Peter celebrated New Year in Scotland with his lifelong friend John Wilkos. Peter spent 3 weeks touring the Scotland area. Peter said, "It was pretty cool and ready to return." Some of the highlights for him was hitchhiking on the Isle of Skye, going to several museums (especially the British Museum), visiting several castles, seeing Loch Ness, going to Wales, staying in a hostel for two weeks, and hanging out with John and his friends.

In February, Ruth and Steve went on a missions trip to Reynosa, Mexico with Veva's cousin's church from Newton. They spent a week volunteering with Children's Haven International, an orphanage. They were able to play with kids and also help out by painting and doing other construction projects. Ruth got to use her Spanish and Steve had fun making balloon animals for the kids on the last night.

We had to pick up Ruth at the airport so we used Veva's navigator on her Sprint phone to find our way. We had quite an adventure. Veva programmed in the Knoxville Airport. We found ourselves going back roads and ending up at a little airport. We had a decision to make, get mad and frustrated or just laugh. We chose to laugh. Our lesson learned: Make sure you know the exact name of where you are going.

On Saturday, November 6, we experienced our first earthquake in Kansas that we actually felt. We had four within a couple of days but we only felt the one. We were watching a movie and sitting in our recliners enjoying ourselves when all of a sudden the room started moving. We first thought it was a semi driving by on our street but Steve looked out and didn't see one.