Marcus' pig story

We had a pretty busy week last week - but one thing I forgot to mention about last week was Marcus' drive to school on Tuesday morning!!

Marcus left as always around 6:45 to go lift weights - about 5 minutes after he left I got a call from him - "Mom, I hit a pig" My response was "YOU HIT A WHAT!" Marcus was a mile out of town and there was a farm place loading out hogs that morning - well one got out and Marcus found him for them - He was meeting many cars and it was dark out - when he met the last car all of a sudden there was a fat hog on the road and he tried to miss him but hit him with his right front end of his car. The hog went rolling into the ditch(Dead pig) and no one was hurt except the car has some damage to the front!! I called Mike and he had the same response I did "HE HIT A WHAT!" It's actually one of Marcus' friends place and they are being really good about it - Marcus' car will be fixed this week.

We wish everyone a very blessed Easter week - maybe we should have some pork chops this week :)

Good Day Fishing!!

Mike went fishing today in Yankton below the dam and they snagged some BIG fish - Dave De Ruyter is in this picture with a big carp!!

This is Nate Van Kley and Dave with a Paddlefish!

Dave caught this one

And Mike caught this BIG ONE - they had an awesome day and lots of fun - no walleye today but good times fighting these big boys!!

They didn't even break any poles?!?!?!?!?!?!

GOOD TIMES!

State BB 2010 - Des Moines

Here are a few pictures I took at state - this game on Thurs - was a rainbow theme - Seniors wore blue - Junior green - Sophmores yellow and Freshman red - here are a bunch of Juniors that Marcus hangs out with quite a bit!!

This is Marcie Kooima - I work with her everyday and go to Des Moines and she is there too - looks really good though with no paint on her!!!

Here is Jamie and her friends with two cheerleaders - the outside ones are cheerleaders - Chelsea on the left and my niece Alex on the right

Mike teaching the girls to play blackjack at the hotel!!

Marcus taking a swim!!

Wasting time at the mall playing mini-golf till game time on Friday !!

WESTERN WON 2A state championship -YEAH!!!

Bridges Bay 2010

Here are some pictures from last weekend with the Pollema's at Bridges Bay in Okoboji - we spent most of the time by the water park - was tons of fun and good to forget about the snow and cold for just a little while :)

Bonnie with her grandbaby - Kaylee

relaxing by the hot tub - Dad - Mike - Marcus

Great-grandma with Kaylee

The two babies - Brendan and Kaylee - they will both be one this month - WOOHOO

We celebrated Sawyer's 7th birthday while we were there - he turns 7 on March 10 - he was excited to celebrate in the hotel room!!

Grandpa and Grandma with the babies on the lazy river - was HUGE to get mom in the water - she doesn't like water and then we had her in a tube too!

This is how we got that accomplished - we had reinforcement on all sides of the tube :)

Just another part of the pool - they could play basketball and cross over the lilly pads - they had a huge part for the babies too - but I didn't get a picture of that

Vanessa coming down one for the big slides

Jamie and Alex - they are growing up so much!!

Then on the way home on Sunday - we took Vanessa to walk on the water - they are standing on the lake but can't even tell since there is so much snow on the ice yet - we had to kick lots of snow away to get to see the ice - was fun-filled weekend!!

On to state basketball!!!

These are pictures from state basketball 2009 - well Western made it again and we are planning on going next weekend if they win on Monday.
Marcus is going on Monday with his friends and one of their fathers - if they win we play again on Thursday at 2 - win or lose on Thur. we play on Friday either consilation or championship.
Marcus is going to stay with friends in a room at the same hotel we are at(we need to watch them a little yet :))))

Mike and I get to chaperone these three cuties on Thurs and Friday. We play at 8pm on Monday the 8th and then hopefully we will have a fun, filled weekend in Des Moines after that. These girls have school all week - so we are staying home on Monday so they don't have to miss quite as much school(which they weren't too concerned about but it's better this way) They have the next four years to come yet and with Western's track record - I'm sure they will get their chance of going again!!