School is Out!

Yippee! Yahoo! School is out for 2009! Two whole weeks to play and do nothing....OK maybe not nothing but it's going to be good! What have we been up to since my last post in October?????? Blowing and going! Caleb rounded out his junior high football career and promptly started basketball. They only lost two games in football and did great! However, basketball is not going to be so lucky. They have one of three games so far. Caleb sits on the bench most of the time until someone gets in foul trouble. He is having fun but is starting to rethink all of the sports stuff. He is figuring out that he has to practice just as hard to sit on the bench as they guys who play. Anyway, he has already mentioned dropping everything in High school except for Band. Band was fun this year. He got to go to all of the football games and march, plus UIL competitions and all district try outs. Plus, their band director, Mr. Bro, has an annual Halloween party and Christmas party that are fun. Also, he got to go the the Sand Dunes of Monahans for a fun trip with the band. During the middle of all of this, Caleb also was in the junior high one act play and did a great job. They won a lot of point toward UIL competition. Caleb also, did UIL Science in Winters in December and placed 8th in district. We are very proud of him.
Jared has been busy with UIL also. This year he was a part of the Art Smart Team and placed 5th in District. He had to memorize 40 paintings and their authors plus know how to spell them. He worked on them every night and did great. However, I think next year he is going to try something different. Learning to spell, "Fantasy View with the Pantheon and Other Monuments of Ancient Rome" by Panini was pretty hard and that was only one of the 40! He also won the kids of Character Award for December for his 4th grade class and was on the "A" honor roll this whole semester!
Aaron was also able to do UIL competition in creative writing. He placed 6th in district! However, he didn't get to go to Winters because he was only in the 2nd grade so they write their story and sent it in. His teacher was so proud of him and let him call me from school to tell me the good news. I think he did awesome!
The boys are loving Miles and loving a small community. We love the fact that homework is so much easier out here. They don't have a lot of extra work and their AR points required are much less! They have loved being able to spend time outside and working with Brian on the pump house.
Brian has been working on home improvements around the new house and has just finished the new well house. It will protect it from the weather and keep my water from freezing! Our "town house" in San Angelo still has not sold. We are in need of a God miracle soon. Our loan is due on January 15th and we must have a contract on it before then. We had a contract for a month and a half but it fell through 6 days before closing because they could not get the loan. It was so disappointing! Now we are back to square one and we only have 26 to sell it. I know God can do this! Please, please join us in prayer that a buyer will step forward.
I have been busy with parents gifts, kids crafts and kids gifts to finish off the year at St. Luke. I have a great class this year and it's much easier than last year but, all the stress of the house and finding a new church is making life seem a little harder. I just try to rest in the fact that God will answer our prayers and that we just need to be still and listen. We have tried many churches since leaving Hillcrest and have even been back to Hillcrest a couple of times. I don't know what God has in store for us still but, will continue to seek him. I know he will never leave us or forsake us and that is enough for now. I hope you and your family has a very blessed and wonderful Christmas! We are blessed and I give thanks for my family and my friends! God Bless!