Tuesday night

Well last night was a good night, after we all got over Dan not being there. We played some hand ball to start the night, my team seemed to be dominating Bobs, the teams looked very fair but the game didn't play that way. At the end we played some soccor for Luke so he would be happy. Matt put an amazing header in the net that wowed everyone. The teams seemed very fair for that and at the end we firist pulled the goalies and called next goal wins. Nobody could still score, we were running out of time and then went to a shoot out, everybody got one shot on net, and nobody could score again, so it all ended in a tie. Luke then talked to us about how Jesus showed compasion and love for his friends and other, and how showing how you feel is OK to show.
If you are coming camping let me know, and start packing you stuff. Do not forget to bring food, I do not want you to have to depend on catching fish and rabbits to eat while you are out there, but if you want to that would be cool to see!

WINTER CAMPING

Well time to sleep in the snow is here again, Start getting ready for it. We are going February 7 and 8, we will leave Saturday morning at 9 and should be back on Sunday around 4, this is a change from last year to give us more time to build our shelters and ice fish. We want to go earlier in the year but it did not work out, hopefully there will not be water ontop of the ice this year. I will be adding to this more information and ideas as it gets closer so keep an eye on the blog. Any questions, leave them in the comments and I will answer them for you.

I HAVE CHANGED THE DATE THAT WE GO CAMPING!!!!! FEB7 AND 8, I FEEL THAT WE NEEDED TO MOVE IT UP A BIT TO AVOID TO MUCH WATER ON THE ICE. ANY PROBLEMS WITH THIS CHANGE LET ME KNOW AS SOON AS POSSIBLE!!!

Well this was the tallest tower last Tuesday. Pretty sure that the rules say you can't use a step ladder to construct you tower though, hang on I'll check that.... yep I was right no step ladders. So I guess they were disqualified. That would mean that Matt's team won. You can see the other towers and some of the construction HERE. Looks like we may have to switch up the building materials a bit for next year just to keep you guys guessing.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

Well unfortunately the blog hasn't been updated in far too long. Anyway I finally got the pictures from wrestling up. As usual follow click the Battalion Pics link and find the Wrestling 08 album.

Hopefully you guys are all having awesome holidays, I know I am.

I am not usually an New Year's Resolution type of a guy but I was thinking about how we have had a couple bible studies this fall about the Word of God and how important it is in our lives and how we need to have a good knowledge of it to be able to discern right from wrong sometimes. So this year I am hoping to read the entire Bible. I found a reading plan that involves reading passages from the Old Testament, New Testament, Psalms and Proverbs each day. It amounts to about 3 chapters a day but because of the way it is broken up I think it will be easy. It could even be read a little in the morning and a little at night. i haven't totally decided yet but it will force me to spend some time reading every day. I am hoping that some of you guys will join me in this. I think it would be awesome if we could get a bunch of us to keep us accountable to read every day and to encourage us that we can do it even when we don't feel like it or are busy. We could even read it together with our Dads or sons, or spouses.

I know I am a bit late getting it posted up here but if you read this in the next couple days you could even catch up to where you should be or just start with whatever is there for that day. I have the readings posted for the whole month January and I will do my best to get then next month posted well ahead of time so that you don't miss anything. A great way to do it would be to set the blog as your internet homepage and then each day you would be able to see the passage you need to read right away. If you guys are going to do this post up here so that we can see who all is in.

First Battalion is next week (January 6) see you all there. Bring your verses I hope you used at least some of your holidays to memorize.