Rodeo'in and Racing around

Wow, I never thought I woul be eager for my kids to get driver's licenses, especially at this age. After spending now 2 Tuesday's racing them around to all of their sporting events and clubs, I have to say I am counting down the days till they can do it themselves. Our weekly Tuesday routine goes something like this. Isaiah soccer 3:30-5:00, Girls Gymnastics 5:15, Elijah Football 5:30, Isaiah home for dinner and change into scout uniform 5:45, Pick up girls from Gymnastics 6:15, drop of Isaiah at scouts 6:30, Pick up Elijah from football 7:00, home for dinner, pick up Isaiah from scouts 8:00, fill up with gas now cause were on "E" and head home to calapse before putting kids to bed and cleaning up the mess we made as we trafficed in and out all day. What a crazy evening, but the reward comes after all the kids crash out early and I get to hang with my hubby.

Here are some pictures of the boys at their games on Saturday, they both won by a long shot, which really helped boost their egos for the rest of the season. Elijah is in his practice gear by the tree and his game gear on the field. You'll have to wait for the girls pictures, somehow with my tuesday night schedule I did not find time to take pictures of them.

Grandpa treated us to the legendary Ellensburg Rodeo. It was our very first one and we had so much fun. Tadd thinks he could be a good competitor in the "Wild cow milking" competition next year. Guess we will have to wait and see. We are enjoying the last of the summer nights. One of the kids favorite things to do is sit out on the porch and roast hot dogs for dinner, followed by a desert of smores. We love being able to hang out without getting rained out. The eastside of the mountains has treated us well.

We went to the Special Olympics Fundraiser here in town at the baseball fields, they had old cars, police and rescue support on hand with all of their bells and whistles that you could tour and take pictures with. The kids took pictures with the 0ld cars, police cars and motorcycles. As well as a photo shoot with the animal rescue stuffed animals. It was very hot, but so much fun. Here are some pics the kis so uniquely pose for.

Garage sales and Boy scouts

Isaiah went to boyscout camp this week and had lot of fun, when we were packing him up though Tadd gave him his pocket knife and gave him the knife safety lesson. As he was doing this all the other kids decided they needed a pocket knife too. The next morning Tadd took the kids garage saleing, looking for a table for the chruch. They went to an estate sale that had a whole bag of pocket knives. So now the kids are widdling to no end. Elijah also scored and bought himself some army guys. The kids have this huge desire to jobs to make money for next saturday's garage sales. Here is Annecy and Elijah with their garage sale loot.

Here is Isaiah the day he got back from camp, he is look'in pretty rough, but I guess that means he had fun. We sure did miss him!

Joplin Missions Trip

I don't know if anyone is reading this anymore since it has been so long since I posted, but it is my way of keeping a journal of our family so i will continue to try and be better about keeping it up. We have had a play, baseball, a church open house, and plenty more little notable activities since I last posted and I kept waiting to get all of the pictures of our phones to post them, but since we can't seem to remember our camera and we can't ever seem to be home at the same time to post pictures of our phones i am just going to post what I have and I can post some old photos later if we can ever get it together. Here goes,

We just got back from a week long missions tripto Joplin MO, where they had the Tornado on May 22nd. We were so blessed to be able to go with our whole family, as well as 17 other people from our church and a few other Calvary Chapel's in our area. The kids were such troopers. They were so excited all week to work in the distribution tent, helping people get things they needed and restocking the tables when they got low.

Below are some pictures of the tornado sticken areas and some pictures of our crew helping people clean up. Isaiah and Tadd got to go out an help Demo houses and pray with people who had lost everything. We all were blessed to get to know and serve with the other 3 groups from other churches and ministries that were staying at the Chruch we served at.

as you can see in the pictures below there was still lots of time for fun.

Below are some picture of the tent we ate in an the good grub we enjoyed from the "house of luke" guys. (house of luke is a group of men who have been into drugs and criminal activity, but now have decided to give their life to the lord) Tadd is praying with one of the guys from the House of Luke, whose wife and kids left him and since he has given his life to the Lord is trying to win them back.

(above)These are endearing pictures of our 18 passanger van that we spent 36 hours on for the way there and back. It got pretty sketchy there a couple of times since we were sleeping 18 people on a bus for almost 2 nights but we managed as you can see.

above is our team picture and our team cramming into a 15 passenger bus, since the extra car
had to head to ER for a heat exhausted kid.

It was a great trip and we were more blessed than the people we went there to serve. We are excited to plan another trip soon.

Lots going on!

We have had a very busy, but fun couple of weeks, Tadd and Charity got a chance to get away to one of our favorite places in Oregon for 3 days (kid free). You forget how much you need those trips, until you make one and realize how much you love being together with no interuptions. The problem with taking those trips is, you are so glad to get away without kids and then you spend half your time pointing out things the kids would enjoy, and complaining about how much you miss them. Therefore, we had to take another 3 day get away with the kids when we got back.

Mon, Tues, Wed are our getaway days since our weekends are so busy with church we try to really focus on family time the first part of the week. We bought into a timeshare early on in our marriage to gaurantee that no matter what finances were, we could always get away to our condo for little, to no cost. It has definantly paid off. We always have a place to stay at over 140 different condos in the United States and we don't have to eat out, as you can make your own food in house. So if we can splurge for the gas, we have insta vacation anytime. They all have pools and lots of movies and board games you can rent, so the fun neverends. Here are some shots of the pool time.

