Here is the first touchdown 3 minutes into the game on Friday night - thanks to Joy and her awesome picture taking you get a play by play!! Here he comes
diving for the endzone
feel sorry for that guy under there
he made it
and quite excited bout it and rightfully so!!!!
Celebrating - Western won this game 38-21 - was a super fun game to watch and lots of action as always - and NO ONE GOT HURT - YEAH!!!!!
Joy Faber does an awesome job taking pictures every game night - here are some from Friday night's game - This one was at a time-out and yes Marcus is number 20!!
Running off the field
Just liked this picture since their numbers are on their helmets and 10, 20 and 30 were all right there!
Quarterback handing the ball to Marcus
These next ones are before the game starts - coach pumps them up and they do a little move and run in together
Coach Kooima giving them last minute instructions and just thought it was a neat picture with his hand on Marcus' helmet.
This was during a penalty during the game and deciding with the umpire what they wanted to do.
Mike and Dave De Ruyter had a successful opening day duck hunting today!! After the exciting win for the Wolfpack football team last night, Mike left for Spirit Lake. Dave and him were up extremely early this morning and had fun shooting some ducks!!
They got their limit - even the dog (Mia) has a coat on today - it only got to be 46 degrees today - quite chilly but good hunting weather!!
Our church retreat was this past weekend at Inspiration Hills - we had a great time and here are some of the activities we were involved in! Jamie and Sawyer are having minnow races here - each have a minnow on their side and you have a straw and help blow your minnow over the finish line! Sawyer is winning - I think Jamie's minnow is fighting her :)
They also had many crafts along - here they are making sand crosses with colored sand (Mike's pickup is in the back of this picture and that is the cabin we stayed in - I really should have taken a nicer picture of it b/c they were really nice and the girls loved it) We had 7 freshman girls in our cabin with Mike and I - they had a loft area and they camped out up there which was awesome since they also had their own bathroom up there too!!
Then there was the volleyball tournament(two teams - some dads and sixth grade girls against the freshman girls)
This is the winning team - not by much though - all three games were very close - these are the girls that were in our cabin as well plus Josie she came later!!
And the 2nd place team - they were very competitive as well - even had some grass stains on those white shirts!!
Then in the evening came the dunk tank - that number six is yes Jamie and yes that is her mother up on the tank - and yes she got me in on her first time up to throw - she must have her dad's arm because there is no way I would have hit the target - I got dunked as least 8 to 10- times and it was quite chilly too - but it was to raise money for Feed My Starving Children so it all went to a great cause.
I would just hold myself so tight cuz you never know when they are going to hit it - Mike didn't try to get me in - just gave the girls money to try and enjoyed watching them get me - I think out of the 6 girls that were there at the time - 3 of them dropped me - I gave Jamie a big hug when I was finished.
Before each game the captions go out on the field and talk together with the umpires for the night - #57 Brian Hengeveld - #2 Jake Granstra - #75 Trevor Van Den Top - #20 Marcus Altena :)
Just a shot during the game
Jamie had her first tournament on Thursday - they came out on top and won all the games and were the champs YEAH - here she is serving!
Here she is setting - Kim took all the pictures - Mike and I decided that maybe we need a different camera - her's take really good pictures and quite clear for action pictures and inside a gym and in the evenings at football.
September 1, 1948 - was the beginning of a very special relationship and also the beginning of a great family!! Sentner and Ladene were married - what a great looking couple!!
This is February of 2007 - we were all together at Cindy's home
This is March 2009 - we were ALL together celebrating 60 years of marriage - WOW - what a blessing - thanks Mom and Dad for all your love and support and most of all your Christian example. Reminds me of the song "May all who come behind us find us Faithful" by Steve Green - here are the words:
