Dad's Birthday Party

Dad turned 47 on Monday, so we had a special supper for him: grilled pork chops and side dishes to go with it.

the decorated table

We got Dad a birthday cake from Alber's Icecream Parlor.

Happy Birthday to you...

blowing out the candles

Dad and all of his kiddos :)

Happy Birthday Dad!!!!!!!!!

~Amber

Happy Birthday Dad!!!

Happy 47th Birthday Dad!!!!! We love you!

David: "beloved" ; Alan: "Rock"

D- Devoted Father and Husband
A- Adventurous
V- Valiant for Truth
I- Intelligent
D- Dependable


A- Amusing
L- Love for God
A- Amiable
N- Noble leader

"But seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you." Matthew 6:33

Congratulations Andrew!!!

Andrew has been accepted in law school!!!! :) He will be taking classes from Oak Brook College of Law which is a correspondence college based in California. This past week, he went down to Oklahoma for his orientation.

Andrew's class

Andrew took several classes while down there.

Congrats Andrew and may the Lord bless you as you begin school and seek to serve Him!!

~Amber

Yellowstone Lake Campout 2010

We went camping with friends from Wednesday night fellowship this week on Sunday-Wednesday. It was a lot of fun!!! The weather was a little rainy on Monday but only the girl's tent leaked. Thanks Matty for letting us sleep in your tent! Tuesday was pretty hot, but we all just hung out at the beach. The whole time there was plenty of boating, swimming, volleyball, badminton, singing, and just fellowshipping. This quick posting is for you Jonathan since I know how anxious you were to see the pictures. ;)
(Photo Credits: Dad took all of the water pictures and I did the non-water ones.)

the campsite

Day 1: Sunday

music around the campfire

mandolin

guitar

Mr. Skelton cooking supper

Mrs. Wunschel and Sarah S.

Mr. Grib, Mr. Rhoe, and Mr. Wunschel

Sarah R. and Alec

singing 1 John 4:7-8 before we ate supper

Austin and Anna

Mr. and Mrs. Wunschel

Day 2: Monday

a time of singing and devotions

After devotions, we headed down to the lake for some water activities. :)

Jon

Austin

Alec had a blast playing in the water!! He was not scared of it at all!

playing in the sand

Mr. Rhoe took anyone tubing who wanted to go. Some rides were more wild than others! ;)

Jonathan and Aaron

Anthony and Sarah R.

me and Sarah S.

loading up new people

Sarah R.

Anthony

crashing into each other

and over Anthony goes

They liked bumping into each other a lot I think. ;)

Aaron and Matty's turn

Matty

Aaron

Wow!!!!

Aaron managed to correct himself, but Matty fell off.

spectators from the beach

Jonathan and Mark

WOW... Jonathan really caught some air!!!

That had to hurt coming back down. :/

Mr. Skelton and Mark

When we got back from the beach, Mr. Rhoe set up a game for the kids to do. There were cups with water in them and you had to blow ping pongs and get them to land in the other cup.

Sarah R.

Anthony

Paul

Danny

Anna

Alec was quite mesmerized by the game. :)

Jonathan

The Rhoes planned a surprise baby shower for Mom on the campout.

Sarah helped the Wednesday night fellowship kid's choir practice "Jesus Loves the Little Children" to sing for the shower.

Since everyone was there, they decided to have the families come too rather than just the ladies. :)

opening gifts

Mom with the beautiful cake

Thank you ladies for making it very special for Mom!!!! It was a big blessing to her!

playdough time

games of badminton

Anthony and Jonathan against...

Mr. Tucker and Matty.

Day 3: Tuesday

Mark

The little ones had a good old time playing at the playground just up from the campsite.

Mr. Rhoe wanted to try out our camera so he took some of these pictures. :~)

Mr. Skelton
Photo credit: Mr. Rhoe

Matty
Photo credit: Mr. Rhoe

Anna
Photo credit: Mr. Rhoe

Sarah R.
Photo credit: Mr. Rhoe

Mr. Rhoe and Dad

We started out the day with some singing and devotions. I took some close up pictures during it.

Aaron did a great job playing "Sanctuary" on the mandolin.

Jonathan played the guitar on one of songs.

so cute!! :)

Since Tuesday was really hot, we all headed down to the beach. Some of us went tubing again and the rest of us swam. Our group was probably the most crazy boat people on the lake! lol Everyone who tube tried standing up while on the tube, and some people jumped off the boat while going pretty fast. It was pretty cool though when Anthony, Aaron, Matty, and Sarah R. all jumped off of the boat right after each other!! Unfortunately, Dad didn't get a picture of it. :/

Sarah R.

Matty

Aaron

Anthony

Danny

Mr. Skelton's hairdo after driving the boat. lol ;)

fun in the water

At the end of the day, Alec was so tuckered out that he fell asleep with a sucker in his mouth.

We played a game where you had to guess what year certain camping items were first used.
On Wednesday morning, we packed up. Thankfully, we got most everything packed up before it started to rain! The campout was a lot of fun!!! It was so nice to spend time fellowshipping with good friends!

~Amber