Welcome to The Parish Family Website: March 2010

Well, as I had posted earlier, Christian made the JV team at the High School! We are so proud of him; Go Wolverines!!! He has been having practice 5-6 days a week and has already had two scrimages against another local high school. He also had his first game this past Friday night, but lost after a good fight. He is really enjoying this new this new adventure and will have 2 games for most weeks. He has to wear a tie to school on game days - handsome boy!Ben and I are volunteering to work the concessions for a couple of the Varsity games. This should be fun and will help raise money for the soccer club at the school.

Brittney's team started practice last Wednesday. Ben is coaching and I am helping out when needed. She is playing on the classic team this year and had to try out for this. She is on a co-ed team but is the only girl. We will post pics too as we get them. She is very excited to get this season started, and so is dad!

This past week was a busy for us for even more reasons than just soccer practice. We hosted two boy soccer players from Argentina, Tote and Juan, both 14. This is the 7th year that our soccer association has invited them and they were able to see some of the sites in DC and played in a St. Patty's Day tournament. They stayed with us from this past Thursday night to this morning. Boy, was our grocery bill big this week with two extra growing boy's mouths to feed, but we really had a great time hosting them. They were great boys and very well behaved. They spoke pretty good English and our kiddos enjoyed having them hanging around as well. We were sad to see them go.

Will, Tote, Christy, Britt, Ben, and Juan

The boys celebrating because they won the tournament!

Tote, Juan, and Will after a game

Tote and Juan on Facebook!

Britt, Tote, Will, and Juan playing on the trampoline

We are also excited because we are doing some trading with some friends to get some of our sheet rock work done. They own a sheet rocking business and are going to help us out because Ben did some work on their lawn mower and got it running again. Ahh....this so great. Ben is going to help them so he can learn the right way to do sheet rock. We do have a lot that needs to be done, so we will have to tackle some of it ourselves.

We had a leak at the old sink that was down in the basement and there was nasty mold. Ben ripped out the sink, cabinets, and nasty drywall and put in this utility sink. Our friends will fix the sheet rock and we will slap on some paint and be good to go!