IT'S FRIDAY NIGHT GAME TIME!!!!!

GO WOLFPACK!!!!
Tonight starts Marcus' football season with game night - we play BoydenHull/RockValley in Hull and we are the visitors tonight - we are all super excited and anxious at the same time.

I asked if i could take a picture of him this morning and he let me but also said that this was the only time he was going to smile today - I guess it's time to think about the game and get game face on - so consider yourself priviledged to see his only smile today (until after the game hopefully!!!!) Wish you the best this season number 20 - we will be cheering you on all year!

post number two today :) - first day of school

Here is Marcus' last, first day of school picture for high school :(

and Jamie's first day of school in high school picture :)

Jamie - Josie and Tairin went on the bus together this morning - look out Western here they come - good luck with these three!!!!

Slip-n-Slide/Salsa Party - Saturday

Marcus had his gatorade scrimmage on Friday night this week(inter-squad scrimmage for parents) = from there we took home 8 extra freshman girls to spend the night - well 3 of them decided not to sleep at all :) the rest did sleep a few hours - not near enough for me but they were fine - then on Saturday a few more people showed up around 1pm and the games began - SLIP N SLIDE time!! Here they were just getting geared up - Mike is watering the tarp since it was black and it was really hot and humid on Saturday.

Tairin ended up in the tree on this time down - time to move tarp over :)

Kyle Fopma is on his stomach and I think the other one is Mitchell Rozeboom but can't tell from this view

Abby Pollema on the blue floaty - Tairin Van Tol behind her - Erika Douma with big smile and Bethany Van Lingen trying to sit up and slow down in the back

Drew Van Sloten on left and Philip Lammers on the right

Here come the girls again

Oh here we had two of the guys make it to the creek - and when they got there they started to wrestle - they came out full of mud!!

Here is Jeffrey Granstra - glad he is still smiling

These three from left are Amber Westra - Bethany Van Lingen and Josie Kollis - they are the ones that pulled an all-nighter - they are still smiling though - oh to be young again!!

After a few hours of slip-n-slide they came in and showered first and then we started the salsa!! Here Jamie is helping the boys cut up all the peppers and onions

Abby and Tairin were in charge of boiling the tomatoes

and did a fine job too

Mitchell Rozeboom chopping the peppers - I recongnize him from this view :)

This is Jeffrey again - he cleaned up pretty well - no more mud!!

Bethany - Amber and Josie peeling and chopping the tomatoes - we had a super fun day again and did 21 pints of salsa and everyone took some home - we finished between 6 and 7 - after three loads of towels and mopping the kitchen floor - Mike and I sat down around 8:30 and were quite tired - and even Jamie was tired. On Sunday she kept saying "my abs hurt - my abs hurt" - I think the slip-n-slide was a great deal of fun but also a good workout.

Canada Fishing 2010

The guys flew to Kenora and from there flew into Bear Lake Lodge - hope that plane can hold all that stuff !!!!!

Dave De Ruyter's daughter Emily went along the the first time - she is 9 yrs old and extremly excited.

During the flight - hope there are some fish down there

Caughting them already

This is Ron from Des Moines - Mike fished with him all week - Dave fished with his daughter and Marshall fished with his son

Cabin they all stayed in

Looks like some good eating here

Mike's big walleye - he now tied me - we both caught a 28inch walleye - he knew better than to beat me :)

a picture from the water - they were out on the island all by themselves - was very enjoyable

Relaxing one night - playing cards

Here comes the plane to bring them back home - they had a great trip and we are glad to have them all back!!

Some more Senior pictures

Some we took the middle of July - and then we buzzed his hair for football and took some more - this one he still had his hair - these are some of the favorites - we took 138 in July and 94 more in August - I am having a hard time picking - Marcus did a great job and they all turned out really well!!

Marcus was helping Sawyer get ready and Shelli snapped a picture - I just love it!!

He is trying to look tuff - and he did - love that you can only see the whites of his eyes

We put Jamie in on a few too!! What a pair!! Very proud of them both!!

One of Bonnie and Steve's good friends have a beautiful waterfall in the back yard - so we went there for some too

Marcus' fan club

Sawyer - Nicholas Kooima - Austin Van Zee - Morgan Kooima and Marcus

And this next one is the TUFF GUYS - Go wolfpack and go 20

I like this one too - Marcus looks good in this Orange shirt - we bought it for after prom and his friend Brandalyn told him he had to wear it for senior pics - she was right!

Marcus and Sawyer

Marcus took many senior pictures and then some more with all the boys that got his number jersey for football - he scanned this one in the other night and put it as his profile picture on facebook - It is of him and Sawyer his cousin(Brad and Kerri's son) and I love this picture so much - just thought I would share it with you all and hopefully I can scan some more in soon and share some more - still can't believe that he is a senior this year!!??!!??!!??!!

just a few updates!

Last year on Jamie's birthday Dave Roberts asked Jamie if she wanted to scuba dive for her birthday - this is a guy from town that has all the equipment and is certified to dive - well he was at the pool the other day and asked me if Jamie would like that again - Jamie was standing right next to me and I said you can ask her and he didn't recognize her from last year - he was amazed how much she had grown-up into a young lady - well she said yes and we went scuba diving on Sunday afternoon at the pool and yes Marcus got to go this year also - he thought that was pretty cool.

Jamie remembered it all and took right off - was a good time again!

He even took Jamie and Marcus to the bottom of the deep this year - they enjoyed that too.

Jamie and Josie spent quite a bit of time together - Josie came with us on Sunday and she stayed over night as well - this picture is Monday morning - they went to Western and lifted and worked out from 7-9am and then came home and is was pouring rain outside and they decided to go play in the rain - was fun watching them run around - here Jamie just realized she had on white shorts and they weren't so white anymore :) Not a big deal - I treated them like they were football pants and soaked them for a good hour and then washed them - they look fine again.

This is our parking lot by the garage we got 2 more inches of rain on Monday - the ground is so wet - that it takes awhile for it all to soak in lately - and yes they do say we might get some more rain before the week is up - we might have a chance for another play date :)