Street Hockey

We recently had our annual Street Hockey Tournament which is put on by Sharks in the Park, a program run by the San Jose Sharks to provide street hockey training, gear, and an annual Street Hockey Tournament. We had 2 teams this year and they did very well. Below are some pictures of the tournament. Later that evening we were provided tickets by the Sharks to attend their exhibition game. Kids always look forward to that!

The older team:


Sharkie showed up and the kids always like getting their picture taken with him!


The younger team:

Older team again:

Group picture of the older team before the tournament. It was a warm day and this is not what they looked like at the end of the day! Robbie Ernst was their coach.

Younger group photo with Sarah Hale as coach:

Thanks so much to the coaches for their long hours put in for practice and games!

Cooking Classes

One of the Adult Bible Fellowship classes at Hillside started a cooking class once a month for the boys and one for the girls. Their goal is to teach them how to cook basic items and just hang out. This class is a young married's class called Kallao. Take a look at one of the boys classes below. You can tell they had a great time.


Below are some of the girls making pie crusts from scratch. They then made pumpkin pie and apple crisp.

Group photo.

Another Saturday class where they learned to make pizza.


Their finished pies! And they were tasty. Thanks Kallao! The kids love these classes.

Vicki's Wedding

A friend of Farm Drive and a frequent volunteer/mentor got married recently. She invited 11 kids that meant a lot to her Patty, Gary, and myself drove them to the wedding which was on the baseball field at Venture Church. Here are Vichy and Rigo reciting their vows:


It was a very warm afternoon but we got some nice seats in the back near the aisle.


After the wedding a picture with Anahi.

The entire group after the wedding.


Rigo with Alan.

The reception was at a local Community Cabana Club. Here is the group at their table in the back. The very far back!

Pumpkin Patch and Corn Maze

Recently when the kids were out of school for a week for a furlough, we took the older kids to a corn maze in Hollister and the younger kids to a local pumpkin patch. The picture below is of the entrance to the corn maze. A field of tall corn that has a maze going through it.

At the maze they also had a huge air pillow that you could jump on. This was a huge hit.

Eventually they got Gary out on the pillow.


Here is the older group for a group picture.

The younger kids had fun on the bounce houses at the pumpkin patch.