Eagle Ceremony

I think I posted this to FB, but obviously not here. These are pictures from Alex's Eagle Scout ceremony in June.

Eagle Ceremony

Antshillvania Pics (finally)

These pictures are mostly from dress rehearsals. A few are after-performance shots. Sorry Aidan's are all fuzzy, but those were the best of the blurry ones. It was too dark on the stage to capture motion.

Antshillvania

It's February

And I haven't blogged at all in the new year. Don't have much to add at the moment, but I am in the process of uploading a slideshow with a few of our pictures from Disney. It will be playing at the top the blog once I have it all set up. Then I'll need to add some more photos to it.

From our busy household to yours!
>Naomi for the Colliers

-- Trust in the Lord, for He is good.

Christmas 2010 Photos (1)

Wii fun time!

Alex, our TVTroper.

What animal is that behind you, Aidan?

A bug for Bug.

Christmas 2010 Photos (2)

Kyrie on pointe with her new ballet calendar.

The kids listening to the Christmas story before opening presents.

Abi's new jacket matches her new pjs!

Aimee singing in her Dora microphone.

Christmas Letter

Yay! We have our Christmas letter done before Christmas! We are posting the link here on the blog, linking to it through Facebook, and also sending the pdf file as an attachment through e-mail. One way or another, everyone that wants to see our letter should get the opportunity (as well as some who aren't interested at all). :)

Oh, Firefox keeps opening it up at 116% which makes the pictures pixelated. Turn it down to 100% and the pictures should be clear.

Collier Christmas letter

Merry Christmas all!

Love in Christ,
Naomi for the Colliers

2010 Webelos Woods

Well, the Tall Timbers 2010 Webelos Woods is done and in the record books now; over 600 scouts and cubs from the Woodlands/Spring area enjoyed a great weekend with wonderfully cool weather and lots of opportunity for the cubs to visit with the various troops and decide which they would like to join.

A handful of dedicated scouts from the Mato OA (Order of the Arrow) chapter worked tirelessly all weekend to make it all happen: Seth Whitaker, Alex Gumm, Alex Collier and Kevin Dunnican were everywhere -- helping with registration, check-in/check-out and parking, staffing the "Colonneh Cafe" trading post, building and running the campfire, performing an OA call out, and even conducting their first OA Brotherhood ceremony! Without their help, Webelos Woods would not have been possible.

Several OA Advisors were also key to making the weekend work: Chris Jones was the overall coordinator of Webelos Woods this year, and kept things moving -- making sure the camp was prepared and all the campsites assigned, working with the OA ceremonies team on the campfire, call out and Brotherhood ceremony, and pretty much everything else as well. Bryant Dunnican was our camp medic for the weekend, I spent nearly all the weekend in the registration office handling all the paperwork, and newlywed Bobby Warren was our weekend chef (the fajitas were great!).

A number of other scout leaders, parents, and arrowmen pitched in to help at various points during the weekend, and the help was very much needed and appreciated. It's weekends like this when we see scouting at it's best, and I'm proud to be associated with such a great organization!

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Tartan