GPAC Tennis Tourney/Ashlea Visiting NE
Ashlea came down after teaching on Friday to watch the last two tennis matches of Lindsea's career with Chelsea the first weekend in May. It was nice for Ashlea to be able to see several friends from her college days in Seward as well as in Lincoln that weekend.
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| Ashlea, Lindsea and Chelsea at Lindsea's match. |
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| Lindsea hitting a backhand. |
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| Nice forehand approach Linds! |
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| Ashlea and Chels cheering Lindsea on through the glass. |
Lindsea's team ended up losing in the semifinals of the conference tournament, but Lindsea closed her college career with a great senior season and earned All-Conference for her doubles play as well as her singles play. It has been great for Jon to watch and see how much Lindsea has grown as an all-around tennis player. We are proud of you Linds!
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| Playing some cards. |
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| Nicole, Chelsea, Ashlea and Valerie |
Aaron Runs Half Marathon
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One of Jon's college roommates, Aaron, completed the Lincoln
Half Marathon on May 5. On our way to church, we went to
the finish line to watch Aaron. Way to go Ron!
His official time was 1:40:39. |
Kyle K.'s Birthday Celebration
On Friday, May 10, we hosted several people to celebrate Kyle's birthday. People brought their own meats to grill out and then our plan was to go bowling because Kyle had several free games coupons and it is one of his favorite past times. However, since the bowling alley didn't accept the coupons that late in the evening, we had to change our plans. We ended up going to watch the Nebraska Huskers Softball team (who are currently in the College World Series).
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| The group: Angela, Kyle, Aaron, Ian, Ben, Melissa and Chels |
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| The birthday boy and his cake Angela made for him. |
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| Jeremy and Aaron waiting to enter the game. |
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| L to R: Chelsea, Jon, Jeremy, Ian, Aaron, Angela and Kyle |
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Kyle, Aaron, Jeremy and Ian at the game.
Happy birthday Kyle and thanks for celebrating with us! |
Sarah W. Visit to NE
The second weekend of May, one of Chelsea's college roommates, Sarah, came to visit since her younger sister was graduating from Concordia. We made breakfast on Saturday morning before Jon and Aaron had to leave for St. Louis to go to the Cardinals game on Sunday. Then, on Saturday night, Chelsea hosted some of Sarah's friends and family at our house for a grill out. Thanks for coming to visit Sarah and for staying with us, Ace loved it! Sorry the visit was short but we were happy to see you!
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| Sarah, Chelsea and Aaron eating breakfast. |
Cards Game w/ Aaron
When Jon was in St. Louis at the end of April for work, he won two box seats for a Cardinals game on Mother's Day. Jon and Aaron left on Saturday after lunch to drive to St. Louis.
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| The tickets. |
On Saturday night, Jon and Aaron went to the Seminary to meet up with a few friends. They went out to dinner with Tim, one of Jon's other college roommates, at Duffy's Pub and Grill close to the sem. Following dinner, we headed back to the sem to watch the movie The Avengers.
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| Aaron, Jon and Tim |
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Thank you to Al and Joan Koepke for letting us stay at their
beautiful home while we were in St. Louis. The breakfast
was awesome as well! |
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The four other starting pitchers for the Cards who weren't
pitching that game. |
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| Aaron and Jon in their seats just behind the Cards dugout. |
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| First pitch and not a bad view at all! |
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The third batter of the game for the Rockies flew his bat
into the stands after swinging and missing. The crazy thing
was that the bat landed 5 seats away! |
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One of the Cards assistant coaches giving hitting lessons to
2nd baseman Matt Carpenter. |
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| Some big name players right in front of us. |
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| The side view of the dugout. |
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Aaron during batting practice. Jon had the best chance at
catching a homer during BP but was afraid of jumping on
the little boy next to him... |
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| The line to get into the game when the gates opened. |
The Cards ended up losing the game but it was still a great experience and might need to become a yearly tradition! Thanks for going Aaron.
Nate M.'s Sendoff to China
One of our good friends from Bible Study, Nate, spent two weeks in China with a group from our church on a mission trip. Nate went last year as well and we are proud of him for his ministry he is able to do over in China and back in Nebraska. Glad you made it back safely Nate!
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From L to R: Benjy, Chelsea, Lynn (Nate's Mom), Brent (Dad),
Nate and Josh |
Dinner w/ Drew & M'Leigh and Adelyn
On Friday May 17, we headed into Seward to have dinner and play games with our friends Drew and M'Leigh and their 1 year old daughter Adelyn. Sorry we didn't take more photos of dinner or games but we for sure got some with the cutie. :)
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| Chelsea holding Adelyn. |
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| Jon making Adelyn laugh like normal. |
Benjy's New Smoker
On Saturday, May 18, we headed into Seward again and had dinner at our friend Benjy's house. Benjy had just bought a new smoker from Scheels and it was a great purchase! :) Brats and burgers were on the menu and we absolutely loved the taste of smoked burgers and brats better than the typical grill taste.
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| The smoker could have up to 8 racks of meat! |
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| Aaron, Benjy, Val and Chels |
Young Roads Serves at People's City Mission
Our Bible study served on Saturday morning at the People's City Mission for the second time this year. We had a smaller group again but it was still a great experience.
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| Chelsea and her salad dressings. |
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| Breanna helping get the fruit ready. |
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The ladies of the group.
From L to R: Val, Chelsea, Gretchen, Ashley and Breanna |
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| The guys. Jon, Zach and Aaron. |
Young Roads End of the Year Party at Goulds
Our Bible study had been meeting every Tuesday night during the school year and we had been growing the last few months where we had been averaging about 20 people per Tuesday. Our friendships have grown and we were sad to be taking a summer break but it will be nice to be able to get together over the summer as things come up.
Our buddy Zach's parents live on a lake and they invited the whole group to come over and use their water toys. However, the weather didn't pan out so we couldn't get out on the boat and go tubing, but some of us were able to go out kayaking and on the canoe. Thanks again for the hospitality and your wonderful home Goulds!
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Part of our Bible Study. Missing at least 8 people from this
photo and we are not going to go through and name everyone. |
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| The Wills brought stuff for s'mores and they were great! |
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| Michelle holding all the chocolate. |
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| Lisa, Michelle and Val enjoying the fire and the mallows. |
