Are you ready for some football

For a couple of years now Cameron has had season tickets to University of North Carolina football. Now its not that he has turned his back on his beloved Miami Hurricanes, but he has friends that are UNC fans and they decided to get season tickets together. Its kind of like a guys day out, except its 6 or 7 times from August to November, the best part is that every other year Miami comes to town and he gets to put on the orange and green (and go trade seats with someone in the visitors section). Well this past Saturday was the first game of the 2008 season in Chapel Hill and we (Cameron and Laura) went to the game with Scott, Karen, Heather, Ron, Ray, and Gary. The day was about as humid as it could possibly be (90 deg f with a heat index of 110) and the weather forecast called for thunderstorms, and for once the weatherman got it right. According to Accuweather.com it was going to be cloudy at 5 pm, 6 pm, then thunderstorms at 7 pm, then clearing at 8 pm through the rest of the night. Just before 7 pm the game was suspended due to lightning in the area and we stood under a shelter while it rained and the lightning flashed over head until about 8:30 (hey that’s 30 min late) and then we went back into the rain soaked stadium to finish the game. UNC hosted McNeese State and the game was close until the very end when Carolina pulled away to a 35 – 27 victory.




This was a touchdown


Here is an over view of our game day

Fun in the Son

Last Sunday at church we had what we call “Fun in the Son” day, it a day that all the kids bring there water guns, and wear their swimsuits to church. We have water slides, pools and lots of water, this is the last big fun activity before the end of summer and its back to school.

Laura gets ready to go down the slide


Cameron and Charlie dripping wet


Cameron and Laura racing on the downhill slide


Levi gets wet


Lindsey in the water balloon race

Pig pickin

Tonight we went to a pig pickin at the Boswell house, Danny and Glenda invited everyone from church out to their home for a good old fashioned North Carolina style pig pickin. Danny said it was a 130 pound pig, and he had been up since 5:00 am cooking it. There was plenty of food and lots of room for the kids to run around and ride four wheelers. The weather was great and we had a wonderful sunset to end the day. What a great time of fellowship, it really seems that even though our church is smaller in numbers than it has been in a long time, God is growing His people up and growing us closer together. We have such a great church family, we love them!
Here is the Slide show


The poor pig


Our Pastor Eric

Lindsey hangs up her swim suit

It’s a sad day, Lindsey has decided that she no longer wants to be on the swim team. We told her from the start that we would not force her to be on the team if she didn’t want to be and we are regretting that statement now. It’s sad for us as parents and for her coaches as well because we see so much potential in her, her coach has said on several occasions that she could be a very competitive swimmer if she would apply herself more. The applying herself part is the problem, she just isn’t motivated to push herself to her limits. She has been on the team for almost two years and it has been good for her as far a physical fitness, the friends she has made, and experience of competition. She just does not have a competitive drive required to keep her interested in swimming, we tried to encourage her to stay on the team for one more season but in the end she simply did not want to do it any longer. She has now started working out with her mother at the local health club. :(

Bedroom Makeover

Since moving into our house we have slowly but surely made our way through every room of the house and have replaced the flooring, painted the walls and made our house our home. Well, the master bedroom and bath were the only rooms that had not seen a total makeover (they had been painted, but floors were in terrible shape). So after all of the summer visitors had made their way home it was time to displace ourselves and take care of our room. Most of the materials were purchased at the end of last year when we bought the flooring, trim, and paint to redo the kid’s bedrooms, so it was just a matter of getting all of our stuff out of our room and beginning the process. We took all of our furniture and spread it around the house, filling the kid’s rooms with furniture and their closets with cloths. We put our bed on the floor in the living room for a few days then moved it upstairs. Once the room was clear it was time to get the carpet up and out, then prime and paint (much easer to type it all out than to do it). Once the painting was complete we realized that the paint was not sticking to the walls along the very top where the wall meets the ceiling (a problem we have had before but thought we had beaten into submission), so with this problem came a decision, #1- sand the wall, clean it, prime it again and repaint and hope this corrects the problem or #2 put up crown molding and know for sure that it was taken care of. The only problem, Cameron had never done crown molding before, but always willing to try something new we decided on option #2, and it was well worth the extra effort. Once we were done with the paint it was time for flooring, we put down oak style laminate flooring (the same as in the kid’s rooms), in doing this we are now carpet free on the first floor of our house, what a joy to not have to worry about spills and stains. There are a few photos here on the blog but if you click on the link to the slideshow
you will see all of the photos that we took of the process.

Book Signing

Ok, so you remember my post about the book I recommended right? Well, today we went to have our book signed by the author of "The Shack". He was at the Greenville Barnes and Noble. Cameron just happened to be working in Greenville the other day and stopped by there to get a gift card for my uncle when he noticed a sign that said "William P.Young author of The Shack will be here on Aug 14" When he told me I couldn't even believe it! So, I grabbed my friend Amanda and we headed out. He was so real. He sat and spoke with the crowd for a good half hour and then he started signing books. We both got our picture with him, like little groupies! lol He calls himself an"accidental author" because the book was actually just meant to be a gift to his children. Well,3 million copies later, he stands so humble and gives God all of the glory. It was a good day. Above is a pic of me and Paul (he goes by his middle name)

Again, GET THE BOOK! It is wonderful and you will be so blessed.

Fireworks

On Saturday the Wilson Tobb's baseball team played thier final home game, and Cameron took the boys to see the fireworks (going to the game with Levi and making it to the fireworks would have been a little too much to hope for at this point). Cameron met up with some of his camera club friends at the Vinson-Bynum soccer field to watch and take pictures.

Here is the slide show

Here is one of the shots.


And here is one when the kids hid the tripod

Charlie earns his Brown Belt

Charlie takes Tae Kwon Do and last Friday he tested for and received his brown belt. He has attended Dong’s Martial Arts School in Wilson about a year and a half.