Friday, May 7, 2010

another round of happy's

OK

First off Happy 54th wedding Anniversary to my Mom and Dad

and Happy Birthday to Grace Anne

Back to Mom and Dad's wedding anniversary,

married 54 years is a major accomplishment and for some reason the anniversary date was not written down on our calendar, so I missed calling them to wish them a happy anniversary by one day. I felt bad about that so I decided to to something special for them.

So, I Googled their name and wedding date and Low and Behold I found a video of their wedding procession!  someone must have recorded it and posted it on the Web.  So I downloaded the video and added colorization to it.  I cannot believe Uncle Jack was so athletic.  Here it is, I hope everybody enjoys it. Just click on the link below

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-q-fsYQPZw

Not only did I find their wedding procession I also found their first dance at their reception.  Google is just amazing, there is everything on there!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9XfzvuVhhs

Well everybody enjoy their weekend

Still no news on my interview

Posted by Randy

Saturday, May 1, 2010

Congratulations to Michael

Congratulations goes out to Michael for making his First Communion today.

Wish I was there to help celebrate your special day.

OK.....Actually..... also to eat some cake, but it would have been fun to be there

Good Job Michael

Posted by uncle Randy

Sunday, April 25, 2010

Howdy from one of the folks!


Still no news regarding my interview, the word is they will make an announcement after April 30, 2010

Sarah has another job interview down in Burlington, Iowa on Wednesday at the Notre Dame Catholic School for the 5 - 12 grade band teacher position.  I hope everybody will keep her in yours prayers for that position.

We went to Sarah's community play last night.  It went really well and Sarah did an excellent job, along with the other members of the cast.

After the play was over we were standing around talking to Sarah and another member of the cast came up to Sarah all excited and said "Oh!  is this part of your family?  I want to meet your folks!" 

So I thought, that is a shame that my folks and Caroline's folks are not here to meet her.  Then the light bulb turned on and I realized "Wait a minute"  that "Folks" term referred to Caroline and I!!!!!!

We have just moved up to a different level of terminology!  We have now been classified as "FOLKS!" We are no longer "The parents of .........."  or "these are my parents"  but now we are "Folks!!!!!"  I wonder what new duties and responsibilities are required now that we are "Folks"

It was chilly and rainy this weekend.

I harvested my first batch of Asparagus yesterday.  I have not cooked it up yet.

have a good week everybody

Posted by Randy
just one of the folks

Sunday, April 18, 2010

Robin Hood Schnoebelen!

Philomena went to her first Archery tournament today, she was entered in the Junior division.

She smoked the competition! and won first place in the Junior Division!  She won her first medal!  She was not just a little happy, she was A LOT HAPPY!  And so was I.


The 4-H club has started an archery club, she joined it and doing quite well at practice.  It paid off at the tournament.

I think she is ready to shoot an apple off of her mom's head!

Philomena shot trap for the first time last Tuesday, she did  well busting 8 out of the 25 for the first time shooting!

Daniel received a 2 rating on his French Horn Duet at music contests last Saturday, Good job for Daniel!

I took Sarah up to her job interview last Tuesday at Lake Park, Iowa. She will know the outcome on Tuesday. It is a nice community, I hope she gets offered the job.

Still no word or decision regarding my interview last Friday.  It has been over a week now.

Happy shout-out birthday wishes to Anna, Marcy, and Michael!  Hmmm, someone young, someone older, and someone younger!  No Wait!......... that is a wedding thing!.....or I just made that up!

posted by Randy

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Interviews

I had my interview last Friday, and I believe it went well.

I spent the next day going over my answers and saying "Oh, I should have said it this way" or "it would have been better if I said it like this"

But it is over, and we should know the outcome in the next few days.

Sarah has an interview today up in northwest Iowa west of Spirit Lake so I offered to be her driver so the drive would not be so long and tiresome.

Things are warming up and turning green so that is nice

The kids have gotten down their bikes and are taking to the street to ride them

Philomena is going to shoot trap at the Ventura gun club tonight, and she has an archery tournament on Sunday.  She is doing very well in archery.  She cannot shoot an apple off mom's head yet, but pretty close.

Daniel had a camp out last weekend, they went up to a scout camp north of Stillwater, MN and they made 6 dozen cinnamon rolls for Sunday breakfast for the scouts who attended.

Daniel and I are going to try our luck at Turkey hunting this spring so we are going to go out during 4th season which is in May.  We will try our luck down at the 80'

A Happy belated Anniversary to John and Arlene

Birthday shout out wishes go out to Joey, Val and Mathias and also to Anna whose birthday is creeping up next week

everybody have a good week
posted by Randy

Monday, March 29, 2010

interview date

I have my interview date scheduled for Friday April 9, 2010 at 1:00 PM for the supervisor position.

The interview will be down in Des Moines

the ice is just about off the lake

take care everybody

posted by Randy

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

The snow is going....going.....going....gone!

Well the snow is just about all gone, so I thought I would post a before and after picture of our Buick that was buried under the snow and now has re-emerged, it is almost a 6 week difference between the pictures.









I have not tried starting it just yet, we need to fill the front tire first.  As you can see by the comparison we had quite the accumulation of snowfall.

Now our Rhubarb is beginning to pop up and things are slowly getting warmer, there is still ice on the lake and people are still walking out on it to fish.

They finally opened the supervisor position for my area and I put in my application for that position.  No word yet on interviews

Mary was home on spring break last week and we celebrated her birthday.  We were glad to have her home for a week to just "hang-out"

Sarah has her play production with the Tripoli High school students on Friday night we will be attending.  We are looking forward to watching that.

Matthew will be hiking in Texas over his spring break next week, and that will be a lot of fun for him.  At least it will get him away from his XBOX for a week.

Everybody is doing well in school.

We went over to Garner for Parent teacher conference for Daniel's shop class,  the instructor showed us some of Daniel's projects.  Daniel is doing quite well, he made a nice crowbar, and wooden truck and his welding is very good. He has already made a boot scraper and a nice scoop.

Philomena is doing well in dance and her recital is coming up shortly.

Stephen is having fun with cub scouts and he is currently signed up for swim lessons

our sump pump is working very nicely keeping our basement dry.

OK,  second half of the March Birthdays goes out to

Nathaniel,

Greg H.,

Janice
 
Dominica
 
and
 
Raphael
 
Happy birthday wishes to all
 
and a happy anniversary wishes goes out to Carlon and Connie who will be celebrating their wedding anniversary at the end of this month.
 
Easter is just around the corner and Spring has sprung so everybody enjoy the nice weather whenever it comes!
 
posted by Randy