September Update

Sorry it's been awhile...I'll fill you in on the recent happenings in Vincennes...The first weekend of this month Aaron's Grandpa and Grandma Zehr came to visit. It was so nice to have them here. We showed them around and relaxed at home. His grandma showed me how to make a pie with some squash that they brought us. I'm pretty excited to know that I could make a pumpkin pie using a real pumpkin if I wanted to. They left Monday morning to go back to Illinois.

The next weekend we had a church work day on Saturday. I had so much fun! I just love cleaning, throwing things away, and organizing and that's exactly what we did. We focused on the children's area. Their rooms have been ignored for too long and they need a lot of work. We went through all the junk that was just sitting around and organized some classrooms. The men took down some paneling and put up dry wall. The men also removed 4 pianos and many podiums! Don't worry, we still have PLENTY of both around the church! 2 of the pianos were upstairs in the youth room so it was a challenge getting them down. One of them made it out intact but the other died slowly as it broke off into pieces on each step coming down the stairs. We plan to do more work in the children's area but that was a big start.

This past weekend we were in Marion to see Aaron's sister, Sam, play in a volleyball tournament at Taylor University. She plays for Trinity International in Chicago so that's the best chance we get to see her play. We stayed with Aaron's cousin Tyler and his wife Jena. They go to IWU and have an apartment in Marion. His Grandpa and Grandma Rocke were also there for the weekend. I took Friday off work so we left Thursday afternoon and had supper with our adopted family from college. We also went to their son's soccer game. Friday morning we walked around IWU's campus to see the changes that have already happened since we've been gone. The Christian Ministries building, where Aaron had many of his classes, had a complete makeover. He was a little disappointed it didn't happen before we got out. :) Sam had 2 matches that day. After the last game she was able to leave with us for the evening. We went to Ivanhoes for supper and then back to Tyler and Jena's to play the Wii. Saturday we met our friends Tim and Melody Wright for breakfast. That afternoon we watched Sam play more volleyball. Aaron's parents were able to come for the day too. We left Marion around 6:00. We really enjoyed our weekend. We are happy for the few times that we are able to make it back there.

Here is a short video of Sam getting in a nice hit!
She is #8, the outside hitter on the left.