Lots of school pictures in this collection:
Gerald
Linda
David
Teresa
Teresa, Russ, Brandon, Logan
Myrtle Kurtz
Linda
Barbara and Bob Wedding
Slice of Life Vol. 169
Gerald
Category Archives: Russ
Gerald
The Archives: Edition Sixty-Two
These images come from the following folder:
Backup/My Pictures/People/Family/Bennetts/Kahlers/Brandon Kahler
Next week’s folder will be:
Backup/My Pictures/People/Family/Bennetts/Kahlers/Logan Kahler
Retired
“The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.”
-Abe Lemons
Sunday was my Mom’s retirement party. Here are a few pictures:
There are more pictures from the party in the Mom’s Retirement Party Album.
A Small, Intimate Gathering
I had my, what could theoretically become, annual Birthday Barbecue on Saturday. I would like to thank all of the people that attended and made the evening special:
- Bardole, Shannon
- Bennett, Charlotte
- Cousin, Amy
- Daniel, Jeffrey
- Degeneffe, Austin
- Degeneffe, Melissa
- Degeneffe, Scott
- Dill, Colby
- Dill, Dan
- Dill, DJ
- Gorshe, Derrick
- Gorshe, Jen
- Henning, Monica
- Howard, Jesse
- Howard, Kalista
- Howard, Kelly
- Howard, Saydie
- Howard, Taylan
- Hugen, Todd
- Janson, Jay
- Jauhari, Andree
- Jenson, Terra
- Johnstone, Jack
- Johnstone, Jason
- Junck, Sara
- Kahler, Logan
- Kahler, Russ
- Kewer, Jeff
- Krause, Dawn
- McAlpine, Willy
- Nitchals, Peggy
- Parsaei, Nader
- Perkovich, Becky
- Roberts, Lori
- Roberts, Steve
- Runestad, Anders
- Stensland, Carla
- Stensland, Johnathan
- Wever, Ada
- Wever, Amanda
- Wever, Greg
- Yin, Amy
Next year, I will move the barbecue back to its traditional spot of the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend. Feel free to circle the date May 28 on your 2011 calendar that you have yet to purchase. It will perhaps be an even smaller and more intimate gathering. I might start instituting a survivor type invitation policy similar to the fashion of invites that Jay uses for Symposium.
Special thanks need to be extended to the following people:
Sara for taking the pictures for the invitations.
Sara for providing the s’mores goodies.
Jay for making three desserts: chocolate raspberry cookies, key lime bars and apple crisp.
Steve for providing homemade salsa and chips.
Becky for making a pasta salad.
Scott and Melissa for bringing a banana creme pie.
Shannon for baking a fresh rhubarb pie with rhubarb picked from my personal rhubarb patch.
Johnathan for bringing over cornhole.
Logan and Russ for running the grill.
Mom for baking a cake and creating a watermelon fruit thing.
Derrick for being the fire-starter.
Andree for being the best dressed person at the party.
Shannon for opening the party.
Willy for closing the party.
There isn’t any photographic evidence to support that this party existed. I was too busy to touch a camera and Sara didn’t take any pictures this year. Maybe next year I will add “Party Photographer” to the list of Staff positions for this shindig.
If you wish to be hired for this position (no pay, no benefits, possibly a STAFF t-shirt*) simply send the answer to the following question to bennett@photography139.com:
Why would I make an awesome Party Photographer?
I suppose I should start planning Friendsmas now. It can wait a couple of months.
*That is not a joke. There will be staff t-shirts next year.
Vacation Day 9B – Mother’s Day Early
I broke Day 9 into two post because of the large amount of pictures, if you recall. You are about to see the rest of those pictures.
After all the flowers were planted, we all went our separate ways to wash up. Then the family reunited at the Stensland home to celebrate Mother’s Day a week early since Teresa was going to be in the Bluegrass State for Mother’s Day.
Here are some pictures of the celebration:
I know… I overuse this technique…
At this point, Alexis wanted to take some pictures, so I let her take some pictures.
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Then Alexis gave me the camera back to take a few pictures of her hamsters.
The celebration concluded a pretty special week. I think I might be ready for vacation again though.
Last Home Game
Last Friday was Brandon’s final home game. It was the first time that I’ve been to a Boone High football game since I graduated high school.
It was an interesting experience. Some things have changed. Some surprising things happened. I took some pictures.
Dan
Behind the bleachers fenced off.
Brandon is #78.
I was very surprised to see that the underside of the bleachers are now fenced off. That is where all the good stuff at a high school football game is supposed to happen.
I ran into Dan and had a nice conversation with him. Dan has shaved his head since the last time I’ve seen him. Not a bad look for him.
I ran into Dan’s wife Kim. She thanked me for forwarding on news of her work on attempting to block the strip club/juice bar from coming into town. She was very happy that the news had made it all the way to Illinois. She also revealed the real reason why she wants to stop the strip club/juice bar from coming to town. I’m not sure it is a legitimate reason.
It was also exciting that Sara made it all the way from Des Moines to the game. This was also the first high school football game that Sara has been to since she graduated from Ogden. I honestly can’t believe that she came.
Bad Photos
I got all of the old pictures off of my phone. There aren’t a terribly large amount of pictures on there because the old phone is about 4 years old and didn’t have much memory on it.
It turns out almost every picture on that phone ranges from bad to horrible. Although some are amusing.
One major plus of the new phone is the memory card. I can use pictures taken by a real camera for the Caller ID Photo. As you can tell by these images, that will make a big difference.
Mother’s Day Barbecue
Some random images from the Mother’s Day Barbecue
Brandon
Alexis
Brandon
Carla
Carla
Carla
Elainie
Elainie
Jason
Johnathan
Teresa and Russ
Logan
Logan
“The Perfect Marshmallow”
Roasting Marshmallows
Russ
Russ Grilling
Russ and Brandon
Russ
Teresa
Since I know it would be missed if I didn’t post it, the picture of meat.
The Meat
I hope your Mother’s Day was at least 50% as enjoyable as mine.