OK,

It has been quite a while since our last post

Mary just left to go back to camp

Daniel, Matthew and I just got back from a fun canoe trip on the St. Criox river with the scouts, the tornadoes in the area were 15 miles south of where we were camping that night while on the St. Croix.  Our tents stayed dry, and on the ground.

Philomena got back from camp at Schnoenstatt in Sleepy Eye

Stephen was a cub scout camp last week

I finished my Drake summer class last week

Matthew had his Eagle Scout Ceremony with two other Eagle Scouts last week, that went very well.  Grandma and Grandpa Schnoebelen came up for that

Congratulations to Nathaniel for graduating from College, we are looking forward to him coming to Iowa to do his grad program

Congratulations to Katie for graduating from High school.  Sorry we could not make it down for the celebration

Happy Father's day to all the Fathers out there.

Matthew is going back to work at BV on Tuesday.  Still no hair cut.....how long will it grow??????

Sarah is in a community musical in Waterloo,  Joseph and the Technicolor Dream Coat

Everybody have a good week!!!

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Awards and Accolades

Philomena did a fantastic job on her 4-H project presentations today over at NIACC

She is going to the State Fair with one of her project presentation

and for her group skit that she was in she is going to the Clay County Fair with that one

she made a cake that looked like a tank and she received a blue ribbon for that project

As of last Friday I did get promoted to district supervisor for the North-Central district

I will be supervising 14 officer over a 28 county area

Still no word regarding Sarah's interview she had at Notre Dame in Burlington.

Hopefully she will get the interview for Regina soon.

Thank you Val and Melissa's mom for putting a good word in for Sarah to the Regina principal.

Matthew's Eagle Scout Ceremony will be June 13, 2010 we are very proud of him for achieving that goal.
Invitations will be sent out shortly...I hope!

I biked around the lake today and had an average speed of 14.9 mph  that is an all time record for me.

The fitness center must be working!

have a good week

posted by Randy

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

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

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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

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

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