Starts

Yesterday I started my greenhouse class. We are learning how to grow flowers and vegetables from seeds. Listening to the lecture I can tell there is an art to this. I know why most of my starts end up dying. After the lecture we went into the greenhouse, which is huge and got started. We got our soil (dirt) and started planting seeds. I mainly planted yellow onion. They're pretty hardy and I'm hoping that I won't kill them off very easily.
Today I turned in our papers to refinance our house. We got a 15yr. mortgage at 3.5%....with no money down or costs. I'm still just so shocked that we got it fixed at such a low percent.

Grandkids

Jess got some great pictures of Darci with her eyes open. She's such a pretty girl!!

























Kingston is trying out Darci's seat.....fits!! :)















These are some of the pics. Emily took while we watched the super bowl. Asher with Lesa and Emily.














And Maddox with his mom. :)

Nathan's email

Hey Mommers!
Wow, that's soo nuts that Darci has been born already! That's pretty crazy! You'll have to send me some more pictures as you get them!!! Thanks fore the money. Last month while in Savonlinna we had to buy bus tickets and it was at the end of the month so we didn't have any MSF (the money the church gives us) so we had to buy the tickets with our own money which kinda sucks but hopefully here soon I'll be able to get that money back. SO it sounds like everything there is going good. It sounds like dads book signing went really good. That's so crazy that all of this stuff has happened sense I've been gone. Dad's becoming a pretty big celebrity. Things here are going pretty good. Last week was really cold it got down to about -30 outside and I honestly thought I was going to freeze to death.. haha. It was pretty cold and riding our bikes in it really didn't help. Today however has been in the low teens. like right now i think its about -12 so that's super nice!! I may not even need thermals today :) But other than that things here are going pretty good. We've got a good amount of investigators however I honestly haven't seen half of them so they'll probably get dropped here soon if we cant get in touch with them soon. Other than that though not too much is really going on here. But thanks for everything! I love and miss you a ton!
Rakkaudella,
Vanhin Nate Peck

Hey Pops,

Sounds like you had a fun week. That's too bad that there weren't any good commercials this year. Hopefully next year we'll get some good ones. It seems however that the commercial quality has been decaying lately so hopefully in the next year or so we'll be able to get some good ones.

Things up in the freezing cold north are going pretty well. This last week was pretty cold, it got down to about -30 and it got pretty cold while we were riding our bikes around. Luckily today is in the low teens. The last time that I checked it, it was about -12 and it was -19 this morning, so it's really just warming up today, so I'm really excited about that.

I don't know if I've ever told you but you're basically a celebrity here in Finland. Tons of people have listened to your pod casts and you're changing a lot of peoples views on evolution. It's pretty funny almost every missionary here has heard about Steve, the Evolutionary Biologist. So your pretty well known now.

The missionary work here in Rovaniemi is going pretty good. We've got a good amount of investigators, however I haven't meet a lot of them, so we could be dropping a lot of them here soon. However the work is really going pretty well. The ward here is really cool, we don't get a lot of D.A.'s but they are all really cool. It's a good place and I think that I'm really going to enjoy it here.

Well that's really about all for now but I hope you have a great week and I love and miss you! Take care!

Rakkaudella,
Vanhin Nate Peck

Book reading and signing

Yesterday, Steve did a book reading and signing at BYU for his book,"Scholar of Moab."




















Steve did a great job and seemed like a natural up there talking. It was a lot of fun to listen to. A lot of people showed up and there were lots of great questions asked afterwards.











I took a lot of pictures which I guess I wasn't suppose to do. Oops. :)



























Darrell and Dyann, their friends the West's and Christopher came.




























Afterwards we all went out to lunch at a cafe at the art museum. The whole event was just a lot of fun!!!

Day 2

Jess sent me a picture of Darci......day 2. I miss her!! I can't wait to see her and hold her. I think about her a lot! She has such great parents and a wonderful big brother. She is a beautiful little girl!!!
















Jess is going to have so much fun dressing up Darci. Girls are a lot of fun. :)
I tried to take a picture of my face with all the many sores on it from the pre-skin caner treatment. But the picture really doesn't show much. But there are sores under my eyes, nose and upper lip. I'm not much of a whiner but I have to say that they really hurt....kinda like road rash on the face. If this medicine has done anything for me (beside searing away the bad spots) is to use sunblock and wish I didn't lay out in the sun so much when I was younger.

Darci

Darci Avenlea born at 10:32pm weighing 6 lb 3 oz and 18 .5" long. We are so happy she's here and she's beautiful!!! There will be more pictures to come soon. Welcome to our family Darci.....so glad you're here! :)

Janurary coupon total

January had some really good coupons come out in the paper and also there were some really great deals at the stores. One of the great deals that I happened upon was yesterday. The store I went to had Tide detergent (liquid) for $2.99 regularly $5.99 each. Then I had a coupon for $2 off of 3. So $2.32 for each one. Yeah......I stocked up. I don't think I have to buy any for a few months. Also with the Super Bowl coming up there's been lots of sales and coupons to match. But the total amount of coupons I use for January is $108.19 plus all the incredible sales on top of that. Pretty good month. :)