rise and sing

so Steve Fee was one of the first worship leaders we saw at North Point church about a year and a half ago. He has a strong Christian rock sound and if you ever get to attend one of his shows, you will find it amazing for sure. Here is a video someone took at his Hope Rising CD release concert last Sunday at North Point. Fortunately we were seated on the side seats so didn't get in the middle of a ton of screaming teenagers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beZI4DeE4D0

and Jack bike riding

funny how the timing can be so different between 2 kids in doing something like learning how to ride a bike. Jack just seems to have good pickup of the balance concept...but does that mean we all need to be looking out even more now for him...

Chattanooga lake jumping

Here is Sara jumping off a huge cliff yesterday. She went first. I did jump but the video didn't save. There is facebook video of me on the big rope swing for those of you on facebook...

"oh yeah, I had that problem too..."

I overheard the boys early Saturday morning (when I was trying to sleep in). Jack was trying to turn off the alarm, and big brother stepped in to help.

Jack: Well, I pushed the buttons but it didn't work...Is that a 6?
Chance: No, that's a 9
Jack: but, it looks like a 6
Chance: Oh, yeah, I had that problem too. See, look, that's a 6.
Jack: well...
Chance: See look, that's a 5...and you know what comes after 5 right? What comes after 5?
Jack: 6!!

...and then they were off downstairs.

- Sara

yesterday's tubing and Sara's teeth

Here are a few pictures and video from the annual tubing adventure to Helen, GA. Also, check out Sara's new teeth without braces! They look great!

Jack "working out" at the Touch Air gym

Picture of Jack from field trip on Friday - he told me how he was working out like dad does

Chance comes off the plane video

Disadvantages of using the carry on suitcase as a child transport method through the airport

Jack had about enough of walking through the airport to pick up Chance today, so an attempted compromise was to let him "ride" on the carry on suitcase while rolled back through the terminal. Doesn't always work so well...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrGQ6_NwJo8

other things not to let your kid do - running down the moving sidewalk...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqLhf2Qv1T8

the kid just went nuts there with all the open space. Just to note, we have adjusted Jack's understanding of what is acceptable at the airport.

Chance postcard from DC trip

the picture...

courtesy of Uncle Marc

and the video...

Chance takes off for DC

a week with Aunt Sara and her family for Chance's world tour...

Chance plays QuickStart on clay

Chance got to try playing on clay last week in another Quickstart tournament. Here is one of the best points from it.

Big Canoe Concert last night with Sara's family

Nice concert event at Big Canoe

A few catch up videos / pictures

Summer is here and sailing is great

Chance's posted scores from Monday's tournament

I knew he was in the hunt for each of the matches, but since I court monitored other kids matches did not realize just how close. The first match score actually was 6-6 in the 3rd. Congratulations to Chance even though the final points didn't fall for him this time:

Co-ed 8 Singles
RR daniel thorne d. Kyle Phillips 7-1; 5-7; 7-5
RR Robert Bauer d. Kyle Phillips 7-6; 5-7; 7-6
RR Rachel Korn d. Kyle Phillips 6-7; 7-5; 7-6

Saturday sailing - 1st sail of 2009

Saturday marked the first time we sailed with Jack and Chance now 4 & 6 yrs old respectively. This was by far the easiest, most relaxing sail that we've had with the boys as they now are able to do a lot of their own things and also even help with some of the work that needs to be done. See Facebook for some still photos.

Chance tennis tournament at RCOS

Another QuickStart tournament for Chance today and this was a very well run event. They actually have dedicated 36' courts just for the 8 & under group. Here is one of just a couple clips that I took today. Chance took a game in each of his 3 matches (they play best 2 out of 3 7-point games) It was a round robin format which was a good thing and I agreed to be a parent monitor of other kids matches during the event so missed a good bit of Chances. I'll let you see if you can figure out from the video what the issue here is. (I let it go.)

Last day of school water ambush

Here are a few pictures. For the 2 minute video, you will need to go to the Park Brooke group on Facebook or go to my profile on Facebook.

Tennis rally

Just stumbled across this but worth watching a great tennis rally...

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8396692247382607460&hl=en


and while I'm at it, for some humor here is the classic Allen Iverson press conference talking about practice...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUYjD7A75HQ

End of Windward's Pre-Academy tennis spring season

Here is a brief clip from the last session.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpWjUNqDi_4

Also, since we got rained out most of the weekend, here is a clip from the indoor court...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emCWaYU8Zx4

Another jam packed Saturday

Craziness today - packed stuff for garage sale at our friends house in Windward. Sara made some good money but a lot didn't sell that we had hoped to get rid of - she nixed my suggestion to donate; oh well, we'll do something with it. Chance had his last soccer game of the season and here are some pics /videos, including the team party. Then on to his friend Britton's Star Wars party at his house. The surprise for me was that I could drop him off and come back and pick him up. That's a great thing now to have 2 unplanned hours open up with no kid responsibilities. So called Aunt Helen to catch up and went to Publix. Then a 20 minute power rest and it was time to pick him up. He had a blast at the party and we talked about how short sighted he had been with his comments going over there. Next we had Jackson and Brooke's party which was at a jumping place, so he got to get worn out there. Anyway, congratulations to Coach Craig who did a great job with the team this season and also Chance who made great improvements after staying out of soccer for a couple years.






Hayden's goal:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPcLxv96tug

Chance's soccer playing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vstNU-Kn_FY

Coach Craig interview:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vstNU-Kn_FY

Interview of Thomas and Chance:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXs6WQBy0pU