Monday, August 24, 2009

First day of school!!!

So summer is over and school started Aug. 19th! What ever happened to starting school after Labor Day?? This is the one and only year we will have all four boys in the same school, their charter school is K-8th grades (well preschool is there also but they are a little bit separated) Here are a few pics from the first day of school. Of course there are more of Breandan because he is starting Kindergarten!! (and he is the only one that will allow me to take pictures of him at school!!)



Breandan - Kindergarten


Jadon - 4th grade
Ethan - 6th grade
Valor - 8th grade

Friday, August 14, 2009

The rest of summer!!

Well here is the rest of the highlights from our summer. This summer was a stay home summer for us because of different circumstances. We still had some visitors and had some adventures. School starts this next week (Aug 18th) then our busy times start. School, 2 in hockey, 2 in soccer, band ,church etc.The boys (and Mom) enjoyed the time at home and around town (mostly we did do one trip).

I went on my first scrapbook weekend. There were 8 ladies and we laid all our stuff out on Friday in the conference room and spent the night at the hotel. We packed up to go home on Sunday!! I only knew one of the ladies there but it was a great time of fellowship and meeting new friends.


Valor and Ethan were in All stars until the about the first week of July.


Jadon took Jay out on his Father's Day outing. Fishing at Horseshoe lake in Bidwell park.
The Kovacs' and us went to my parents house in Live Oak where you can still do your own fireworks for the 4th of July

Jadon played Upwards flag football. It is so cool they do a devotional at half time for the teams. Caesar was leading the devotionals and he had Jadon help with a illustration. This is an outreach of the Evangelical Free Church.
This was our one trip for the summer and of course it revolved around sports. That seems to be the season of our life that we are in right now. Brannan Island is in the Sacramento Deltas.
Ethan had a mini tournament for Butte United travel soccer in Elk Grove near Sac. so we decided to make a weekend out of it. We went to the games swam in the river and picked our own fruit.
The last four weeks of summer we had two Korean teachers stay with us. They were taking English classes at Chico State. We had a great time with them. Learning more about Korea and teaching them more about America. This is through the college but the families they place them with are Christians (a Christian home stay program). We have an awesome opportunity to share the gospel but more importantly just to show them God's love through our everyday life and to build relationships that will last, to continue to pour Christ into their lives. This is our mission field along with Matthew's cafe. Every time we have students or teachers stay with us they become family. So now we have an international family and lots of people to visit in Korea and Japan hopefully some day. We look forward to each time we can have students with us. The teachers we had this summer were Cho and Kang. They teach Elementary and Middle school in Cheongju, Korea
We finally put up the pool that Royal and Denise gave us (Jay couldn't because of his leg) It is a lot of fun and a great way to cool off. Thank you Uncle Royal and Aunt Denise!!!
They made us a very yummy Korean dinner. Jadon is now a pro at chopsticks! Nanna Kovacs' (that is what we still call her) was up visiting the Kovacs' from Kansas so she joined us on a few adventures. It was so good to see her. She has always been Jay's second Mom.
We go swimming at Bear hole in upper park every summer. The boys love jumping off the rock and this year Jadon even did it!! This pic is of Valor jumping and Ethan standing below.