic. I am grateful that we have a great Diabetic Center here in Roseau Mn and that we can get such great care. Roman had to get a shot in his left shoulder and is now recovering from the pain. I do hope that it gets better. We send our love out to all the mothers in our family with Mother's Day coming up and hope that it is a great one for all. SMILE IS COULD BE WORSE! :)

SNOW AND MORE SNOW!

Hello! What a day we are having. If you think that winter was over you are wrong! We got 2 inches of wet ugly snow Sunday night and it is not fun to shovel what a day. We still managed to go and peel logs at least I did and it was wet down at the shop. We hope that the weather they have predicted will be what it is nicer weather for the rest of the week.

We are well and Romans arm is getting a little better. We have to run Smile:)

Cold Again!

Hello Roman got back to the Doc. and found out that he was over working his arm and has to take Naproxan and that is 1600 mg at a time twice a day and has to take it easy for ten days. So no peeling logs. Which for him will be hard he is still going to go down and chat with me as I work but he can't work at all for ten days. Our weather has dropped again and it will be colder at night so we have to wait till later in the day to go peel logs. No problem for me as long as I am still working that is all that matters. well we will chat soon. Smile :)

Hello and Howdy ! We are well this day of The 22ND of April. We have to take Roman to the Doc. today because we think he over worked his shoulder peeling logs last week so it was good that we had three days off. We have gotten a lot of card playing done as he can't move it much. we hope all is well with the Doc. apt. Tomorrow is our Branch Enrichment and it is a birthday party for all the sisters in the Branch. It sounds like it will be a lot of fun for everyone. chat soon, Smile Often, Laugh Lots!

WINTER AGAIN!!!!

Winter weather has set in again and today we are getting some snow. :( I have to say that peeling logs this last week was a blast and we are a head of schedule by a lot and that is good but our boss said if we want to have logs to last until the 15 of May then we have to slow down and take it a little slower and that is what we did. We took Saturday Thur Today off of work. today it is cold and snowing so we do not work in that weather. This last Saturday the 18Th of April we had a Garden Party at the Branch building and it was so much fun. Roman and I helped with the Children's activities and enjoyed doing that. They got to plant a seed and we ate bugs on logs ( celery, raisins, and peanut butter) that was fun for all. I came all dressed and prepared for the event with a sunflower sweatshirt and sunflower pants. The pants I made with left over material I had from years ago from a quilt project. the Sisters in charge just loved the attire. In about three weeks I will get to plant my sun flowers and I can't wait. We are well and staying busy so we will chat soon. stay happy and well.!

I hope that everyone had a great Easter as we did up North. We had the Elders over for dinner as well as a friend of ours from the Branch. The Birthday of Kerri was the best as she got 6 phone call and even called Jill, Abby, Parker, and Mia to chat for Easter. It was so much fun to hear Abby, Jill and even Parker sing me Happy Birthday. What a joy even Mia got in with a little crying to let everyone know that she was there. well we have to go and peel logs now so have a smiley kind of day and keep up the Blogs.

Bye Bye Van :(

Hello! For many days now we have been back to work peeling logs and again today isn't any different. We are grateful for that and I am glad to be working again. Roman has been good and if any of you have seen the new movie Twilight It is great in his eyes. He has seen it four times since he bought it Friday the 3rd. Well as for another happening we got rid of our grey Plymouth Grand Voyager do to a bad Transmission. the Transmission was stuck in 2nd gear and it would of cost us over $800.00 to fix so we sold it to a junk yard that we have gone through for parts that we have used when we had the van. I was sad so see it go but what do you do when you can't afford a part. well so that is our excitement for now. Smile :) lots and happy Easter to you all.

SPRING IS STILL TO COME AND HOW!

Hello and greetings from Northern MN. What a frozen melt down we are having today with 37 degrees as our temp. We are taking it easy today as we can't peel logs yet due to the snow and all the slush. what a tragic mud whole we have down at the shop and believe you me you don't want to park down there because of the mud and muck. We got a few letters written and sent them off and are looking forward to more warmer weather so we can go peel logs and get down to really making some money. I am glad though that I didn't live in the southern part of the state. They got hit with 17 inches of snow. :( What a down fall for those fokes . We are also getting ready for my 34Th Birthday on April 10, and Easter coming up. Romans sister Missie and Bother-N-Law Lyle have Birthdays also in April So we are going to have a Birthday Dinner for all of us. That is always fun for everyone. Roman is doing well and says hello to everyone :). Stay happy and smile often.

