I just wanted to let everyone know that Anna's baptism is on Sunday, March 2 at our church, Fairhaven Ministries in Hudsonville, MI. Unfortunetely we don't have much room to accomodate families to sleep, but there is a hotel about 3 minutes down the road from us or I might be able to wrangle up some room at my lovely brother or Nicole's room at Calvin (I have to ask for though) for those cousins who may want to come.
It'll be at the 10:45am service (9:45am for those of you in IL) and we'll follow it up with a lunch/cake and coffee gathering at our house. Details on that have to be figured out yet. Let me know if your interested in coming, we'd love to have you out for the day or the weekend!
Love,
Christie
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Home from the other side of the world!
Just wanted to let everyone know I am home safe from Africa...a little sunburnt (jealous?), exhausted, and fulfilled.
See my other blog (http://jetset-gypsy.blogspot.com/) for trip details. I will be updating it from home with pictures and a more detaled description of the trip.
Notice the time now? I went to bed about 3 hours ago....but it's 9am on my old time zone, and I'm WIDE awake.
UGH...
Saturday, January 19, 2008
Girls Basketball Game
Hello Everyone!
Hope everyone is doing good! Things are good over here. We just had Mickey's birthday sleepover party with 3 over her good friends. They were all up until midnight, which made for some tired kids on Saturday afternoon. They had fun though.
Liz & Brittany had their first basketball game last week. They won 20-6 against Calvin. They have an away game against Southwest Tinley on Tuesday, a home game on Thursday against Highland, and their Tournament on Saturday. They are VERY excited.
Kylie says hello to everyone as she is sitting here next to me and watching me type this. "WHAT UP?"
Well nothing exciting has happened in the past few weeks except the stomach flu hit me last Sunday/Monday and nobody else (THANK GOODNESS!!!)
Wayne is still in a holding pattern on working on the girls bedroom downstairs. He needs to finish the electric and put in the new window in the room before we can start insulating and drywalling. The girls are being VERY patient.
Just thought I'd give an update on the Boss Family in Lansing.
See you on Feb. 2!
Hope everyone is doing good! Things are good over here. We just had Mickey's birthday sleepover party with 3 over her good friends. They were all up until midnight, which made for some tired kids on Saturday afternoon. They had fun though.
Liz & Brittany had their first basketball game last week. They won 20-6 against Calvin. They have an away game against Southwest Tinley on Tuesday, a home game on Thursday against Highland, and their Tournament on Saturday. They are VERY excited.
Kylie says hello to everyone as she is sitting here next to me and watching me type this. "WHAT UP?"
Well nothing exciting has happened in the past few weeks except the stomach flu hit me last Sunday/Monday and nobody else (THANK GOODNESS!!!)
Wayne is still in a holding pattern on working on the girls bedroom downstairs. He needs to finish the electric and put in the new window in the room before we can start insulating and drywalling. The girls are being VERY patient.
Just thought I'd give an update on the Boss Family in Lansing.
See you on Feb. 2!
Thursday, January 17, 2008
The Cottage Book
I just wanted to let everyone know that I'm almost finished with The Cottage book that I set up in Blurb (a digital photo album site) and you'll be able to purchase one if you're interested. It has all the pictures I took since we got the digital camera in 2004 and a lot of the pictures that some others took during the last weekend at the cottage. It'll be about 140-160 pages and you'll be able to purchase it for $34 in softcover or $40 in hardcover (plus S&H). I'll post a link to it when it's ready to be purchased.
Should be cool. :)
-Christie
Should be cool. :)
-Christie
The Poll
I just realized that there was a poll at the bottom of the blog about when we're going to have our next baby. I thought that was great! I guess you'll have to wait and see. :)
I have a bet going with dad right now about who can get under a certain weight first (guys usually have an advantage to that, but we shall see). Whoever reaches their goal first, takes the other out for dinner. Would anyone else like to partake and make this a friendly family competition? Let me know and I'll get it set up to keep track of the stats!
I have also made it my goal this year to try 10 new foods. So far, I've fallen in love with clementine oranges. I've never eaten an orange before, not sure why b/c I love orange flavored things, but they are #1 for this year. At the end of last year, I tried calamari and actually liked it. And it didn't have peanut butter or ketchup on it! I know, shocking!
