April 20, 2009

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  April 18, 2009

  

  Kick Off Tournament

  This is a special tournament involving four teams: our current two teams and then men who used to play on the teams pick up a team for this day (Ryan Miller in the red) and a visiting team is invited (the man on the left.) This turns into a fun family day.

   

   

   

   

  

  Ken (on the left talking to his father-in-law) is known to have a big heart.  This is only the second year to have this special tournament and Ken talked to his wife, Dorinda, about giving the proceeds from the food stand to Glenn and Dawn. Glenn is Nevin and my brother-in-law who has a brain tumor. In the last six months he's had three seizures....each time the doctor increases his seizure medication. Then his body needs to adjust all over again as this  leaves him very tired. Glenn was/is a hard working tractor mechanic, caring husband, loving father, and dear friend. He can now only work several hours a day....and on some days, not that.  It pulls on our hearts to see this big, broad-shoulder guy so tired!

   

   

   

  

  Before you bought your food, they had this picture of Glenn and Dawn. We were asked to sign our names on the matt. I know this will be very meaningful to them!

   

   

   

  

  As family to Dawn and Glenn, Nevin and I want to ask the Lord to bless all of you who had a part in this day. Thank You, Thank You for blessing our loved ones.

  Some of the items above were donated....the baked items were made by different ladies and were so  enjoyable!! This was a quickie stop for us as we had guests coming for Sunday lunch and I had plenty to do at home in preparing for this meal. But we wanted to support Glenn and Dawn in this way and when we left home I grabbed my camera as a last minute thought.

   

   

   

  

  When we arrived back home and I looked at our pictures, I realized I did not have any pictures of the busy Mothers doing the behind-the-scene work!!  There were many helping hands there on Saturday. It was a joy to get a picture of these three girls serving the hot dogs and cheeseburgers...two of them are in my Sunday School class. Left: Joanna, Stephaine (moved on to the older class) and Abigail.

   

   

   

  

  Colleen cheerfully served our sodas.

   

   

   

  

  Abigail is serving my Mother a cheeseburger.

   

   

   

  

  Nevin bought french fries.......they were oh so good! This is Tiffani, Ken and Dorinda's daughter. I admired her diligence at this warm and greasy job!

   

   

   

  

  Sarah serving some fries to Jesse....I thought this would be a hard job for me - to not be taste testing!

   

   

   

  

  ~Sabrina's job

   

   

   

   

  

  ~Lelan on the left and Dave making our burgers

   

   

   

   

  

  I'm not sure if this rice krispie is for little Caleb or his mother!  Isn't he precious!

   

   

   

   

  

  I see I did get one picture of a very busy Mother - behind Nevin is Dave's wife, Bev.

  If you want to bless Nevin, make him an oatmeal whoopie pie!!

   

   

   

  

  This was my treasure of the day!! I brought it along home as I thought tea would go soooooo well with this! I heard that Dorinda made these and my mind went immediately to her Mother.  She died of ovarian cancer in her very early 50's and was my dear, dear friend.  She enjoyed making items with yeast and she passed that on to her two daughters. Ruth Ann taught me how to make whole wheat bread when I was a young Mother. I called Dorinda about 8:30 Saturday evening and, bless her, she was still in food and equipment cleanup. (She said the cinnamon rolls are easy to make.)

   

   

   

  

  This is one of Glenn and Dawn's sons, Dan. On the left is my "bestest" dearest friend.

   

   

   

   

  

  We are very grateful to belong to a caring church family!

   

   

   

  

  And this is a picture of the ones we love who are leaning on the Lord. We continue to lift them to Him in prayer.

   

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