On Wednesday morning I came in to find things looked better than when I had left on Tuesday, even the supplies were organized. Turns out the whole Vos family came up during the night and worked on the place.

So anyway, check out our new digs.

Here is the main room after the carpet has been removed, the floors have been painted, but before the walls are painted.

That is painted on screen. Works pretty good.

Above is blue room, no, before picture unfortunately.

Above is the before picture of the Red Room.

W even painted this dirty piece of furniture to be nice and blue. Thank you Sam, Renae, Roxie and all the Vos’ for serving the Church in this capacity.

Thanks to all our helpers with the Progressive Dinner this year. This year Norma and Travis helped with driving. The night began at Redeemer and immediately headed to the Thomas’ home for peach cobbler, apple crisp and ice cream. After that the group stopped by the Creecy’s home for tasty fondue. We dipped chunks of apple and bread into the pot, great experience many had never had before. Spring Hill had their prom Saturday and The Lutz hi-jacked Zach’s limo and stopped by so we could all get in. I expect it would be very hard to parallel park that thing, but then who parallel parks a limo. The third stop of the night was at the Basham’s where we munched on tatter tots and french fries while playing air hockey in the basement. The final stop of the night was at the Vos’ home for homemade lasagna and bread sticks. Thank you to everyone who took part in this annual event. More pics after the link below.  

The Vos’ front room with lights strung up. There was also Italian music playing, some famous guy Dean Martin and the song, “Hello Mother, Hello Father, Greeting from camp ?” This song however changed the words to something else.

I left my camera at the Vos house and it returned with this photo on it. I also did some re-decorating in their basement, not sure if they found it yet.

Here is the students table at the Vos home.

Lights in the kitchen too. When Laura tasted the Lasagna she said, “This is good, did you make this?” Julie of course understood that to mean she was surprised that it could be both good and made by Julie. Laura then back peddled as we laughed.

Katie, Julia and Devon enjoying some tots at the Basham’s home.

Chris is convinced his photos from the Progressive Dinner over two years ago look silly so he was a bit camera shy. Sam and Nick made an effort to help him pose for a photo. For the record is pictures look fine from two years ago.

There we go.

Sophie came straight from a dance competition

Katie and Julia

Julia and Devon. Devon has a name compatibility test to determine relationships. I’m pretty sure this is what Pastor Nathan uses in Pre-Marriage Counseling. For the record Norma and Larry’s full maiden names are 91% compatible, Laura and I are 88%.

Connor discovered dipping large pieces of bread into fondue is more efficient than little pieces of bread on a stick.

The girls

Rico is coming up with a future game in this picture. Shotgun it would be called and involve 3 hockey pucks.

Early at fondue (picture by Carmen)

Pierce tasting Fondue (picture by Carmen)

Again with the dance

Chilling in the Creecy living room. (picture by carmen)

Texting and Cutting.

The Limo arrives, Devon’s glass is empty. Devon’s glass began empty

Fondue! (Picture by Carmen)

14 people rode in this thing, but I’m pretty sure 30 could have fit.

Fondue for all. (picture by Carmen)

Grace enjoying this giant thing

Inside the limo

Kevin and Scott discussing the pros and cons of Texas succeeding. (picture by Carmen)

More inside the limo shots

Fondue again (picture by carmen

Pierce in Limo

Ubuntu showing them how to ride in style

Fondue

No pictures pleeeaaaaseeee

I now have at least 10 photos of Mich posing like this. Someday I’ll open a photography studio and sell nothing but photos of Mich doing this.

Fondue again (picture by Carmen)

Don’t mind if I do…

Devon is showing what he plans to eat, Sam is showing what he is eating.

Nick looks like he might not trust the photographer. Sweet jersey.

Thanks again for everyone’s help on this night.

Game Night at the Ardiles really was fun tonight. Tomi, Debbie, Travis, Laura, Zach, Joey, Rick, Joy, Tanner, Elizabeth, Emily, Renae, Roxie, Connor, April, Robbie, Michie and myself had a great time. Debbie cooked some tasty Peruvian dish which Travis referred to as, “donuts and mustard dip.” I rebuke him. Joy is the Mal Mal (which Travis calls MoMo) champ while Joey won and then lost at nerviosa. Roxie stuck Tomi with a handful of cards, but it really was nothing compared to Connor’s near complete collection of cards. Thank you Ardiles for having us over for a great night of fun and fellowship. More photos inside post.

This is the hand raising thing I like to make everyone do. I’m pretty sure they love it.

Intense game of Mal-Mal, I’m pretty sure Debbie is only taking a picture so she knows what cards MT and Elizabeth have.

Later in the night up top shot.

Emily and her 124 point hand thereby beating Michie’s previous record of 99 points. Joy had 69 points for all 6 games combined to put this in perspective. I have no idea why Emily’s head is missing, take that up with Debbie or Laura.

Perhaps a video below

At the Redeemer Youth Christmas Party this year we enjoyed all sorts of great snacks, a huge Chick-fil-A nugget tray and then we played some games. Early one we played Birdman and later finished off the night playing honey if you love me please please smile. This lead to some really funny pictures which are in this post.

The object of the game is not to laugh and respond to the person who is it, “honey I love you, but I just can’t smile.” Emily was toast before Joey even sat down next to her.

This picture is from after the night ended. This is all who was left from 10:05.

Emily and Chloe posing for a picture.

Jacob mistook me fora chair, not sure what they are doing.

Hat lost to Roxie here and had to sit between Joey and Rick, not sure she knows how to feel about this.

Joy pleading with Rick to smile.

Early in the night as nuggets were being consumed.

Vos children have some weird tricks.

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Tonight’s Study

Tonight at Breakaway we looked at Jesus’ interaction with the Pharisees in regards to whether his disciples were breaking the Sabbath when they picked food on the Sabbath. This lead to a discussion of each families’ practice of setting apart the Lord’s Day. I encourage you to think about what ways your family might set apart Sunday more intentionally for worship and rest. Perhaps having homework done on Friday or Saturday, I don’t know what it will look like for your family, but spend some time thinking about and then help your children to understand what and why you set apart the Lord’s day from the other six days of the week.

Tonight’s Pictures

Click on “read the rest of the article” to see more pictures from the Hair Style Contest tonight.  Edee, Maggie, Chris, Harriet, Tara and Broklyn. 

Here is how it all started

There are still more photos on the flickr page, click on this link to see them all.