New look office

welcome!

Lots to see here

Dolls from Charles' mom

Bibles (L) and Methodism books (R)

On Thursday, Charles completed his redesign of his church office in recognition of the start of his fourth year at Stevi UMC. One does need to get a new look from time to time!

Thursday outing

On Thursday, Charles took advantage of the amazingly cool weather to take in some golf with two of the men from Stevi UMC. Nice weather, so-so golf, great guys!

On top of St. Mary's

two miles up the trail and still standing

Dean takes in the view of Stevensville

Victory!

A challenging trail

Amazing views in every direction

Charles accepted an invitation to accompany Dean Diers to hike St. Mary's Peak today. The trailhead is at 8340 ft. and rises to 9300 ft. at the fire watch station 3.5 miles of switch-back trails latter!

It took most of the day as Charles is nowhere near the shape he was just a few years ago! But, the summit was reached and Charles has lived to tell the tale. His pedometer (on his iphone) recorded 24,000+ steps on the seven mile hike!!!

Sheila & Belinda's outing

Out for the day

Good food!

Good weather, too!

Party gals!

Charla Bauman on guitar

Belinda and Sheila attended a picnic hosted by a couple from our church, Dave & Connie Rakiecki. Lots of fun with wonderful food and a wonderful view of the mountain (that Charles was climbing!). There were twenty or so there with half of that being Stevi UMC members.

Our fourth Fourth in Montana!

We marked our fourth Fourth of July in Stevensville today and with each one we have found more to love about our Montana home!

2013 - Making our new home in SW Montana part 1 and part 2
2014 - We're locals now! part 1 and part 2
2015 - Preparing for the arrival at the parsonage of Sheila (Belinda's mother) one link

The start of our fourth year

July 1st marks the start of our fourth year in Stevensville!  What an amazing adventure we've had since arriving in 2013!

the week behind

Stopping for a spell on the River

A  round of golf in Missoula

A quiet moment for Wesley

Mo helps out at VBS

Belinda chats with a library patron on Friday

 We've had a wonderful, if not too hot, week! We've enjoyed some quiet moments (including a golfing outing for Charles), VBS at the church, and First Friday at the library.  All in all a good week!