Sunday, Dec. 2, 2007

Welcome to our new Blog!!! My friend Melissa Godfrey opened my eyes to the fun world of blogging... I hope you check our site often to keep up with the family. A lot is happening these days! Since this is the first blog, it may be a little long, but there is so much to catch up on...

Zach and Jade are in 24/7. It is a Leadership Academy that is life-changing and is through our church, New Life. This is Jade's 2nd year and Zach's 1st. We are so proud of their commitment and growth. God is doing amazing things in them and through them - this is just the beginning. They do a lot of community service, service in the church, classroom studies, chapel, camping, hiking and daily workouts.

They are currently training for an Iron man Triathlon which will happen Dec. 15th. In case you aren't familiar with this "activity" it consists of a 2.4 mile swim, 112 mile bike ride and a 26.2 mile marathon...ALL IN ONE DAY!!! They have been gearing up for this since the program began this year in September. Jade did it last year in a little over 11 hours.. Zach is determined to dominate.

They will head to Mexico in January for a missions trip and then in March they go to Africa for their final missions trip of the year.

Micah is in MIDDLE SCHOOL... doesn't seem possible! He is an honor roll student in all AP Classes and in GT. He is learning to play the violin and loves all kinds of sports. He played football, now we are in basketball but his favorite sport is baseball (which will be next).

Ron's business is doing great - he loves it. He is coming up on his first year of self employment. God has been so good, blessing and growing the business. I have linked his website - go check it out.

I have started a new business with 2 friends from church, Emily Waters and Tahnya Palanca - Hizwear.com. It really was a "God Idea"... Christian shirts that are "fashionable". We had our first 3 designs printed in late July. We were on KARK (Ch. 4) by Sydney Hart -A Faith Matters Story, you can still see it at this link: http://arkansasmatters.com/content/fulltext/?cid=60542
that was followed with stories in in the Maumelle Monitor, Sherwood Voice and North Little Rock Times. (WOW) We had a booth at the Holiday House and did very well, but our primary "selling spot" is at our website http://www.hizwear.com/. We had our first international order from ITALY! sooo cool!

We will keep you updated as much as possible and we would LOVE to hear from you so post your comments...

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!