Yesterday I got to stop at Ring Power Cat to see Uncle Darryl at work and I got to 'play' for over an hour!!! I had never operated a dozer before, so they put me in a D-6 to try it out. Totally Awesome!!

After dozing up a ramp into the pile I swapped out for a 315 Excavator. Fred, the guy that made sure I didn't get stuck, was a little nervous for a bit while I did a few things with the hoe. Didn't know I had operated one before:)

Pulled up the ramp to make a big drop off and then walked the hoe off the edge to quit.

Monday I flew to Florida(supposed to be on my way to Jamaica, but that is another story) and visited my Uncle Jim and Aunt Nancy for 2 Days. On Tuesday Uncle Jim took me to Fantasy of Flight, a private collection of War birds from WWI and WWII. It was absolutely awesome!!

Uncle Jim and me standing in front of a P-51. In the background is a B-26

This picture is the nose of a B-17 Fighting Fortress. That chair is where my Grandpa Rinkenberger sat as the bombadier for 13 missions over Germany. So cool to walk through the plane and have Uncle Jim tell me history of it and stories of Granpa!

Last week I had the opportunity to go to Sun Down skiing with Fuel, the highschool youth group from Harvest.

We took a break at 6 for a pizza party and then some of us went back out for an hour of night skiing. It was a total blast!

Queen size bed with hand carved matching head and foot boards.

King size Cedar Head Board

Candle light Christmas dinner

Marly cheesing for the camera

Me, Brock, Tim and Marly cracking nuts... A Kloter Christmas tradition.

David cutting wood for the factory. I asked for

1 1/4" boards and that is exactly what I got! Well, they vary about 1/16" of an inch either way on the 10" wide 8 1/2 foot long board. Unreal!

It has been a long time since I updated this... Sorry for those that actually check up on here.
So much has happened in the last month. One amazing God thing was on my trip back to the States for Christmas. I was walking out of the last security/customs/immigration check point at the Atlanta airport and saw this man that I was sure I knew... Sure enough, it was Tracy and Joy Dager!(they had been missionaries at JDV when I first started going down) They were coming back from their new mission field in the West Bank working with Palestinian Christians. It was a Divine appointment that I had been praying for for a long time. We got to talk for about 1/2 hour and it was so good to connect again.
This past couple of weeks has been a great time with family, Friends and being back at church!