Happy New Year...{ a few hours early}

It is always exciting to think about what the new year will bring and what new adventures are ahead for our family and friends.

The holiday season has gone by so very quickly, in fact, all of 2009 seems to have blown by.

I wish everyone a very happy and blessed 2010!

Happy Holidays

Just a quick note for a brief update on what we have been up to. The kids are all very busy with school and their various activities. Andrew received his drivers license this fall so it has been great sending him to collect Maggie or Chris from their assorted activities. I am busy finishing up with the Christmas shopping and looking forward to some time at home relaxing and doing nothing ~does that even exist??

Time for it to END...

This was started on our overseas assigment as a way to keep family and friends updated on our lives. Now that we are back home and it is much easier to keep in touch .....the blog is going silent. It seems like I never post anymore and while it has been fun ~ it is time to put this into retirement.

Going To State

Saturday was very busy in our house but a GREAT very busy. We started the day at the cross country semi state meet where Andrew and the boys team WON the meet and will advance to the STATE meet next weekend. Andrew set a new PR with a time of :15.46 for the 5K.

We then went to the semi state band competition where Christopher was performing. The band ALSO advanced to the state meet next weekend. SO we will be quite busy again next week but we are excited to see what great things happen next.

District Band Competition

Today was the district competition for band! It was a COLD and WINDY afternoon but there was a lot of great music. Here is a video of part of the band's performance. The show is called the 'Heist' and is based on the movie the Thomas Crown Affair. The music was created just for the band and has been great to see it evolve from band camp this summer. The band earned a Gold rating and will advance to the regional competition in a couple of weeks. They also won best music, best visual and best general effect.** Chris plays the bass drum and he is the last on the far right!

Flashrock Invitational

Here is video of the cross country meet this past weekend. Andrew can be seen at the very beginning as one of the two boys running to the front of the pack. {on the right closest to the spectators} You then see him at the other points of the video...at the 1 mile mark he is on the inside left....He had another great race...finished 8th in his race out of 197 with a time of 15.52 and 19th overall with both races combined of 384 runners.

Enjoy!

School Picture Time

The boys both had school pictures a couple of weeks ago and we got them in the mail today! I have to say I LOVE THEM! Both photos captured the boys well. Christopher Freshman year ~ age 14

Andrew Sophomore year ~ age 15 {16 in 2 weeks}

I scanned the photos so they are not the best quality but you can get the general idea of the photos.