sarah with the vander kooi kids
the summer wedding season is officially over for matt and i. our good friends, nate and sarah (schaap) dockter tied the knot last weekend, and it was so much fun to be able to hang out with old friends and celebrate a great relationship! above are a few pictures of the event - congratulations nate and sarah! (sorry...i never got a good pic of nate)
shortly after moving here, my friend pam cook told me that i need not worry, dutch bingo makes chicago much smaller. it only took about a week for me to realize that she was right...
our neighbor lady, florence, is one of my volleyball player's dad's aunts...and that dad is also a fellow teacher and coach at timothy. matt and i have been going to faith crc in elmhurst the past couple of weeks and their pastor, lee koning, was a classmate of my uncle ken. dave larson, the advancement director at timothy christian, randomly met my parents when they were making a trip around the u.p. and made a timothy christian connection...but mr. larson also knows my uncle ken and aunt sandy quite well. on friday we hung out with ken and pam and some of their friends...one of which i met on a recruiting trip to ontario last fall when i worked for dordt. when we were at church this morning, we stood up to sing the final song and i look over and see heidi (de rooi) koster - a pella christian classmate of my brother nate's that i hadn't seen in probably 7-8 years. while we were talking with her and her husband after the service, their small group leader came up to say hi and he was jake koerselman's boss while jake was on chicago semester. jake is matt's former roommate and teammate at nw. i really don't know if any other culture is quite like the dutch in their bingo game, but pam was right. it really does make chicago feel just a little bit smaller.
oh, and my volleyball team...we're looking pretty good after week 1 of practice. at least i don't have to guess at what their name is anymore. i try to talk to matt about my lineup dilemmas but it ends up turning into a conversation quite similar to when he asks my opinion about the twins lineup....a blank stare or completely uneducated, guessed solution. our first game is a week from tuesday, so we have some time to figure things out. i know - it's only jv. but right now that's the only thing on my schedule for the day, so i have plenty of time to think about great practices and game strategy. :)
1 comment:
Lindsey,
Pam Cook, she's good people. :)
I LOVE Dutch bingo and loved your paragraph on all your connections. It does make the the world a smaller place and gives you a connection point in conversations when you're just starting to meet people.
Good times.
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