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| The Drury Family in the Fall of 2014 |
2014 was a year of... TRAVEL. The Drury family was on the move a lot this year, some of it was for Dave's work, some of it was family road trips, and some of it was combined. In general, the Drurys were "on the road again" more than usual including the following trips:
- A vacation to Nashville and Franklin, Tennessee in March
- A backpacking and camping vacation on Lake Superior in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in July (Pictured Rocks, etc.)
- A day at the Biltmore Estate in North Carolina on the way to South Carolina and Southern Wesleyan University (where Dave preached for spiritual emphasis week).
- Three days in Washington DC in October for a meeting first and the family got to see several key US sites they never saw before (first full DC tour for four of the five of us).
We celebrated, as usual, the Olympics with a meal featuring the classic food of the host country (in this case Russia, for Sochi). Ahead of time a good Russian friend showed Kathy how to make a full meal complete with homemade borscht.
For a bit more on each of us see below:
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| Lauren Drury (Age 9) |
Lauren loves to sing and laugh and perform. She was in the Heart of Indiana Children's Choir in the Spring and Fall with two performances at IWU this year and also in the Marion Easter Pageant. She is continuing with piano lessons at Taylor University and enjoying learning full songs that she can play without looking at the music. She likes to draw, enjoys playing with her Calico Critters, and also Legos. She also spends a lot of her time binge-watching episodes Rhett and Link "Good Mythical Morning" on YouTube. She and her siblings shot a video which was actually used by Rhett and Link in their show (earning them life-long loyalty from the Drury family.)
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| Karina Drury (Age 11) |
Karina is always enjoyable to be around and is especially good working with younger children. She loves the youth group at JC Bodyshop at our church. She has begun playing percussion in the band and started middle-school this year. In 5th grade she was chosen to be a Via Bank teller and security person for a savings program at the school. A preschool assistant for Vacation Bible School, she also ran her own Day Camp in the summertime with about 10 kids in it. She loves to rearrange and decorate her room over and over again. She, along with her sister, also enjoys binge-watching Rhett and Link.
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| Maxim Drury (Age 14) |
Max started a mowing business this year to make some money in the summers (he is proud of the fact that his father has never even started the new family lawn mower). He was received into the National Honors Society and participated in "We the People" mock congressional hearings in Indianapolis this year. He continues to enjoy computer programming and has begun to teach some friends at school how to do it as well. For the first half of the year he played the game Minecraft a lot, but then abandoned it cold turkey in order to play a new game called Destiny on his PS4, which he often does with his Dad (although he claims to be MUCH better than him). He especially enjoys his middle school youth ministry small group through JC Bodyshop.
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| David and Kathryn Drury |
Dave and Kathy both enjoyed their new finished basement which was completed a year ago. They travelled to Orlando in January for meetings, but added a half-day at Disney with great missionary friends visiting from Europe. Kathy has been working to connect the new faculty families coming to work at Indiana Wesleyan University with the community around them. In May, Dave and Kathy went to Canada, including visits to Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick. On this trip Dave was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Kingswood University. Dave spoke at several churches and schools this year, and most of all enjoyed a week in Germany speaking to missionaries from the European and the Turkic-Arabic areas of the world. Both of them enjoyed reengaging more deeply in a Sunday School class at College Church (something that was impossible to do when Dave was pastoring). For his 40th Birthday in July, Kathy took Dave on a surprise trip to Montreal and Quebec City which they loved. Dave didn't know where they were going until the layover flight. Kathy continues to enjoy gardening, cooking, and fun family time. David likes reading, playing games with the kids, and writing paragraphs referring to himself in the third person.
Other Photos:
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| The White House |
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| Quebec City |
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| Lake Superior |
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| Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore |
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| Long Lake, Michigan |
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| Sochi 2014 Russian Meal |
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| Sisters |
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| Siblings |
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| Father and Son |
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Merry Christmas!
Tim Smith