Crusaders 2019

We love our boys' homeschool soccer team- the Crusaders started 3 years ago and have grown lots in numbers, size, and skill. We've loved every year of playing and growing together! I may have written this before but another list of what we love about Crusaders is in order!

I love that
-our 3 boys can play together- along with 4 other pairs of brothers! It's a real band of brothers!

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-James can help with the team
-our youngest 3 can have fun with all the younger siblings on the sidelines
-great group of young men/ Moms/ families
-practice in the afternoons
-they're improving each year
-friendships are growing and growing
-carpools are terrific
-Coach Levi cares about the boys' character and development on and off the field
-we have our end of year celebration at the pavilion which is fun (soccer/ playground/ chatting), good (pizza and dessert), and easy
-we have a resident photographer and 2 doctors! (thankful we haven't needed the doctor opinion much but good as a backup!)

Crusaders 2017-
look how young they look and the coaches look tall! 

2018- silly boys

2018 tournament pic

Crusaders 2019

-instead of trophies/ certificates Coach speaks about each boy at the end of year celebration- some highlights from this year: T- mentally always in right spot.  C & K- fire and ice- can you guess which one which? one plays with fire and one an anchor
-the games are getting better and better- first year 0 wins. second year- boys won 1 game. This year we won 4 and tied 1.
-the tournament game was really well played. we lost 4-0 but it was so much closer than that.
-boys continue to play together in off-season during Eday and Wednesday afternoons.

Dream Run 2019

Tournament 2019
Loved this- presenting the boys varsity high school team and praying!

Sandy Cove 2019

We were blessed to be able to go to Sandy Cove in 2009 after James returned from Iraq through Operation Oasis. We really enjoyed our trip and felt led to give back to the scholarship fund. but we had not been back to Sandy Cove until last week. I'm so glad we went back. It was such a refreshing time. We really enjoyed the activities, the food, the time as a family, the time as a couple. Just a wonderful blend of time.
The days followed this basic pattern
-James and I read Bible by the beautiful river (thankful for sleeping teens who can stay in room with sleeping kids.)
-brown bag devotion as a family (thankful for Sandy Cove making it easy and fun to do devotions)
-breakfast (thankful for kitchen staff who made delicious food and cleaned up after us :)
-tennis/ mini-golf
-worship time together as family- fun song, worship song, movement song
-adult worship/ teaching time while kids went to Club Cove/ Cross walk where they learned about God and had lots of fun playing games, canoeing, swimming, kayaking, ...
-spaghetti time- where couples had an hour-ish together to talk about lesson, hang-out, rest
-lunch (ditto above thankful for kitchen staff)
-rest/ fun family time- (thankful for so many fun activities- the marina was a family favorite. also pedal cars, archery, the blob, the pool, ...
-dinner (yum!)
-Club Cove or family fun depending on what we felt like
-evening activity- ice cream sundaes, rocket launching and rootbeer floats, reptile show, s'mores and campfire songs)

we loved the speaker Todd Wilson- the Family Man, the beautiful views, worshipping together, having time as a couple, not having to cook or clean ;) , the family devotions, all the fun together!