Tube Wars

The game that we call Tube Wars. We hook up two tubes behind our boat and a person gets on each tube. Then, the war begins! Goal: To throw the competitor off their tube. Rules: 1. No hitting, biting, scratching, pulling hair or hitting below the belt.  Everything else is on the table. 2. Best score after three runs win and the winner must face the next competitor. Scoring: 1 point - You remain on your tube and throw the competitor off their tube. 2 points - You jump to your competitor’s tube, engage your competitor, and pull them off while also falling off. 3 points - You jump to your competitor’s tube, engage your competitor, and throw them off while remaining on the tube.

Crab Huntin

One weekend, I took to my two youngest siblings, Elaina and Nathaniel, to the beach.  The sun was setting and it was getting dark.  Nathaniel told us it was time to go "crab hunting."  I decided to go along even though I wasn't sure what he was talking about.  And there we were on the beach with my phone, a flashlight, and a gig spear thing. To crab hunt, you shine your flashlight on the shoreline and when you see a crab you run after it like a crazy and spear it!  We were hunting for ghost crabs.  Once speared, Nathaniel likes to take the crab's biggest claw off and keep it. We all got a turn to try to spear some crabs and succeeded.  When we decided to call it quits, we probably had speared about 30 crabs. It was quite the adventure.

Baptisms

Recently, my two youngest siblings were baptized!  A very cool thing to be a part of!  NT decided he was going to be baptized on Easter Sunday, April 24, 2011.  Elaina decided quite some time ago, that she wanted to be baptized on her birthday when it fell on Mother's day, which happened this year on her 14th birthday, May 8, 2011. As a Christian, we get baptized to publicly confess that we have accepted Jesus Christ as our Savior.  He set the example and He commands it.  It symbolizes the washing away of our old, sinful self and rising again to life, putting on our new self.  It is an outward expression of an inward decision. "We were therefore buried with Him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life." - Romans 6:4 "At that time Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan." - Mark 1:9 "Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age." - Matthew 28:19-20 NT's Baptism Elaina's Baptism