A few years ago, we decided to start taking a week's vacation to be team leaders at PYC. It was alot of fun, and we loved doing this together. Our teams took first place the first three years, and we enjoyed coaching them toward their best...whatever that meant for each of them.
After Kaitlynn was born, it became a little more difficult for it to be a "team" effort for us. Not that we weren't used to dragging babies with us everywhere we went...that was typical. It was just hard to have three little ones (2 that didn't want to be right with us every minute, but were too young to run around the campground on their own, and 1 that was still a toddler), and try to keep up with a 7:30 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. non-stop schedule. The last year that we were team leaders, Greg did most of the leading, and I corralled our kids and did grad work. We knew that the teams really needed more than what we were able to give them, so we decided to put youth camp on hold for a few years.
In the meantime, our school began attending Heartland Regional Student Convention, and it became our responsibility to serve as male/female sponsors. I took care of all the paperwork, fundraising organization, and helping students prepare entries, and he helped with the physical aspects of fundraisers and anything athletic. Because student convention was a huge part of Greg's Jr. High/High School experience, he is passionate about it. It has been so good to have him helping me with this.
Last year, things changed up a bit. It was Greg's first year to serve as Athletic Director at the convention. He became much busier, but since the outgoing director was still at the convention, he had extra support and help throughout the week.
This year, things really changed up! Weeks before convention, his smart phone became his best friend (or worst enemy...not sure which at times!). Lining up a host of people to help with events, making sure athletic facilities and equipment were all set up and ready for action, and a million other little details of which I am probably not even aware. He still served as our male sponsor; the other activities were just additions to his responsibilities.
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| Awarding LOTS of medals! |
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| Helping with pre-rally fun |
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| The videos put together by Dave Roeser were so entertaining... definitely rally highlights! Here Greg was helping with some of the staging. |
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| Success! |
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| This photo was from the big screen...Roeser is hilarious. |
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| Caught! |
A busy, stressful, tiring, awesome, blessed week, and we're already planning toward 2012! It will be here before we know it!
Link to convention videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ufq40m_QkoI
This is day one...you can get to the other three from there.