Elijah making sure Dad understand exactly what the schedule is for the day.

Somehow, we turned pool time into stunt time. Annecy and Kenya decided to try Dad out as a Jungle Gym. This was a feat for Kenya as she is afraid of heights and this stunt was very risky for her.

Not to be out done, Isaiah had to practice his back flip from the side, into the pool.

Amazingly we had no injuries, but they all slept very well that night.

Isaiah, Annecy and Kenya tried out for a play and landed some pretty cool parts. Isaiah gets to put his acrobatic talents to work as a member of a Gypsy family that travels from town to town doing tricks. He is mimming, juggling and walking on his hands. Annecy gets to play a daunting shadow that lays heavy cloths on a girls shoulder, as the girls gets insulted, symbolizing the weight that degrading comments can put on people. Kenya is using her amazing operetic singing voice to sing a duet with her on stage brother. They are all working so hard to memorize their parts and make it to 2 - 3 practices a week. The play is showing the next couple of weekends, so we'll try to get some good pictures for you. Here they are studying hard.

Isaiah just finished his very last basketball game, They swept the division and came out as the Grand Champions of their league! We are so proud of him, he practiced so hard and had to learn all of the rules besides. He worked very well with his team, even though he wanted to make all the baskets. Way to go buddy!

Please help us pray for the building we are still negotiating to get into, we know the Lord will provide what we need, but we met there for one sunday today and boy, did it make it more difficult to wait on the Lord. It is so perfect for our needs and we were so blessed with the room and provision that we had for all of the classrooms and meeting room. We did not have anyone crammed into a corner for a change. Please pray that God would provide the finances and the go ahead to make this happen if it is in His will. Thanks for your prayers and support.

Beautiful 10 year old

Annecy turned 10 a couple of weeks ago on Jan. 31st. It was her first real birthday party and she had so much fun. Mom took 13 hrs to put extentions in her hair a couple of days before and she flipped her hair atleast every 10 seconds for the first week she had them.

She had a butterfly themed party, complete with a pinata, that she has been asking for since she got home. I have never feared for my life more than when she started swinging and I had to be the one to steady the pinata. I did learn that if she ever gets violently angry, I am going to run and hide. They played some of her favorite games and she got to open her much anticipated gifts.

Church is going great! We are hoping within the next few weeks to be moving into out first real building! We are in the process of purchasing a building from another church that has moved. We are excited to see what God will do and so blessed to be in a position to be able to discontinue unpacking and loading it back up for each service.

It has been so nice to have Tadd at home a little more as he is making due with his "laundry room office" until we move into the church and he can have an office. He went to full time pastoring and is no longer trying to juggle a full time job and full time ministry. He is so blessed to have more time to dedicate to what he loves.

God is so faithful and we are so blessed to sit back an watch what he is doing. We are so blessed to be a part of it and can't wait to dive in deep. Have a so blessed week!

Happy New Year!

The older you get the faster the time goes! We can't beleive it is 2011 and Annecy and Isaiah have been home for almost a year! It has been a wonderful year of first and is finishing off with the best of the best. Christmas was such a blessing this year to have our whole family together and Grandpa Davis even got to come too. Kenya and Annecy were blessed with exactly what they wanted, we had a wonderful friend bless them both with the "American Girl" dolls they wanted and then went above and beyond, as she made them each a "girl and doll" matching night gown to go with it. They were in 7th heaven having tea in there pajamas on Christmas morning.

Isaiah and Elijah didn't do so bad either, they got a play station from a friend who wanted to hand it down to them and for three days straight after Christmas I don't think they gave their thumbs a break, we finally put some limits on their play time, so we could remember what their voices sounded like. Here is picture they were willing to pause the game for and I think they were surprised to find out they were not the only ones occupying the room.

The kids are taking a homeschool science class from a graduate student at the college, who is trying to get some teaching experience, she is a great teacher and the kids are loving the class. It is very hands on and this month they got to make volcanos out of paper mache and set them off with vinegar and baking soda. Here is a picture of Elijah's master peice erupting.

We had plenty of snow here in Ellensburg this year and all though the cold was hard to bear, the hours of sledding made it all worth it. Here is a video of us sledding with some friends and our cousin Mia, who got to come down for a week over Christmas break. You would never believe that Isaiah and Annecy had never been sledding before, they were pure naturals.

You would think after all of this it would be impossible to fit more fun into our holiday season, but this year we finally have 2 January birthday's we get to celebrate. Isaiah was on the 15th and a Annecy's will be coming on the 31st. Scheffer family tradition allows you to pick your menu on your birthday. So on Isaiah's birthday we had a Haitian schmorgusboard. He went with Bacon and Cheddar muffins for breakfast (not haitian, but very good) Then for lunch was "Haitian Spaghetti" (recipe: lots of oil, white noodles, ketchup, tomato paste and beef boullion, topped off with fried hot dog pieces.) Dinner was fried Chicken with Creole seasoning, Pikliz, (a spicy habanero pepper, vinegar and lime juice cole slaw) along with a Haitian staple of white rice with pureed beans on top for sauce. After our arteries started opening back up, we had cake and ice cream with some friends and opened presents.

We should get our cholestoral count lowered just in time to celebrate Annecy's birthday with fried "Patte" (a fried biscuit stuffed with onions & pork) and more fried hot dogs with ketchup and spaghetti. It's a good thing birthdays only come once a year.

Hope you had a blessed holiday season and wishing you a very blessed New year!