We are all doing well. We had snow and the water isn't high any more. We have a little warmer weather up here in the Frozen North so that is good we are glad that the river has gone down and that the efforts for the flooding is down. thank you all for your prayers and love to all we love you and hope that everything is well. Smile and stay happy :)

Hello everyone! The northern snow is finally melting on the ground. We are so happy to see 45 degree weather and can't wait to get back to work. We have been good this last week but found out Roman has high cholesterol and has to go on a diet for that. Bummer:( ! The branch is having a gardening party in three weeks and I am getting to help out with the primary kids and that is going to be so much fun. I bought seeds to plant sunflowers again this year and I am so excited to be able to plant them this year. I hope all is well your way and stay well and happy.

Welcome to a frigged day up north for some of us we are staying warm and others who have to be out burr.... We are glad that we got to see Pictures of Mia and glad she is doing good. We are well and are working on projects at home. Our Elders from the branch came last night for dinner and it was so much fun. We also had our friend Shayne over as well. we got a winter blizzard yesterday and we are grateful that we were not stuck in it. Well until next Smile :) lots and laugh often

Hello world and Family. Today is a windy day and we are proud to see the Pic. of Baby Mia Peterson. we are doing well and all is good. We have been busy these days doing spring cleaning and reorganizing our home from all the winter snow we got a little rain last week and some has melted but more snow is on the way this week. Can't it ever end? We are well and know sickness has come our way. We are getting ready to have a great spring as our Boss is out in the woods getting work for us to do. YEA!!!!! Smile often and laugh lots :) :)

Hello Everyone! We are Proud that at 12:07 AM Monday morning Mia Peterson was born and I got to hear here cry at 2:00 AM March 2nd. when proud Grandma Peterson (Suzee) was calling me from the hospital. I am indeed grateful for family and was glad that she was born with know problems. what a joy to have here in our lives. I am well and the weather up here isn't as bad today. we have 17 degrees above 0. so that is good. Roman over the weekend was busy fixing a chair that the fokes gave us. If any of you remember the couch and chair that was once in the Peterson house in Ill. that is the chair he was fixing the legs were broken and it wasn't rocking right so he was up to his arms in drilling out the legs and putting new bolts in to hold it better. he has one bolt left to get and that is the center one. That one requires a larger bolt then the rest.. well we will sign off and happy smiles :) to all.

Hello Again from northern Frozen MN. It is amazing that the weather is still chilly as it was a month ago.
Well I was able to chat with Jill Thursday Feb 20 and it looks like that little niece Mia isn't going to wait for Grandma "Suzee" Peterson to arrive, but that is OK. I chatted with Abby and I tell you what that little girl is so smart. She sang Happy Birthday to me even though it isn't quite my Birthday and told me all about Preschool and what she has been up to like painting her fingers and toes blue and pink. I so am amazed at how she is growing and it is a joy to have her in our family what a kid. I am glad that we have this wonderful family of ours. Although big it is sill a joy. If you say you can't learn from a child and they aren't smart they are wrong. I am doing well in primary and yesterday we played Choose The Right Bingo and that was a blast. We used smarty candies as our game pieced it was so much fun we learned about Prophets and what the Lord has told them to teach us. In our lesion we learned many ways the Prophet has taught us and in our Bingo was many things we are suppose to do and that was so much fun to put together. Well chat soon. Love to all!

Cold up in here

For us the last two weeks have been busy. We got the roof fixed and we are able to some what get to normal. We are greatful that the work was done quickly. That is such a relief. well not much to day chat soon we are staying warm again and that is a blessing.

Well hello. The frozen north is cold yet again and yesterday our furnace went out and we had to get it fixed. we are on a state program for the fuel and electric we get so we were able to get help for the fixing of it through them. tell you what thank goodness the problem was not that bad. it will be good. we are going to be chatting with the same program today to see if we can get help for the roof problem so we are headed in the right direction. All is well otherwise. More later.

