Baseball

Sorry for the lack of posting lately. It seems like things just get really chaotic and nothing gets done some days. We signed the boys up for baseball this week. Jeremiah is going to play Tee ball and Jonathan is going to be playing Pee Wee. And through a strange twist of fate, I have been volunteered to be a coach for Jonathan's team. A couple of the homeschool families were talking about it last week and voila; I'm a coach.
In other news, keep praying for Amelia's upcoming surgery. We are now just over a month away from the surgery date and my parents and Amelia's mom are planning to travel up to help. It is going to be quite a time.
In church news, things are going well. We have had two people make personal decisions to ask Christ to be their Lord and Savior so we are starting to see the fruit of preparing for a harvest. AWANA is over as of tonight. We have a parent night planned and one of the girls who helps with Sparks has put together a DVD of pictures taken at AWANA. She did an exceptional job and it looks really great. We are going to use my laptop and a projector to show it to the parents. I will try and get some of the pictures that we took up in the near future.

Catching up

It has been a busy week or so. We had a guest here at the house the last few days. Bro. Mike, our former pastor in Arkansas, does a Bible teaching ministry now and we scheduled him to come here to our church. It was such a blessing for us and for the church as a whole. Our whole group really enjoyed the studies and I believe the Lord will use this as a springboard for us in our ministry. We had a lot of fun spending time with him these last few days as well. We took a side trip into Canada yesterday just for fun.
The kids are really doing well. I will post some more pictures soon. We were taking pictures tonight at AWANA to put together a slide show for parent's night in two more weeks. It is hard to believe that we are done with AWANA for the year after just two more weeks.
I am trying to get more involved in things around the community. I have been trying to sign up for a Tuesday night golf league (it will give me a good reason to play regularly) which will be good for excercise and getting to know more people.
It is definitely starting to warm up here. Yesterday we hit the 70s for the first time in a while and the snow has almost completely melted from around town. Only the really big piles have any snow left now.

Allie's Birthday party

I am late getting this put together, but better late than never as they always say. Here are some pictures from Allie's party at the church. We have another lady in our church with the same birthday a few years before. She came to the party and wore a crown with AllieRose. They had quite a good time playing games and laughing. Here are the pictures.

Here is a picture of Allie next to her princess cake.
It turned out quite good I think

This is AllieRose and Violet, the two birthday girls, together.

Anyone who knows my wife, knows that she is very creative and resourceful.
Here is a game of "Pass the Poison Apple". It is kind of like Hot Potato, but with a Disney princess twist

Another of Amelia's very creative ideas. Pin the {something} on the {someone/thing} has become a party staple. I am always amazed at what new version she can come up with for each party theme our kids choose.

Curling update

I got another crack a curling last night. I had a lot of fun and one really embarrassing moment. I also remembered to take a few pictures of the club before I went out on the ice. Practice really does make perfect. I was able to make the shots without falling over now and I am starting to learn how to make different shots as well. Unfortunately, I will now have to wait until next season to do anything more. Last night was the last night for the men's league. Oh, well. I am really looking forward to November. : )
Here are some pictures.

By the time I started taking pictures there were only two games still going. The other ones had ended a little early.

The guy in the foreground of this picture with his back to the camera is the one who is helping me to learn the sport.

I should have taken some more pictures, since this game went to an extra end. There were some really good shots in the last two ends of this game.

These teams played one of the wildest games I have seen. They left a lot of rocks in play and scored a lot of points on several ends.