Major Catch Up

We, as a family, have been so busy lately. I just haven't had the time to update the blog the way that I would like. I thought I would try to catch everyone up on all that has taken place in the last few weeks. Today Philip and I were able to spend the whole day together. We went shopping... I'm pretty sure that wasn't Philip's first choice but I had to do some things. We shopped for Christmas and a little clothes shopping. Philip's parents have given us money to go to Bangladesh this Christmas. We will be leaving after exams are over for the kids. We have lots to do to get ready for that so I wanted to get a head start on things. The weather is finally cooling off a bit and I'm loving it. I'm making taco soup tonight and planning on having some hot chocolate later.

For the most part our lives right now revolve around school projects, soccer practice, soccer games and church. Brice has started practicing with the high school team and they don't get finished until 5:30. He is playing for the rec and D2 teams and has practice for those teams during the week. Shelby and Eli have practice for their teams and games that we have to juggle. It is crazy some times. Brice will be playing in a tournament this weekend with his D2 team. It is a select tournament so it will be tough and then we find out that we will be playing in the U-17 bracket! I hope it goes well. I will try to get some pictures this weekend.

Brice and Shelby are involved with their youth group, Amplify. They meet at Davis' house on Wednesday nights. They have a lot of fun! They also volunteer at the church in various roles. Shelby loves the nursery and Brice enjoys leading the preschoolers in their worship time. I'm really proud of them.

Shelby and some of her friends from Amplify.

Brice and Baylie with Lawson. He is the son of one of the Amplify leaders.

Brice with his friends, Joshua and Bray.

Brice with Lawson.

Some of the preschoolers dancing during worship.

Brice leading the preschoolers.

Shelby in the nursery holding Mikayla. (Davis and Kathy's daughter)

Brice and Philip took on a BIG project one day last month. I decided that I wanted the big ugly bush cut down that was blocking the big ugly green box. It was huge. You can see one of the "stumps" that was left. There were 3 of them. Philip and Brice dug them all up. It looks so much better now. Thank you Philip an Brice.

Earlier this month LifeBridge had a fundraiser for a church in Canton. It was a motorcycle Yahtzee ride. Each rider had to pay for a Yahtzee game card and at different locations around town they were able to roll the dice and add their points. At the end we had lunch for them and prizes. It was very successful. I think we raised about $700. The station where we worked was my Brother-in Law's dentist office in Clinton. We had a lot of fun looking at the bikes.

Well, I think I've pretty much caught you up on things. Hopefully I can do better about updating. I'm not making any promises...