Final Farewell

Sunday was a bittersweet day as we said goodbye to not only our Pastor and his wife as they are retiring, but also to our church. With Pastor retiring, we decided the best thing to do was dissolve the church. We had only been averaging 20-25 people (including 7 kids and teens), so there wasn't enough people to be able to go on.

Once the weather warmed up a little, there was always many box elder bugs in the entry

 The boys and Emily liked to pick them up and put them outside

Emily wasn't involved this time around, but I wanted to capture the ritual on "film"

For our final service, several families that had attended in the past came as well as friends

There were 50 people in attendance

It was also Mrs. Whittenburg's birthday, so we sang Happy Birthday to her

gifts of appreciation

FOOD :)

  And of course the fellowship

Thanksgiving Week 2010

Our Thanksgiving week started on Nov. 21st with a special service at church for Olympian/Gopher Buddy awards with a Thanksgiving meal afterwards.

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The younger 3 kids helping me make peanut butter pies.


















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I brought my camera to my mom's house on Thursday, but didn't take any pictures!
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Saturday, we went to Edmore for Thanksgiving for the extended family (on my mom's side)





William was "baby sitting" Samantha.








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Emily had fun with Samantha, too, and was concerned she was missing every time she wasn't in her carseat.








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cousins :)

(Victoria, Sarah, Katherine)







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When we got home from Edmore, we put up the Christmas tree.









William directing the work.










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Emily (these were taken by Sarah)













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Andrew's help consisted of taking ornaments off the tree, and in this case, eating it (it was yarn)











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playing with the hands-on-nativity I made (and still need to finish!)



(I'm not sure what Andy's look was!)

Pastor Appreciation

October is Pastor Appreciation month.
We always seem to wait until the last possible Sunday to celebrate!

Crazy Hair Night

Wednesday was "Crazy Hair Night" for Olympians. We all got our hair done up in fun ways.

This is all of us from behind. Andy had a few barrettes in his hair (what he has anyway!) but they are hard to see!

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Dan's version of "crazy hair"! :)

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I didn't get very many pictures at Olympians....

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Game time used scooters, and Andy loved being pushed around!

Vacation Bible School Prep.

VBS is this week at church. It is exciting this year that we have the sole occupancy of the building so the decorating has been in full swing all last week! (Last year we couldn't really do anything until after the other group had used the building on Saturday)





Dan & I came in on Wednesday to help out

























Here is a start to the hallway / entry decorations



































And the start to the auditorium decorations






































































Here Andrew is enjoying his feet sliding around on the plastic!















Yesterday at church, they did a little intro to the theme of VBS (SeaQuest: Diving for God's Treasure)