New Small Group

I am a youth leader for my churchs youth group which is called Revolution Youth Ministries. (see the link on the side)
Tonight we had are first meeting of our new small groups for the year.

I think I have the most awesome group of all the leaders but I am a little bias and well you know ... it is true!
The only guy I have from last year's small group is Brady Funkhouser, which is cool because we click pretty good, and brady is a pretty solid kid! He's my leader!
...the rest of my group is all new to me ... of course I have known all of them for some time now, but just new to my sg.
I get the privilage of having my cousin, Eric Nilius in my sg this year .... I am really excited about this! we'll have a blast!
I also have Josh Jackson .... soccer player extraordinar and a pretty good drum smacker as well!
Next we have Ethan Subra, a freshman that I am excited to get to build into his life! I also have plenty of stories about living across the street from his Grandma and Grandpa when I was growing up.
I also have Richie Semple, I actually dont know much about this guy so I am looking forward to creating a bonding relationship with him!
next is Thomas Heidersheidt, I got to hang with Thomas a couple of times this summer eat'n some chow after church ... we usually had a good time .... and of course I try and use him as my checker when I am at Hy-Vee .... Your the best man ... and he never gives me a hard time about all the junk food I buy! :)
I also have the infamous Nathan Boersma! enough said ehh ... well actually I really appreciate Nate and I am really looking forward to working with him this year in sg.

Well that pretty much rounds out the group at this point! I am totally excited to see how this group gells and comes together throughout the year! I think God has some pretty awesome things in store for all of us in this small group! Me included! I definatly learn from these guys! and I hope they can learn as much from me! What a joy and privilege to serve in this capacity! Thank You Lord!

New Photos

There are new photos up on the Flickr photo page.
So go check them out ... mostly from my trip to the Wild Wild West ... but there will be more in a few days as well! Thanks for looking! www.druewolfe.com

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just talked to my friend jenn on IM tonight .... she is the daughter of really good family friends!
and a student at my old school .... Cedarville University! Go Jackets ...

ok here is a link to here xanga site! check it out if you like!!

Monday Night Sand Volleyball

Well every Monday night 3 of my really good guy friends and I come together to form BHSW group.
No we are not a rock band and no we are not a corporation ... allthough maybe someday?! :)

we do however come together to play 4 person sand volleyball at the Sands Volleyball club in West Des Moines, IA.
This is I think our 5th year doing this, and we usually have a blast being competitive and just hanging out together! I believe this year our current record is 9-4.

However on this past monday night I suffered a minor injury at the hands or I should say feet of one of my fellow teammates. I will live through it, but it is the worst injury I have ever suffered playing volleyball.
well here is a picture of my unfortuante left foot, which is currently up and ice applied!

Isaac Miller's Birthday Party

Tonight August 27th 2005 I went to Isaac Miller's 3rd birthday party! he had a whole crew of his friends from Church over and of course their parents which of course we are all friends so I guess that works out pretty well! The theme was dinosaur's ... so he got tons of dino's to play with ... I actually got him this pretty sweet motorcycle ... which seemed to be a hit!

He also got a pretty cool toy sword set which set off a couple of duels to the death ... well not really ... but they had fun with them just the same! :)














And of course no birthday party would complete with out the cake! So here it is complete with squigly candles and a dinosaur!

Happy Birthday Isaac!!

August 2005 Vacation

The second week of August 2005 I decided to take a vacation to the Western part of the United States. The first part of my trip took me through the Black Hills of South Dakota, and to Mount Rushmore. what an awesome site!




It also happened to be bike week at Sturgis SD... so as I have never been there before, I decided to take in the sights and sounds of "Hog heaven" for a few hours on the first Saturday of the event. You definenitly see a little bit of everything here.













After Sturgis I head North /West up highway 90 to Coeur d' Alene, Idaho. The town was having there annual art festival in the historic downtown and greens area. This is a beautiful lake side town nestled in the mountains of Idaho. I also did a day trip with a friend up to Sandpoint another neat little town just to the north. I spent two days here just relaxing and enjoying the beauty of the area.

I then traveled back through the forest fires of Montana and droped down into Wyoming and headed for West Yellowstone. I think this might of been one of my favorite nights of the trip, just hanging out in West Yellowstone. The next day I traveled all through Yellowstone National Park. Once again just and incredible example of God's great and interesting creation!

After traveling all day through Yellowstone I drove to Jackson Wy. This is definantly a cool "Old West" town. I enjoyed my time shoping and eating in Jackson. The next day I headed to the Jenny Lake ranger station in The Grand Teton's National Park, to get my backcountry camping permit. Once I had my permit I headed out on the Cascade Canonyon Trail. This is one beautiful and exhusting walk into the mountains of the Tetons! I enjoyed my time backpacking and camping in the back country ... I met several neat couples while I was out there. I also talked to a group of college students that work on the trail system all summer ... building better trials for us to use and help with keeping them from eroading. They were an interesting bunch of kids!
The scenery in the Teton National Park is beyond words Awesome!
I have tons of photos of this incredible area ... but you will have to wait to see these on my photography site sometime in the near future. however to satisfy some of the curiousity I will give you at least one or two to wet your appetite!



After hiking out of the Tetons on a Friday evening I loaded everything back up in my Durango and headed back on the road driving as far as Laramie Wy that Friday night and the next day spending some time in Cheyenne Wy. and then making my way across the wasteland that is Nebraska and on into Iowa and home sweet home. This was a solo vacation by purpose. One just to be able to get away and experience another part of our great country! It has been several years since I have visited this area. but also two, to be able to take my time and get some good photographs to be able to add to the collection in the art gallery. www.walnutstreetgallery.com
but also three, to spend some quality time with my Lord and Saviour in His incredible creation!
Mission accoplished!

first time

well I have a friend named brady that has one of these blog deals
I wanted to post to his so I need to create my own to do that ... so here it is!

my very own blog!

I will post more later as more relavant infromation comes along!
until then rejoice in the Lord Always!

drubie