Sports, Sports and More Sports!

Well, our Spurs lost, but the sports continues for our family!  As soon as Emily arrived home from camp she has been playing SA Spike Fest and SA Summer Hoops.  She has volleyball practice on Mondays and a game that evening and she has basketball practice Tuesdays and Thursdays and a game on those evenings.  She is also still getting a horse lesson in as well.  Needless to say, we aren't home very much.  Caleb is still our backyard super star.  He continues to play sports in the backyard and improving his game.  Doesn't matter what game, he's good at anything he tries.  He plays hard and pushes himself to do better.  Some day he will make a great team mate.
We are looking forward to the end of June when everything will start to settle down a bit.  Well, at least as far as volleyball and basketball goes.

Last Sunday we floated the river with the kids and some friends from church.  Super fun.  We saw a snake swim between us and another family, a turtle and a fish jump up out of the water.  It was an adventure for sure.  We rode down a few rapids that the kids wanted to do over, that's kind of hard to do when the river is moving in only one direction.  It was a fun day for sure!

This weekend was much more relaxed than most.  We had a family day yesterday and went to see Madagascar 3 and afterwards came home and swam.  It was nice to not have an agenda.
Today we went to church and our teacher was our sweet friend, Megan Cullip.  Megan is a seminary student at Princeton.  She continues to blow me away with her knowledge and noticeable love for Jesus.  She was rescued by the cross and has an amazing story to be told.  However, it wasn't told today.  We talked about Peter and John from Acts.  Good teaching today.  Our pastor, Scott Heare and his family are in Jerusalem and working to adjust.  Scott starts school at Jerusalem University College on Tuesday!  You can follow them on their blog site at:  www.fromhearetothere.blogspot.com

We've had a recent discovery of a hummingbird nest.  Mama bird is in her nest often and she has two small eggs that we are all waiting to hatch.

The eggs are really small.  That is a red "Jelly Belly" held next to the nest.

Emily is taking notes of any changes.  We look forward to seeing baby hummingbirds!

So, you can read that it's been a moving forward summer for us.  I hope that everyone back home is having a great summer too.

Until next time!

Shalom,

Vicki Marquez