Zoo. Rockies. Football.

With School starting up for my second year we have been pretty busy with football, meetings and back to school nights. Last Saturday we had a good day by starting out at the San Diego zoo with our friends Paul and Danae and their boys, Then off to the Rockies Padres game down town with other friends. Unfortunately we lost...the rockies that is.

I am coaching football again at Calvin. This is our second year ever so it is fun and frustrating at times. We are 1-0 had a big win 40 - 0 last night. I am the defensive coordinator, so my first shut out!

Down Time?

Jayne and I have had some down time. Well kind of. Jayne received an old sewing machine from her grandma and through self teaching she sewed a quilt together of our old t-shirts. She did a great job doing it all be herself. She gives her high school class the credit.
Here are some pics.

The old Sewing Machine


The Beginning


The Finished Project

Michigan Trip

We traveled back to good ol GR last week to see family and friends and attended a college buddy's wedding. Mark and Katie Tigchelaar, who are moving out to the San Diego area, so we are excited to have them come out.

It was a great week of seeing Jayne's Family and getting to see how BIG our nieces are getting. The week was full of fun activities such as paint ball and hanging with old friends for the bachelor party, going to the "other" side of green lake to hang with Jayne's friends at their parents new place (don't worry we did some sun cruising with the Kuipers) attending the wedding and going up to the Walcott's Cottage near Muskegon for a couple of days of relaxing fun.

It is always great to go on vacation....good times

Concert and Beach Church Service

We went to a Josh Gracin concert Saturday night in oceanside. The weather was perfect and the background wasn't bad either. Sunday our Church held its annual beach service. Surfing, Sunning, and Attempting to Skim Board were followed by A BBQ and beach worship service.

A very good California weekend

Braggin' Rights

I'm going to brag a bit.
My Brother in Law Kurt, who lives in LA, is a producer for the reality show Intervention.
http://www.aetv.com/intervention/

It is a powerful show about addictions and many times overcoming them. I recommend it. Anyways it was just nominated for 2 EMMY'S so congrats to Kurt and the show

Weaver + Wedding

My good buddy Adam Weaver came out to visit Jayne and I this past week. It was a great time to visit and catch up and have many laughs. The best part about our friends is that nothing changes even though we don't get to see each other that much.
The week consisted of:
Golf, The beach, Fish Tacos Down Town SD, Gelatto for Jayne, Camp fires in out back porch, and too much fun.

We also went to a wedding Saturday night for our good friends Josh and Carolyn!

Enjoy...

U S and A

Happy 4th to all. Hope you had a great weekend wherever you celebrated. Jayne and I went up the coast to LA to visit brother Kurt who lives in Brentwood. The weekend was full of bar-b-q's, beers and beaches. A great American celebration. We went to Kurt's buddy Zach's house. He is Chuck on the show "Chuck" if you haven't seen it you should.
It's good http://www.nbc.com/Chuck/
Then traveled to more bbq's throughout LA.

Saturday we ate some French toast and bacon by Kurt then went to Marina Del Rey with Kurt's friends and enjoyed a day a the beach. Body surfing, Sun soaking, food and football catch "trust" (a catch game without looking at the ball) It is harder than you think. Dills and I were not that good....1 successful attempt out of too many. A good time by all.

My 1st attempt at a slide show to document the time...