March Madness!!

Well coaching in a foreign country was not as foreign as you may think, considering half my team are westeners and all speak english. The season was alot of fun and 2 of our loses to high school teams where to the best team in the country (they made 20 3ptrs to our 0!) and the biggest international school in the country. Our other two loses were close games to 2 of the top college teams in the country. Thats right we played several college teams and beat some of them. Needless to say the college competition is not as strong here. The college games were always competitive and physical.
So...how did the national international tournament go last week? Well the boys went 5-0 winning convincingly in the championship game! The boys played extremely well on defense, setting tournament records in points allowed. We played better in each game and peaked at the right time. We had an eight grader, 2 ninth graders, and only 2 seniors on a team that played very mature. I am extremely proud of our team and not just for the win.
These group of young men are the most respectfuli have ever coached. They adjusted to a new coach and played with all there heart. We saw the Lrd move in a mighty way as we learned about how to live and play before an audience of 1!!

Happy 2nd B-day

It's a little late but on Dec. 29th our precious Caleb Wade turned 2! Our babies are growing up so fast!! We're already sad and their still toddlers, haha! We are so blessed to have such great and "energetic" boys. Besides Joshua, Caleb is the cutest two year old ever. His facial expressions are unmatched. All too soon will he be out of his cute two year old stage. We're soaking it up along with soaking up Joshua's growing out of toddler stage and Jedidiah's eatable baby stage! Lord help us, we can hardly keep up!

Little Gamecocks

Ofcourse for Christmas we asked for Gamecock gear! People over hear gotta know who we pull for, eventhough most of them have never even seen American Football! It makes us feel better anyway and it also reminds our boys who we pull for as if they don't hear from their daddy. Aren't they so cute!!

Safari with Papa

We had such a great time when Papa, Josh's dad, came to visit! One of the places we went was Taman Safari, one of Joshua and Caleb's favorite places. Ofcourse having Papa there to experience it with made all the more fun for them. We stayed 3 nights and did all there was to do. We wanted Papa to get his fill of the best attractions here! We'll be writing more about our adventures with Papa.

Just 23!

I turned 23 on Christmas Eve, I know I'm getting old, haha! And my precious husband took me out to dinner while Papa watched Joshua and Caleb. If I've said it before I'll say it again, We couldn't have gotten a better babysitter. The boys didn't even know we were gone, but being the old married couple we are instead going to the theatre to watch a movie we decided to come on home and watch one on our own TV! I have to pinch myself sometimes when I realize I have three boys, make that 4, and living in the situation I am living all by the age of 23. The Father has blessed me!

Family Christmas Photo

With Tony, Josh's dad, here visiting we were able to get a family picture in front of our Christmas Tree but ofcourse you can't see our Christmas Tree now that our family is growing, so there's another picture of our Christmas Tree. We did all we could to make our home feel like Christmas and ofcourse our tree was a great way to share about the Son. Sad to say but this was our first Christmas actually having to buy Christmas presents for our kids because usually they already get way too many from family. We really enjoyed buying them gifts though. This was definitely the beginning of different Christmas's for us but still celebrated for the same Reason!

Christmas Tree and Joshua

It cost a little more here,($13 for one strand of lights!), but we have a fake Christmas tree and have got to share the story through it to several cousins! From the star (virgin birth), tree (cross), lights (light of world), and gifts (greatest gift of all). I thought about it and cant remember sharing these things in the states but want to encourage you to do so.
Joshua also has taken advantage of the many visitors to our house lately by sharing the full story with his teacher last week as he walked her through his picture "book".