Christ is Risen, He is Risen Indeed!

Have a blessed Easter!

Pond Hockey

Pond hockey is awesome! Best game ever created except for maybe Manhunt! Holly and I have been tending an ice rink we made with our neighbors be clearing the snow off of part of a pond down below our house. it is a good sized rink; probably thirty feet by fifty or sixty feet. So last week, we decided we wanted to host a game of pond hockey with some of our friends from scouts and the play. After we set our plans in ice, I promptly went and came down with the flu/bug and was laid up the entire week in bed with a fever. (By the way, thanks to everyone for your prayers and notes. I don't think I've ever gotten so get well notes! I think everyone wanted me to get better so that we could do hockey.)

Anywho, hockey didn't happen last week, but my mom was nice and let us invite our friends over yesterday to beat on the little rubber disk for three and a half hours. I had a blast! Here are some of the pictures from it! Thanks to Holly for taking them. She played for quite a while (and skunked everyone, I might add...) the saw how bad she was making me look and hopped of the ice to then impress everyone with her photography skills!

I personally think that is action shot is wicked cool!
L-R Myself, Ben leaning over, John, Eli, Josh, Elizabeth and Olivia.

Grueling Stick to Stick Combat! John, Myself, Josh, Ben M and Ben A 

Olivia and Alicia with my stick doing and epic photo-bomb!

Puck Drop! They made me ref for a little while, but then I quite cause
playing hockey is way more fun that watching!
Alicia, myself, Livi, John and Eli

A quiet moment in the game. They were very rare.

Josh (High Sticking, tisk tisk...) and Ben A

Livi, our awesome goalie, sending the puck back where it belongs - on the other side of the rink!

...yeah...

Elizabeth and Livi 

Myself, Ben M, John ready to take my head off, Ben A and Eli as goalie for the other team.

Can't wait to do it again!

Random Pictures

I was out for a walk with Lily this evening and watched the sunset from a hill out behind our house. It is my favorite place to sit and think. Here are some pics I took with my phone.

The sunset from the field behind our house. That is my finger in the corner.

The view from the hill I like to sit on. You can see along the power lines
from probably two miles. It is really cool.

My faithful side kick admiring the view. Lily loves it out there.

I CAN'T BELIEVE IT!!!

The play is TOMORROW!!!!!!!

In case you didn't know, my sister is directing a play, The Scarlet Pimpernel. If you don't know the story, here is a little over view. The story takes place during the French revolution. It is about the original Special Forces, a band of Englishmen that have formed a secret league with the sole purpose of rescuing French aristocrats, who were condemned to death, from their fate at the guillotine. The leader of their group is careful to hide his identity and is known only to his closest followers. To the rest of the world, he is know as "The Scarlet Pimpernel." He is as resourceful as he is cunning and leaves the keenest of French spies baffled by his identity and tactics. That is, until the French government enlists a man who is equal to enigma in skill and deduction and is as evil as the Englishman is good. He uses kidnapping and blackmail, along with other dastardly deeds, to lay the perfect trap to catch the hero, leaving one person, a girl stuck in the middle of it all, as the only way of escape. It ends with and epic battle of wits, landing the Scarlet Pimpernel in the lap of his greatest enemy. The question is this; is he cleaver enough to out wit the fox to save his life, along with the life of loved ones and those depending on him with their own?

Come to our production tomorrow at 10:00 am or 7:00 pm or Saturday, Nov 23 at 3:00 pm to find out!

  

21 Reasons Why My Sister Rocks

In honor of Holly turning 21 today, I am posting 21 reasons why she rocks.

1. Because I say she does. If that's not a good enough reason for you, there are still twenty more to change your mind.
2. She loves God
3. She wants to be a stay-at-home mom.
4. She's pretty, and I'm not bias!
5. She is the only person I know that actually laugh a my stupid jokes. The best times I've had with sis have been spent laughing!
6. She lets me do crazy things and doesn't get too embarrassed about them. (Like singing camp songs at the top of my lungs while hiking down a mountain...) She even does them with me, when nobody's around.
7. She lets me and my buddies tag along when  she does things with her friends.
8. She studies crazy hard. She will get her BA in history in less than two years.
9. She can knit with her eyes closed
10. She cheers me up, and drives me crazy, when I'm sick!
11. She makes the world's BEST Brownies!
12. She used to be able to run faster in high heels than i could in running shoes.
13. She owns a horse.
14. She is scared up spiders and will pick up snakes with her bare hands.
15. She reads more in a day than I do in a month.
16. She doesn't get the point of Chuck Norris jokes.
17. If she can't sew it, no one can.
18. She was crazy enough to try to teach me Latin. (That takes guts!)
19. She thinks on her feet.
20. She takes awesome pictures.
21. And she's my sis!

Happy Birthday, Holly!

Eagle Pics

Ok, I was asked to post pictures of my Eagle Project at the end of June and am just now getting around to it. Sorry, Alex!

My baby!

The "Beast." Yeah, it's 40 feet long...

The view from the lookout about half way up the trail.

The stone waterbar

The restored waterbar

Waterbar 3

Waterbar 2

Waterbar 1

Cutting trees with dad

Cutting out the kiosk with Alex.

Painting the Kiosk with Paul

The last workday, my dad cut 777 into one of the stumps.

Paul and David removing an old waterbar

Ryan being a boss.

My dad being more of one.

Installing the last water bar. I don't have a picture of the finished one.

Ryan and I waiting for our Eagle Boards

Me in at my board.

They let my dad sit in on it too, which was really cool.

My mom waiting outside

Coming out from the board while the committee talked it over.

Me, Jeremy and Paul

I Passed!

Jeremy, me and Paul after it was official.

Me and Jeremy waiting for Ryan to finish his board.

Ryan passed too! How cool is that!

Ryan with his board.

Congrats Ryan!

Left to right: Tyler, David, Jeremy, Ryan, Me and Paul.

Left to right: Mr. F, Tyler, David, Jeremy, Ryan, Me, Paul, Mr. B and Dad.

Ryan wit his mom and dad.

Me with mom and Holly.

Me and Ryan!

And in case you wondered, that is my report; all 122 pages of it!