I have a whole list of goals for my personal life, for my health, for my spiritual life and for my family. I won't share all of them, but I'm at least going to attempt to change my focus on different things. So we'll see.
With that, here's a picture of the Banana.
Love to you all (and post people, it's fun! - we gotta get G&G to sign up so they can use the blog for their trips to the daycare for seniors and their Mexican Dental adventures!)
Christie
I have a bet going with dad right now about who can get under a certain weight first (guys usually have an advantage to that, but we shall see). Whoever reaches their goal first, takes the other out for dinner. Would anyone else like to partake and make this a friendly family competition? Let me know and I'll get it set up to keep track of the stats!
I have also made it my goal this year to try 10 new foods. So far, I've fallen in love with clementine oranges. I've never eaten an orange before, not sure why b/c I love orange flavored things, but they are #1 for this year. At the end of last year, I tried calamari and actually liked it. And it didn't have peanut butter or ketchup on it! I know, shocking!
I have a whole list of goals for my personal life, for my health, for my spiritual life and for my family. I won't share all of them, but I'm at least going to attempt to change my focus on different things. So we'll see.
With that, here's a picture of the Banana.
Love to you all (and post people, it's fun! - we gotta get G&G to sign up so they can use the blog for their trips to the daycare for seniors and their Mexican Dental adventures!)
Christie
Saturday, January 5, 2008
Start the year with vitamin C
Everyone is sick. Well, almost all of us. Some kind of sinus, headache-y, wintery sickness. YuCK.
We are going through a lot of kleenex, soup, cough drops, and vitamin C.
Thursday, January 3, 2008
Feeling great in 08!
I have a New Year's Resolution or 2 myself. Katie had a great idea (or stole one anyway) that coincides with my resolution. I want our family to strive for healthier year, in terms of exercise, eating better, maybe it's emotional or spiritual health, doing little things that make life simplier or happier. I'll write more about my specific goals later as I'm at work right now, but lets use this blog as one outlet to encourge eachother, to find workout buddies, people to hold us accountable for our goals. Yes, we are getting bigger and a lot busier, but we will always be family so lets hold on to that and find ways to keep in touch and close.
Great idea Katie and I hope others get involved in this too!
Love from the west side of the mitten :)
Christie
Kara basketball games this week
I am just checking things out here as I have never blogged before.
Kara has a basketball game at Elim on Thursday, Jan 3 at 3pm and on Friday, Jan 4 at 4 pm.
Kara has a basketball game at Elim on Thursday, Jan 3 at 3pm and on Friday, Jan 4 at 4 pm.
Here we go!
Welcome to The Boss BUnch Blog!
As is evident after holiday family gatherings this year, it gets more and more difficult for all 28 of us get together and keep up with eachother.
Before you overwhelm me with accolades on this brilliant idea, I'll admit--the idea was not my own. I stumbled across my good friend Alex Gesch's family blog a few weeks ago and thought it was a great idea for an expanding (both in size and location) family that can't get together as much as it used to, or would like to.
Whenever you are ready, go ahead and post! (the link is in the upper right hand corner of the screen if you are logged in) Add pictures using the small picture symbol on the tool bar. YOu can also add video, if you feel up for it.
Make sure you are logged in when you leave comments on other posts.
If there is an email address/family member I have forgotten that would like to be added to the author list, let me know.
Have fun!
As is evident after holiday family gatherings this year, it gets more and more difficult for all 28 of us get together and keep up with eachother.
Before you overwhelm me with accolades on this brilliant idea, I'll admit--the idea was not my own. I stumbled across my good friend Alex Gesch's family blog a few weeks ago and thought it was a great idea for an expanding (both in size and location) family that can't get together as much as it used to, or would like to.
Whenever you are ready, go ahead and post! (the link is in the upper right hand corner of the screen if you are logged in) Add pictures using the small picture symbol on the tool bar. YOu can also add video, if you feel up for it.
Make sure you are logged in when you leave comments on other posts.
If there is an email address/family member I have forgotten that would like to be added to the author list, let me know.
Have fun!
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