Free Indeed!

Well, finally another post. I will probably stick a few up from previous events, but since Teresa is waiting on this one, I'll let it cut in line and go first. We had an extremely "interesting" weekend to say the least. We found out about an hour away from Victory that our hard drive with all the videos on it had "crashed". Upon our arrival at Victory, the discussions immediately went began as to whether or not something could "maybe" be salvaged from it if we took it to a tech place in the morning or if we should turn right around and go back home for two of the films which were on a computer at home. (one of them was ONLY on that hard drive... know not to do that again!) The decision to drive home was made and at about 3:30 a.m. my car headed straight back to the place of whence it had just come... only to return to victory again at about 3:15 the following afternoon. Meanwhile back at Victory, our soccer team was doing stupendous! At the end of the day, they were undefeated and were set to play in the semi finals the next morning. "Delaware Rwocks!" Sat. afternoon, Daniel and Abraham "accidentally" found almost all the footage they needed which they thought was only on the hard drive on my laptop. (I had told Ben to delete it and he forgot for some reason... : ) wonder why that was) So they were working furiously up until the last 2 min. before it was supposed to be shown. I think they should get an award for the fastest editing job ever. Quite flink they were! As for the feast, I don't know if I can even give an accurate description. I didn't see all of it anyways..., but to tell about the whole feast would take a very long time, so I'll just say, I am extremely thankful to have been able to be along in any small part I had in putting the feast together to make an "edifying evening" as our announcers stated. If you want an account of the feast with pictures I'm sure there will be an article on ottawa.brunstadworld.org. very soon as they are much better at updating than I am. I wasn't able to take many pictures of the actual feast since I was in and out and up on stage as well as in a very bad spot so here are just a few of our practices at home and of the soccer team who finished 2nd to Ottawa after beating Urbana in overtime in the semi's. Fantastic job guys!

"Everybody who loves Victory put your hands up!" The kids were the best!

Dress rehearsal at the meeting hall

Verba made cool stage flower arrangments

Saving our film : )

Kids choir waiting for the feast to start



I think our soccer team got in some of the weirdest positions. Note the following pics. They aren't the best quality, but still funny/cool. An this isn't all of them. : )

Not really a Beachy...

They were awesome! Plan on 1st next time! : D

Fellowship Week - Victory

Hey, I got an extra min on my lunch break so I decided to post something about the fellowship week at Victory. I was really glad I got to take the time off work and stay for the whole conference. Sat. was just a really nice relaxing day to visit catch up with people, play golf (for the brothers - I still never heard who won that tournament... anybody have any clue?), choir practice and then a youth meeting in the evening. Sunday morning was a children's mtg with a musical preformed by Ottawa of the story of Joseph which was AMAZING! Since most of the music had been used last year at Brunstad, all the songs were duly stuck in my head for the rest of the week! Later in the afternoon we preformed all our choir/band songs along with a few other performances including a quite funny one by the 4 idiots. : ) Monday was Outdoor Challenge day. I think everybody was really excited for that! Our team didn't win, they gave 100% and I think we'll have a bit better idea what to expect next year. Tues. was children's day and we had quite a collection of activities. I didn't get too many pics of the activities, but I took a couple of the ice cream stand, which is functioning better each year I think. Still a very popular hit with the kids (and adults) hehe... half the parents try to steal a bite of their kids ice cream. Tues. evening was a yth/mission mtg which was an extremely good way to end the conference. I am really thankful for the time there and that we stayed for that meeting even though it meant driving home in the middle of the night only to get up at 6:30 a.m. for work the next day. "This is a coffee drinking ordnung? Praise the Lord sister!"




Victory now has street signs and guess what... We live on Delaware St.! : )

I think the bar for the size of the poster that leads the parade has been lowered....

Ottawa's play (gotta love the make up jobs... musta been an inch thick!)

Can we say sassy?

Our team all chained up. They worked really well together! Awseome teamwork!

They had to eat an entire raw clam. They all managed it too! : D


Connecticut & Urbana were in the finals and after a close final Urbana ended up winning.


