Thursday, April 28, 2011

More Senior Serve Pictures

This was at the after school program - kids loved this and so did the seniors!! Marcus playing ball !!

Patrick Kooima with one of the students



Brandalyn and I think they said this little girls name was Tia - she cried when Brandalyn left :(



Kristin and another student



Marcus and this cutie - he helped teach this one how to pound fists.........



Very cute!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Even got to play some football :-)




This picture is now my desktop background - these next ones are back by that park




Not sure if they were hiding from someone or just resting









And yes mom I asked Marcus if he made it all the way to the top of the amphitheater and he did - I would have definitely been sitting by you front and center :)



Full group before heading home!























Monday, April 25, 2011

Senior Serve 2011

Here are a few of the pictures from Senior Serve - don't have them all on computer yet - so just the beginning - this group of 12 Seniors and 4 leaders left on Tuesday evening around 6pm and returned last night (Sunday) around midnight. Mike is second from the right in front row with the hat on and Marcus is 3rd from the left in the back row. This picture is in front of Mile High Stadium - home of the Denver Broncos - had some free time one day and went and walked around here.


Also at the stadium




Saturday evening they stayed at this cabin in the mountains - said the view was amazing







This is at an ampi-theater at a huge park surrounded by HUGE rocks - this theater could seat 10,000 people - one side of it....








Marcus running up it









and the other side - I haven't heard yet if he made it to the top running the whole way - both boys are still in bed :)




They had a great trip - little lack of sleep - but fun times - they did a prayer walk, worked at an after school program - Mike has some adorable pictures of this on his phone - hopefully we can get them off there so I can put them up too, worked at a food pantry and also a thrift store - on their day-off they went to the mountains and went snow-boarding and skiing.




Glad to have them back - will post more later - off to work - have a great Monday!!












Sunday, April 17, 2011

Prom 2011

Marcus as he is just ready!!! Friday was Western's prom
Family picture before everyone gets here
The senior boys that were at our house for pictures before prom
and the girls - Karlie - Brandalyn Van Zee and Kristin Den Boer
Guys needed some garage time too - getting warm in the house
The couples that were here - Kristen and Brian Hengeveld - Matt Westra with Brandalyn and then Marcus and Karlie
Getting ready to leave in the pickup(Marcus used Adam Kooistra's truck) it was cold and raining all day here on Friday so no outside pictures
This is at the prom inside Western!!
Then here comes Saturday night in Hinton for Karlie's prom - it was still a bit chilly but at least the sun was out and not raining!!!
Morgan and Karlie - Morgan is her neighbor and also best friend!!
Had to take one with Marcus too!!
Yep - he is loving this now!!!
This was the group of Karlie's friends at Katie's house on the golf course where we took some pictures - don't remember all their names :/


Jamie took a picture of the back of Karlie's dress too - it was beautiful and she looked so nice!
Showing off their garters and legs :)
Hinton had a grand march and this was at that - they were announced to the crowd and then stopped at 4 different spots for people to take pictures and this is the one we were sitting at!! The announcer killed the name Altena - he said something like atna - we got a kick out of that. They had a fun filled weekend and now are sleeping - might take a few days for them to recover from this weekend of not so much sleep.

Monday, April 11, 2011

It's Marathon Prom Weekend!!

This week Friday - April 15 is Marcus' Prom at Western and then on Saturday - April 16 it's Karlie's Prom at Hinton. SO these two won't be getting much sleep this weekend but will have fun and hopefully will get some sleep on Sunday. Karlie's mom LOVES to take pictures, so this will be another fun thing for Marcus - I'm sure he will be a good sport about it but I'm laughing already!! I'll post some pics of Prom next week!!

Saturday, April 2, 2011

Marcus' New purchase

Marcus bought this bike a few weeks ago - got it home last week with his father and it was in the fifties today and it was out early and went on a few rides today - He took it to Grandma's house last week Sunday to show everyone but it was quite cold yet - today was nice and he enjoyed it much more!!! It is an '08 Yamaha V-Star and only has 1300 miles on it and looks awesome - he bought it from Power Brokers in Sioux Falls.
Jamie was very eager to get a ride today - they just cruised around town - then came back he put his helmet on and went for a longer ride alone!! Fun times!!