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!

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!!

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.

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!!

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!!

State AAU Tournament on Saturday

Jamie played in the state AAU volleyball tournament - their were 15 teams that qualified for the gold tournament in Newton IA (by Des Moines). Jamie played in 8 matches of 2 games a piece - long day but they had a great day!! 1st game she played was against Newton high school - a little later in the day we found out that Aunt Harriet had a granddaughter playing that first game against Jamie - she was playing against her distant cousin and didn't even know it! Aunt Harriet was there and so was Kathy so we visited with them for awhile too which was nice.

After the final game this is Western's two teams that were there and MOC's team got in a big circle and one of Western coaches led them in prayer - was very neat to see - they played FOR HIM and then gave HIM the glory for the great day.

This is Jamie's team - they got 3rd

Both teams from Western!!

Tairin Van Tol - Amber Westra - Josie Kollis and Jamie - great friends of Jamie's

And then pics with her parents!!! MOC got 1st - Western got 2nd and 3rd and Sheldon got 4th. We all drove 4 hours to play and all top 4 teams were from NW Iowa!! Pretty fun and we had a great time - now Jamie is started Golf today - no rest for her I tell ya!!

Pictures from State Basketball

At this game they had a white out - I crawled through the crowd and took pictures of Marcus and Jamie before the game started but only this game didn't want to embarass them at all the games - This is the Seniors - Marcus has a great group of friends and they get along really well - if you can see it - Mariah the girl in the front way on the left has a 20 oz. pop can in her hair - was quite unique and the guys are sporting headbands with hair that Peoples Bank handed out when tournaments started.

Here is a close up of the hair - Marcus is impressed with the picture as you can tell and Brandalyn is inbetween Marcus and Brandon :)

And the freshmen - hard to get their attention - but I got a few!!! Hard to believe that this year is almost over already.