Paintball Party Pictures

Hey everyone! Here are some pictures from the paintball party last saturday! It was so much fun! There were thirteen of us total, six on our team (the red team) and seven on the opposition (green). The green team totally dominated the field all day, except for one of the Revolutionary games, and the big fire fight at the end.

The big fire fight at the end of the day was my favorite. It was a full half hour of intence action. And, I might ad that we REALLY CREAMED THE OPPOSITION ON THAT ROUND! :). I shot a total of approx 1500 rounds all day, and 600 of those rounds were in that last fire fight! I must say that I am SO GLAD that the end of that round came when it did though, cause I only had 10 shots worth of co2 left! :) That's way too close for comfort! But the teamwork that we were able to excersize durring that last round made it everything!

THANK'S STRANDS FOR A WOUNDERFUL DAY! :)

Daniel Hill re-hydrating for a big day of paintball ahead.

Grant Iler re-thinking this whole idea of getting shot at :) LOL!

Stuart strand preparing his last words.



Joseph Erber locked, cocked, and ready to rock.

The green team preparing for battle near their main fort. Oh yeah, last thursday we tore down a fence from some lady's yard in Algonquin, so I brought those fence segments up to the Strands to use as barricades. That's what the fort was made out of, and we had a lot of them scattered around the woods.

Ethan Webb getting ready for another round.



The green team preparing for battle.



All the lady observers watching the Revolutionary area battle :)

The Red team preparing for the revolutionary style battle.

The red team in the favored position preparing to fire!

The troops starved, waiting to eat.

Here are a few other blogs with posts from the day: Joseph Erber, Grant Strand, Ethan Webb

Paintball Day Post Coming Soon!

Last Saturday was a big paint-ball day at the Strands house! There's a bigger update to come, so stay tuned! :)



Methinks Joanna got her hands on my gun and exercised some of her artistic talent? :)

My New Paintball Gun

In preparation for the Paintball Day that Grant Strand is hosting, I recently bought a Tippmann A-5. I got it in the mail on Wednesday, and today I finally had a chance to look at it, and take it out to do a little shooting.

Here's a picture of Caroline with it.

I let her shoot some, and boy is she trigger happy! :)

4th of July Party / New Glasses!

On July 4th the Yen family hosted our entire church + some other friends for a big Independence Day Celebration! We had a BLAST!

The festivities started around 1:30 when a bunch of people met at the Golf Course for a round of Golf. It was my first time, and it was so much fun! Fortunately we played best-ball, so while our team had the lowest score of all the teams it still wasn't terrible, esp. considering that three of the four people on our team had never played Golf before! Our team was made up of Mr. VonHolten, Luke VonHolten, Joseph and I. Needless to say, Mr. VonHolten held our team up :).

After Golf all the Golfers headed back to the Yen's house to join everyone else for a wonderful evening of food and games (football, egg toss, three legged races, and other different types of group games). Toward the end of the night it became apparent that the eggs used for the Egg Toss were VERY durable! So some of the people started throwing the eggs as high in the air as they could to see if they'd break when they hit the ground. Most of the eggs didn't break, but it did grow into more of an egg fight fight than anything. REALLY MESSY! :)

Thanks so much Yen's for the wonderful party!

Sorry, no Golf pictures :(

Josiah and I... We won the Egg Toss! Oh yeah, and there is a picture of me with the Glasses which I've had for about two months now!


Joanna and I... We won the Three Legged Race!

RVC Chamber Singers in Concert!

Hey Everyone! Here's a piece that we (The Rock Valley College Chamber Singers) performed at the end of the Spring '07 semester.

The microphones were at the front of the stage, so they definitely picked up the strings more than the vocalists. But I hope you enjoy it!


Movements 1-4


Movement 5


Movements 6 & 7