Fiddlers Festival and Time with Kirsten and Family

We Had a Great Time This Summer with family reunions, Fiddler's Festival, and time with Kiersten and her children. It Was a Great Summer and on July 5 We Received Our formal mission called to serve a senior couples mission in Moscow, Russia. We were called to serve as assistant legal counsel for the Europe East area under the direction of Robert Lochhead as the area legal counsel.

Daniel's Graduation from High School-2011

The Highlight of Our Trip to Louisiana was Daniel's graduation from high school. He had done very well on the Academic Side of his high school career and obviously had great respect him admiration from his friends and classmates.

We Had a Great Visit with the whole family and spend time with grandma Coenen. We are thankful for that time as Ted's father had passed away just beforehis visit.

Visit the French Quarters and Great Dining

Most of you who have visited Ted and Lori remember the great experiences of driving to New Orleans and Seeing the Remains of the Hurricane and also visiting French quarters. It Was Great to Dine with Family and then visit French quarters for special dining. The Mississippi River was at flood stage and it was spectacular to see the amount of water flowing into that area.

From New York City to Monroe, Louisiana

Fortunately we arrived in Monroe so that w could enjoy seeing Daniels Eagle project,where he remodeled an observation deck in the zoo. He did a great job and enjoyed working with his dad and both grandfathers on this project

we were also able to attend is Eagle scout awards CeremonyAnd listen to some of his leaders E explain a great job Daniel had done

His dad and mom and grandparents had great reason to be very proud of his accomplishment.

Morgantown, West Virginia, May 2011

We traveled with Steve & Kiersten To Derrel's graduation and enjoyed Loading the moving Van,visiting, painting there basement, eating,having fun together and enjoying being with Kim Derre , their family and friends.

What a great occasion it was to witness
Derrel's graduation from medical school.

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May in New York City

In May We Spent about 10 days-wonderful days with Steve and Kirsten Doing All Kinds of Wonderful things and visiting some great historical sites in that area and city.Ellis Island,the statue of liberty,high up in the Rockefeller Center, ground zero and many other things. What a wonderful trip and time we get together.

Steve & Kirsten Rented A vehicle and we drove together
To Derrel's graduation
In Morgantown, West Virginia.

Reflections of 2011 January 10-15

After Enjoying the Christmas Season of 2010,we had a January activity for the young single adults at the cabin. I invited Tristan Winegar to go up to the cabin with me on Monday so we would be ready for the activity on Friday and Saturday. Fortunately he brought some friends because we found our big truck and snowcat completely covered with snow as you can see in this picture.We finally uncovered the snowcat, got it started and thought we had done our day's work. We left for the cabin and all went well until we reached the road just passed Hanson's water slide where we found trees down across the road too big and heavy for the snowcat to go over. When we realized we couldn't even pull the trees out of the way with the snowcat, we were glad Tristan had four other friends with him. Some started digging with shovels and others went after a chainsaw. We spent the rest of the day with chainsaws, shovels and the snowcat removing 19 trees it had literally been pushed down by the heavy snow across the road. With additional work on two different days later we had a wonderful YSA activity with about 80 attending at the cabin. It was a great successful event.