The New Year

Sorry this is late, but the new year is upon us. 2010 is going to bring some changes to the vonderluft household Lord willing. In May/June our family will be traveling to California in order to bring my Grandma up to our house so she can live with us. Various people are preparing the garage for a room to be built so Johannes will have a place to stay when she comes.

I’m looking forward to learning many new things this year and continuing to sharpen the skills and gifts that God has given me.

Happy New Year everyone. May God be with you and bless you this year and in the years to come.

Snow Day

Some of the members of our family bundled up in the car today. The purpose was to travel a long distance in order to find snow. The purpose was to go sledding and have fun. First us and the Sturtevants met at the Berkompas’ house in order to decide who would go in whose car. After that was decided we started on our journey. Everyone brought along a lunch. The snow day started with a snowball fight-snowballs were made with ice instead of snow because the snow was too powdery and would not pack together very well. After the snowball fight various people tried out the sledding tactics. Here are some pictures of that adventure.Snow day
Karl
Here’s Karl falling off of the sled.
Galena
Galena sledding down the snow covered cliff Cliff Statues

Here are the cliff statues.

Lydia’s Birthday

Lydia's Birthday
Friends Talking
Friends

More Beach Pictures

Sand Dollar

Sand Dollar 2

Sand dollar 3

Our Beach Trip: Part 4

Peter riding a horse

Beautiful beach scenery

Peter at the bat

Indiana Jones

Iona and Greta

Our Beach Trip: Part 3

Friends

Jacket picture

Three in the storm

Galena and Peter

Our Beach Trip: Part 2

People jumping

Peter in the Hollow tree

Iona on the phone

Seagulls

Beach Volleyball

Our Beach Trip: Part 1

Our family has been having a wonderful family vacation at the beach. Each day is a new adventure. Here are some pictures.
four girls

Dad and Mom

My cute baby sister; Iona

Me

The sunset

Heritage Weekend

This past weekend was Heritage Weekend. The week was very full and enjoyable. On Tuesday, several families took a trip to the river. We talked and some little kids had fun in the water. On Thursday, there was a family movie night at our Church. We watched the movie called Flywheel. It is about a man who works for a car deelership. He has the habit of cheating people when they buy cars. At the end of the movie, he gets right with God and learns his lesson afterwhich God blesses him greatly.

On Friday, the conference started. Kevin Swanson spoke about the family and the heritage we have in Christ. He expounded on the state of our culture and how we can improve and reform it. He talked about our roles and how we can expand the Kingdom of God on this earth. The conference brought a lot of Biblical understanding to my heart. I’m sure others benefited from it as well.

On Saturday, the conference started at 10:00 in the morning and went to 12 noon. He closed his conference with the cultural view and how we can turn it around. The conference was topped off with an enjoyable barbeque and an English Country Dance. I had fun.

A Day at the River

We took a trip to Lewisville Park today in order to cool off from the Summer heat. Here are some pictures.

Iona at the river

Peter and Jeremy

Peter and his Fish

Kaylee inspecting the water bottle