Busy....

Our family time centers around church, work, family and sports w/ family members.  On the sport's side: Shawn did Cross Country and has never stopped practising for basketball- which official practise starts Nov 15th and first game is Dec 1st.  Dad is the assistant coach for high school this year... so they will both be gone for about 2 hours every afternoon... unless they are at a game.  I cannot complain about this... I am the one that signed Dad up as Middle School Coach a few years ago and highly encouraged this transition this year!  Just saying.  Mariah just finished up volleyball- not the best season of her life by a long shot...but, she stuck with it and learned a lot (a lot about things other than volleyball that is....).  Wow it was rough on her.  She is amazing! I think she is now going to pick up on her dance classes- yeah!!!! Joshua finished up football about 2 weeks ago- very successful season and played his first of 8 weeks of bball- IF league- and won!  The next 8 Saturday's are booked... and then some.  Caleb has spent his sports time with leaving at 4:30 am every Monday morning for almost a year now and usually a second practise during the week (except during BYU football season) playing on an Idaho Falls team.  His league play starts in a week- but, his games will be one day during the weekday.  Katie is not completely left out- she takes gymnastics each week... and has really improved this year.  Everyday she is on the trampoline practising.... infact, next summer we have to get a new trampoline...sigh.  I sit back and ponder at times if we are too busy.  But, so far... I think this is good.  They work hard- they are too busy to get into any trouble- and it is something that every member of our family- that doesn't already have plans...attends.  We all have activity/ coaching cards- so it costs nothing for any home game and very little for any away games.  Cheap, wholesome, family entertainment. Sometimes the schedule gets a little crazy- and we have to divide and conquer... but, for 5 children... it goes along pretty smoothly most of the time.  Shawn is also working on his Eagle project- just about done there, finishing up senior project (project, service, paper, presentation... yeah- it's a big deal), and starting the search for scholarships.  All the children have fantastic grades too!  It's a busy life...but, when I ponder.... it still seems to be on the right track.