Life's Getting Busier

Life has quickly gone from average to hyper speed. Joi and I were lamenting last night how just two months ago, when our life-group ended for the summer, we were thinking...."What are we going to do with all this extra time?" And now, two months later, life-group is about to begin again and we realize...there really never was any extra time. In the past month, we've had the Hita's and the Broadwell's visit us from California. This Friday, the boys will start their home-school Friday school at H.O.P.E. We have a meeting tonight for soccer, which Gage and Gavin will be playing very soon (Garrison is holding out for basketball in the winter). Joi started watching Morgan (a 9 month old) on Monday's, Tuesday's, and Friday's from 7am - 4pm to earn some extra money. Morgan's a cutie and our boys love her. She is also starting to watch a 3 year old and a new born (due soon) on a few nights a week from 4:30pm - 7pm. We are going to Durango to visit my Dad for a few days coming up pretty soon. We are starting to step up and lead a multi-faceted ministry at church called the Connection Team (coffee/donuts, signs, greeting, hospitality, etc). We became covenant members of our church as they go from being a church plant to becoming a real church, which requires us to attend foundations classes several nights over a few month period. To top that off, we are heading into birthday country. Dylan, our nephew, is on the 14th of September. I'm on the 19th.  Gage is on the 24th. Gavin is in mid-October. Then we move into Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays. And then, somewhere is that time-span, Garrison will begin playing basketball. I'm sure I'm forgetting some things. Life is getting crazy. And as jumbled and all-over-the-place as this blog reads, that's how our life is right now.