Thanksgiving break fun for the guys!!!

Jake Granstra-Patrick Kooima-David Buyert-Jacob Faber - and Marcus -5 high school buddies got together on Friday after Thanksgiving and had a great day hunting!!!! That evening then Patrick's parents had a big pheasant fry for them all - was a great break for them from college and they had gorgeous weather that day too which made it even better!!! In two weeks they will all be home for Christmas break - looking forward to that as well!!!

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!!

This is our family picture taken before church on Thanksgiving morning - hope you all had a blessed Thanksgiving and enjoy this Holiday season!!

And of course one of just the teenagers and Paco - we had a very nice day enjoying time together!!

State Volleyball Fun!!!

This was before the last game on Saturday at Applebees - and yes I have a pink stripe in my hair - I bought pink hair spray and the girls thought that I should get into the game so I let them give me a pink stripe just like they all did - Fun times!!!

This was the maroon out at the first game against Carroll Keumper - won in 3 games!!

Jamie with Abby and Alissa the Pollema twins after the game(Alissa plays and Abby was a manager)

Game 2 against Grundy Center was a black out - won in 4 games - lost first game 24-26 won game 2 and 3 score was 26-24 both games and won last game 25-18 - Fun match and very exciting and the girls didn't give up!!

After the game with all the sophomore players - awesome group of friends that Jamie has!!

And Saturday we played Dike-New Hartford and they beat us in 3 games - so we got 2nd at State this year - was very fun and got home around 11:15 that Saturday night and Monday after school Basketball practice started - here we go - on to the next sport just like that!!!

Trapping 2011

Interesting day today - had a few new things that have never had before - made for a fun day - 1st was this one - Mike had a bucket set that had two coons caught in the same trap!!

2nd he caught a coyote in a snare - was too fun - and it was kinda funny too - the fence on the top was an electric one and it was hot!!!!!!!!!

The coyote got caught - wrapped itself around the fence and then fell off the ledge - well Mike and Marcus both got shocked twice before they got him out - Jamie and I just watched and giggled a little - we didn't offer to help - but they did a great job and didn't wreck the fence at all in the process.

Two guys pretty proud of this one!!!

Jamie loves to help with the muskrats and she always keeps it fun and interesting too

Yep - enough said

Day one was very successful - it is and was extremely windy here today and yesterday and all night long - so many bigger animals than normal on first day.

Annual shopping trip this weekend

Here are the beautiful ladies that I will be with this weekend on our annual shopping trip to Mpls., MN - this is from 2009 = we almost have it down to a science and we all work well together - we are very good coupon and deal shoppers and love helping each other out and love love that MN is tax-free.

Looks like we did pretty well that year - hope Mpls is ready for us this year !!! 2 more sleeps and here we come!! I think that the pizza delivery guy actually took this picture for us - too funny!!!

Go Red Raiders!!

Northwestern played Buena Vista on Monday night and beat them 20-6. Marcus had many friends and family at the game - was a beautiful night for football and just love this picture with Grandpa and Grandma Pollema!! Fun times

One week of volleyball left

#1 is Abby Pollema - #2 is Jamie and #3 is Kortney Pollema

These girls have a rotation that they are all out at the same time and always sit like this since they think it is cute - so yes I had to take a picture - they are also all in the back row on the court at the same time too 1,2,3. The girls haven't lost yet this year and are just having a blast - can't believe that it's almost over already!! They have an away game in Emmetsburg on Tues. and then have a late season tournament in Sioux City at Heelan on next Monday evening and then their season is finished. Awesome job ladies!!