A couple weddings, some friends, and many memories

You know, summers have always been great.  The warm sun, lots of time to do nothing...
This summer has been awesome because we have been able to hang out with many friends and we were able to celebrate with many of them at their weddings.

Some of us from our bible study, Young Roads, put together a church league softball team.

We have endured sun, rain, and mud this season, but it sure has been a great time!

Benjy Heins, Jon and Chelsea went to a College World Series baseball game on June 22.  Omaha is host to the NCAA College World Series every year at TD Ameritrade Park.  It was a great night for baseball and about a day before the awful heat wave!

On June 23, Katie Wollman came to visit several of her friends in Lincoln.  She went to Concordia with us and also sang in our wedding with Sarah Wilkinson.  Katie currently lives in Baltimore and so it was crazy to think that the last time we had seen her was exactly a year earlier at our wedding!

From left to right:  Danny Jansen, Katie Wollman, Jon and Jeremy Jank

Danny Jansen, Katie Wollman, Jeremy Jank and Chelsea

On June 28, Mark Donkersloot stopped by for a visit.  He is a close friend from Holland, MI, and his older brother, John, was Jon's best man at our wedding.  Mark is interning with an accounting company that was doing an audit for a company in Lincoln, so he was able to come along.  On Thursday, he had time to stop by for dinner and some games.  He was interested in learning one of Nebraska's famous card game, Pitch.

Yes, Mark is quite tall.  6'8" in case you were wondering...  :)

Valerie Schick, Jon and Mark playing a hand of Euchre. 

After teaching Val how to play Euchre, we taught Mark how to play Pitch.

Jon loved Mark's bear hug :)

We have also been blessed to be able to attend 8 weddings since April 28!  Here are a few of them...


Wedding #5: Michael and Holly Saalfeld.  Sorry we don't have a picture of both of them together, but Holly looked beautiful walking down the isle.

Jon was the waiter for Michael and Holly on their first date in the summer of 2008 at the Seward Country Club.

From left to right:  Joel Sattgast, Nick Suing and Jon
Joel and Jon became good friends during Jon and Chelsea's freshman year at Concordia.  The summer after freshman year, Jon lived with Nick and Michael in Seward.  The four have remained friends and it was great to see them!

From left to right:  Joel and Laura Sattgast, Nick Suing, Katie Blacketer, Jon and Chelsea

Wedding #6: Kyle and Lisa Winter
Kyle Winter was one of Jon's tennis teammates and Kyle and Lisa are both messengers of Christ with whoever they meet.  Their wedding was at Mahoney State Park between Lincoln and Omaha.  The ceremony was at 10 a.m. with a brunch following it.  The rest of the day was for enjoying God's creation and the activities at the park.  It was very unique and just perfect for Kyle and Lisa.

Kyle Kaldahl, Jon and Jeremy Jank

Nolan and Amy Harms.  Amy was the tennis coach at Concordia.

Kyle and Jon with the bride and groom.

Chelsea and Jon with the bride and groom. Kyle and Lisa are moving to St. Louis this Fall as Kyle will be starting the Seminary preparing to be a Pastor.

Tennis Picture!

And one more :)