Can you help but love that face?

From Paris To The Land Of The Vikings & Midnight Sun

July 3rd I left for Brunstad with Aaron Miller knowing we had a long layover in France. We hoped we could take the train out into Paris and see at least the Eiffel Tower. Sitting in Charles de Gulle Airport from 8 a.m. to 6:30 pm did not sound like a very inviting experience so we attempted to talk to some "information" people in the train station to see if we could get there, but they were most unfortunatly not very helpful or imformative. We finally ended up meeting a lady who spoke good English (this is a rarity in France) from Brazil, who was married to a Dutch guy and lived right next to the Eiffel Tower. What Luck! She took us most of the way there until the train blacked out on us and she had to get a taxi and left us to our own devices. We had a few interesting people encounters trying to switch trains, but finally got there. The site was actually amazing! I never would have believed it looked so cool just from pictures. We didn't go up as there was an insanely long line and it cost a bunch of money, that we didn't have and had a hard time trying to convince Hungarian beggar ladies of. We took a few pics, ate lunch at a little cafe right below the tower and then caught the train back to the airport with plenty of time to spare. Was a really cool experience, and if you have the time in a layover it comes highly recommended... it also comes highly recommended to speak more than 2 words of French cause they don't speak much more English than that! We ended up getting to Brunstad about 12:30 a.m. on the 4th so needless to say we were exhausted. Was super nice to be at Brunstad again and to see Teresa again! Heaven's knows I won't get pics of those put of for a long time to come if at all, but here's a few. (can't believe I managed two posts in July! wow!)

At the Fish Restraunt with Teresa (this food also comes HIGHLY recommended!)

Climbed the mountain behind Brunstad one afternoon with Marty and Keri.

Madison Elizabeth

Well, I told her to wait... or just hurry up, but she just didn't listen. Madison Elizbeth Coblentz was born July 6th while I was gone in Norway. Was quite exciting news to get though, and after the whole story of her weighing 6.15 kilos/ 13. 5 lbs was dissolved it was all good. She was a pretty "small" baby at almost 7lbs for our family anyways. She has really long legs and arms so I think she will make a really good volleyball player. Hehe, and I might just be a tiny bit jealous if she can block without hardly jumping. Well, I didn't get to see her til she was two weeks old, but that's ok, I still love her anyways. Baby's only get cuter as they get older so that is cool. Kris and Madison are both doing really well so that is fantastic! I will now try to keep putting pics of Madison up in between everything else around here. It is gonna be crazy busy for pretty much the rest of the summer since we have the Victory Feast in Sept. Well anyways... we do what we can, and what we can't do, doesn't get done. As anyone who happens to look at this blog finds out.

One More Post....

Ok, this post is just to post one more pic of Kris before I leave on Thurs. for Norway. She is now 38 weeks and could quite literally have the kiddo any day. We are having a war around here cause there are quite a few of us leaving on Thurs. who won't be back before Kris has her baby (unless she goes overdue) and then there are others who are currently gone and won't be back until after we leave. So we have two sides hoping and praying she has it before and after July 3rd. At any rate, unless she has it before Thurs. afternoon, this is probably the last pic of her you will see like this. It has been rather nuts around here. I haven't been home for a weekend in about 3-4 weeks and won't be for another 3 to come. Meanwhile, we have had our church outing at Killen's Pond, a baby shower for Kris, Jenn & I took a vacation to Williamsburg (not THAT is quite an interesting story, free vacations come with a price is all I have to say about that at this moment) Maybe I will have some pics on some of those things at some point, but at at this current moment... nicht. This other house picture is for Teresa. It is her house here in DE for those of you who have never visited, and a very nice house it is too. One day it rained really hard and the colors after were so nice. It looked really cool even though I missed the nicest part of the rainbow. Well, will update again after I get back on the 20th. Waaaaaaaahoooooooo! (yes, i'm excited! Don't ask if I am or I might just hand you a sign. ; )