Hell Form MN. The frozen north has again taken a tole on the Lutgen's this last week. We had a frighting Sat. night with high winds and warm weather. Sat. night about 5:30 pm we were in at home and had a friend over to watch movies and work on craft projects when we looked outside and noticed that the wind was picking up so we decided to bring in our two dogs. I had to use the bathroom and as I was in the bathroom I heard a loud crack. It was one of the trees in our yard breaking and hitting our trailer witch did damage to our kitchen roof and inside were our table was. Roman and our friend Shayne went out to see what had happened and how big the tree was and then just as we thought it was safe we heard another big crack and it was another tree hitting our trailer this time it hit the master bedroom and part of the tree came inside. Roman called law enforcement. I called Dad in Ill. and told him what happened. as I was chatting with him the power in the whole trailer park went out. shortly after that an officer came took a statement and took pictures of the damage. As they were there we noticed we couldn't get in to the master bedroom so Roman prided the door open we finally got in and things were OK. I tell you that was a fright. Then we called the 1st councilor in the Branch and told him about it and asked what we were going to do about it and the only thing we could think of. Shayne in the meantime went over to the neighbors house and asked him if we could help us get the trees of the trailer. He had a chainsaw and a ladder. He came over and Shayne went up the ladder and looked ant the damage which was quite bad. but in the dark and with the wind still blowing out we decided that there could be nothing we could do in the dark so we patched up the areas we could with left over plastic we had from another project and put buckets under the plastic punched a small hole in the middle so the water could drain out and waite. We all just said a lot of prayers that there would be no other trees falling in the trailer park.
Sunday came and we went to church and let people know about the problem and after church the neighbor and five members of the branch came over to help as well as Roman, Shayne and I. We borrowed some heavy tarps used by Shayne's dad who is a trucker and placed them were the holes were as of this morning there is no water dripping from the holes and we are safe. We owe all of the help we have received from people from our Heavenly Father and know that this is a test of our faith. Surprising enough I am not as upset as I could be so I owe that all to him to for keeping us calm throughout all of this. We will let you know more as we know more until then take care.

Hello Everyone! The world in the frozen north is cold again this week. Last week we had a bit of warm weather bur this week.. So we are doing well. I have found a new craft I can do with my sewing machine and a week ago I was asked by a gal in our Branch if I could make her a few items for her new baby coming in march so I took the fabric she had given me and made a receivingspecial little girl will be getting a few as well. We are excited that she will be arriving soon. blanket two bibs and a burp cloth. I wanted to see if I could make the other items. I can sew blankets and quilts pretty good but wanted to learn a new craft so I set out to make some. I didn't have a pattern so I went to our dollar store and bought a bib and burp cloth to use as my pattern. I made them all out of felt fabric and was so excited that they turned out so cute that I went to the craft/fabric store and bought more felt to make more. So guess what not only am I doing craft sale in the late summer and fall to sell some I have decided that a very

Frozen North

Hello and howdy From the frozen north lots of snow is still falling upon us and we are getting more by the day. So the new year has been good to us so far. I have been enjoying my calling in the primary and several times this last week I have been out and about and had a few tell me how thy so enjoy me. It is a blessing from my Heavenly Father that I have this calling so that Is great. I have learned so much and even if they don't sit still for long I know that they are getting what I have taught them and that is the important thing. . Roman is well and spending a lot of time with family and friends. stay warm as it is bound to snow some more.

cold,colder, and coldest.

Happy New Year and Such!! How bitter cold it is up in the frozen north land. it is 1 degrees out and on sat the 3rd We got 7 inches of snow to add to the cold but we are survivors and are hanging in there. The latest events in our lives is we are working on some quilting blankets and we finished a new one for Roman. We are excited that this year has come and have lots planned. Last Sunday I gave a talk in church on goals and it went really well. I have 6 Children total now in my Primary class and was excited to teach yesterday. All of the kids are 4-5 yr olds. I enjoy them alot and am grateful to all for that calling. I Hope that it is even more fun this year. So far so good.