Turning Hearts Celebration

Sorry this is so late. Mom has not put any pictures of  Christmas on the computer, so I will be posting about OLD stuff!!!!!!  (Note from Mom – I am out of memory and my computer doesn’t like it!!!  We are trying to make a decision on a new computer so the boys can use this one for their school.  Hopefully we can come up with a good plan for all my pictures!)

In September, on Labor Day Weekend, we went to the Bontragers house for the 11th Annual Turning Hearts Celebration.  Every year they have a different special speaker.  For 2013 they invited the Duggars.  They have 19 kids and 1 daughter-in-law  and 3 grandchildren.  I will give the Bontragers blog at the end of the post.  There were about 1000 people there. 

Here are some pictures.

The whole Bontrager family

(Note from LL – they have some good CD’s.)

The Duggar family except Jana and Josh and Anna. 

Singing

Left to Right Rebekah, Elizabeth, Denver, Taylor, Hudson

Boys playing football.  I see one Plattner child.

Jesse and to the left of him are Jedidiah and Jeremiah Duggar.   Jedidiah and Jeremiah are twins.

The whole group of boys ready to play football. 

Javan said they numbered off and there were about 80 boys playing.

(LL – they divided into 8 teams.)

Javan loves to play football.

Javan always charged the guy in the yellow shirt.  Javan said he got pretty frustrated.

Let’s get some action!!!!

OUCH!!!!!!  It is just ketchup.  When I was trying to open my ketchup I  was having a hard time but I finely succeeded and got bad results.

The evening concert - the Duggars and the Bontragers performed some more.

Playing as a group.

The girls singing the Lords Prayer.

After the concert was over they set up a big game of volleyball.  We had to leave.  We would have stayed longer but we had a 3 hour drive home.  We got home about 1:30.
You can see more pictures on the Bontrager blog here.

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(LL – we need to work a little on humility!) 

Flood!!!

In July we experienced a flood.  (It was not the first time we had water come into our house.)  It was a HUGE flood.  Well more outside than inside.

We found water coming in threw the laundry room.

(From LL – we are not on a flood plain.  Our tile behind our house is too small for when we get a lot of water in a short amount of time.  We added on in the back and it makes an L shape.  There are several roof lines converging at one spot.  The drain spout comes down behind our laundry room and thus it gets the flooding.  Chad intends to lay new tile – hopefully before another flash flood!!!)

WATER

More WATER!!!!!!

No, your eyes are not playing tricks on you.   The water was up to my shoulders.

The water was HOT well not really, it was comfortable.

Mud slide

The mud slide was fun but at the same time it hurt.

We had some friends kayaks in our barn and we put them (and ours) to use.  We had fun on the double kayak.  We played King of the mountain.  (Well maybe I should call it King of the double kayak.)   Thanks Sauders for letting us borrow them.

Are you sure that is wise Javan?  (Jeremiah is in the stroller and Javan is putting the stroller in the water.)  Do you think that is WISE?????

Jubilee

Me, Myself, and I

Jeremiah is always usually HAPPY!!!!

We had so much fun.

We headed down to Prairie Creek and took a look.  And this is what we SAW!!!

Any body want to go swimming in there????

All on the ranger ready to go back.

BOOOO!!!!!!  It was all gone the next day.

(LL – This flood came right after they were asking us to make our front yard into a lake again.  It was a lake years before we moved in but somehow all the water drained out.  I feel safer not having a lake in our front yard anyway!  Maybe when our littles aren’t so little.) 

Loading up the kayaks on the Ranger.

 

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Pictures

Mommy didn’t have the time to take our pictures this year so we had them taken at JC Penny’s.

Jesse 15

Javan 14

Jared 12

Jolene 10 1\2  I will be 11 on March 4th .

Jubilee 8

Jonas 6 1\2

Johanna 4

Jeremiah 20 months

The whole family

The Men

The Ladies

Daddy and Mommy

Anyone up for a challenge?  Our photographer missed a small detail in one of the photos – did you notice?

  This picture is one I really like.  When we were at our friend’s house, some of us girls went out with our cameras and were taking pictures of each other.