Bed Time

Getting ready for bed, Brooks was in a really giggly mood. He thought the 'hat' was very funny. I thought that adding his new sunglasses to the outfit would be cute. He was not having it though, as he prefers to eat them at this point (so opposite of Kenna at that age, she loved wearing them). So, Kenna decided to display the new glasses for a picture:-)

More Winter Retreat

This is everyone!

A cool thing they do with cups. They do all these tricky maneuvers and it makes an awesome rhythm

During a session

Avalon Hills Winter Retreat

Josh Rieke pranking Brian...there was a lot of pranking Brian this weekend, since he is the new youth pastor they had to initiate him I guess. Brian was to hit Josh on the head with a spoon in his mouth as hard as he could...not very hard. Then Josh did it to Brian, only someone was behind Bri and whacked him really hard! It was hilarious.

A game of basketball during free time

Frozen underwear that said "Go Rangers"

Another prank. Get the underwear out of the ice and put them on in record time.

The leaders doing some weird quad sit-up or something

Donna crawled underneath them and knocked them all down!

Drew and his pants. Don't ask.

Josh and Sarah Rieke, youth leaders

The bus ride to Williamsburg!

Hanging out right before leaving. We had such a great time!

Still Sick

This morning Kenna woke up with a high fever, and kept telling me "ear hurts" so it was off to the doctors this morning. She has an ear infection, and on top of that her cold seems to be worse now too. She is pretty miserable.

Brian was home today doing the lights in the livingroom. Half of the room is done, as you can see, and the other side is almost there...he needs to pick something up at Home Depot on the way to church tonight so he can finish tonight. We're close!

Big Hill!

My mom sent me this picture..."Thought this would bring back memories of your childhood! The imagination, the work and the playtime of yesterday." Haha. We used to sled down the back steps in our yard to get a little more speed...though, as I recall, it was slightly more slopey than this!

Winter Retreat - Video

Ok so, we had the annual winter retreat this past weekend. It involved staying up until 2 am the first night, and most everyone staying up until almost 5 the second night. Yikes! We had our friend Andy Lewis come in from WI to do the speaking, we had 4 sessions on Christianity: A Who not a What, I think was the title, we focused on the person and ministry of Jesus, His holiness, and His friendship. This video will be shown tonight at Youth Group. I guess nothing makes an impression like exploding things. When I get my video camera back I will post some of the other fun/funny things that happened.

Superbowl

We are back from the Winter Retreat! I will post pics once I have some, it was tons of fun, but not a lot of sleeping involved. Then last night Brooks started throwing up. Joy. There is no end!
Here are some pics of our little last minute Superbowl party. Brian is a big time Pats fan, so the game was so interesting to the last second!

Kenna with her best friend, Josh