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

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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!

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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
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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

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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!
 
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Math holiday...

Happy Pi Day!



















What are YOU going to do to celebrate? Bake a pie with Pi on it, like the one pictured? Read Life of Pi by Yann Martel?

Sing a song?




But in all reality, math as a whole makes me feel like this song:

let's have another round!

March Madness is here!

Which means a string of birthdays

For now I will wish the first half of the month birthday revelers a happy birthday they are my Dad, Teresa, Tom, Mary and Nathaniel

For their birthday here is a cute birthday entertainment video

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

The youtube video was found by Rachel V.  Sarah's friend.  Rachel sent it to Sarah and I thought it was cute to pass along for others to see.

we are starting to see more of our Buick

Stephen went to Breadeux Pizza and made pizza with his cub scout den today

we are all very tired today since we got back very very late from Mary's play last night. It was a good production and quite humorous. Mary did good.

have a good week.

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