It was a bit choppy but taking the whole day off to spend with just Bob was so wonderful!
See you next summer PPI!
That’s right; Miss Mariada played her last soccer games and guess what! Her team was undefeated! The last four games where a few weekends ago all in Detroit and the girls played their hearts out, beating the last team 10-1, that after playing two games the day before and an earlier game that day, and traveling more than 400 miles! They really are a great team and Mariada is so happy to be able to play with them! She cried after that last game and is still riding her bike down to the high school after school to train. She starts swimming in a few weeks and she is really looking forward to that, to be honest so are we, it’s a school sport so the travel is a whole lot less and meets are after school, rather than whole weekends! I don’t think I could do the every weekend and the holidays! She is also doing amazingly with school, the tri is over in three weeks and it looks like we may have a report card filled with all A’s! She loves her school and we could not be happier with how well they have helped her with the transition.
Coach Wright (best coach ever!) Mariada already misses him.
Before each game they hug and yell heart, coach tells them to do everything with heart, he even gave them each a bracelet with a heart charm displaying their number.
Mariada, going for another goal.
What a team! They even made the front page of the paper!
I think I told you that Fredi and Prenda where in the states and we really wanted to see them, they were in Kentucky, but that was the weekend of the four soccer games, so we had to catch them the following weekend, which meant a trip to Atlanta. Farther, but we really wanted to see them and this also meant that we would be able to see Roger and Cherie, the American head of Hope for the World. What we didn’t know at the time was that this was also the time that Kristina would be visiting Fredi and Prenda. Kristina was Mariada’s roommate back in the orphanage she was adopted about a year before Mariada and Mariada had just found her on face book about two weeks earlier. Oh the tears! Mariada was jumping up and down when I told her that she would be seeing Kristina, Fredi, and Prenda, their kids and Roger and Cherie! We went down from Wed. – Sun. and had a blast, it was wonderful to see everyone and meet Kristina and her parents. We went to the zoo and the aquarium, where I heard “MOM LOOK!!!” about a million times cute. Roger and Cherie even had the girls spent the night at their house two of the nights so they could just hang out together.
Kristina and Mariada they had so much fun...
All the kids had so much fun..
Bob showing off his Snow White capabilities!
Other updates, Ben was home for a long weekend a few weeks ago and he is doing great, although he is having to study for the first time in his life, he is enjoying U of M and is excelling in the ROTC program. We even had a chance to take him out to dinner in Ann Arbor; Mariada’s last game was right down the road from his apartment. We are looking forward to him being home for Thanksgiving.
Sara, is staying in Michigan this year and training with Cary Adgate, former Olympic downhill racer, she is taking high school classes at a local collage and training during the day. She leaves for a race clinic out in Big Sky in just a few short weeks, and by the time she returns we will be in full race season. She hopes this will be her year! We continue to pray that she stays safe ;)
Lewis, he’s adorable and I can’t wait until he’s about three!
He still thinks he has the right to nap wherever he likes! Oh puppies!
Hope this update finds you all well and feeling every bit as blessed as we do. God is so good.
