Busy Week

It was quite the busy week! *PHEW* Last week was our "Vision Week" for our church. It was a week of fasting & prayer with numerous church meetings. We had an all night worship night on Wednesday followed by an all night prayer night on Friday. It was an amazing week. God is so faithful & brought so much breakthrough & revelation to our church. God delivered people from drug addictions, pornography, alcohol, family bondage, and many many many other things. It was amazing! Also, God is doing such amazing & divine things in our church. Personally God has brought such clarity to Sara & I on numerous things. We love our old church, but know we followed God's leading & feel we are exactly in the right place right now & in His will. He is opening doors in our life personally & it's exciting to see what 2008 will bring.

Consequently we were quite hungry after a week of fasting so a big group of us went out to the Macaroni Grill after church & it was quite delicious. After that we chilled with some good friends of ours, Josh & Jana, & watched some football. That night we had our celebration church banquet which we unveiled our new church website as well as plans to buy the church & new designs we're going to do to the building. It was an awesome banquet & it was so fun to be apart of. (Again it was AMAZING catered food).

Monday was nice having another day off & I always enjoy Sara being home! I had basketball practice for 2 hours & she had appointments, but we got to relax together all afternoon as I took the day off, which was so nice! Then we went out to the Olive Garden with friends for a youth staff meeting. Again AMAZING food.

After fasting, I've eaten such glorious food this weekend. It was awesome!!! Today was a little struggle going back to work, but after commuting to the office (walking down the hallway to my home office...lol) I snapped right back into the swing of things & had a very successful day.

On a sports front, I was a bit frustrated this weekend. To start out on Saturday, my JV team is by far one of the best JV teams at the 2A level in the state. However, we had lost by 15 to Blanchet at our home floor in December. Since then we have been game planning & gearing up for them. Consequently, we came in FOCUSED on Saturday in their gym. It was a very physical game with one of my players having a nasty bloody nose & one hurting their elbow very badly. We battled & battled & found ourself winning in the end by 6. It was an amazing game! I have never been more proud of my boys. We another big game tonight against Salem Academy.

As for the the Varsity team, we had a big game against Blanchet on Saturday & we came out flat. 3 of our 5 starters were in foul trouble the whole game & we could never get over the hump against this team. We ended up losing by 6 with our star player on the bench for most of the second half. It was very frustrating for us coaches & so we had a long "team meeting" on Monday. We're still in the hunt for the league title, but it is very difficult now. We have enormously big game against #1 Salem Academy tonight followed by #2 Kennedy on Friday. What a fun week of Basketball!!! I personally think we come out of this week 2-0, but we'll see. We can only coach & the players still have to play.

As for football, those DANG PATRIOTS!!!!!!!! Gosh, I hate them! I wanted them to lose so bad, but alas they won! Then, I was rooting for the good ol' boy Brett Favre & the Packers, but again they disappoint in overtime (what a stupid pass he through & don't even get me started on the play calling). So we are left with Tom "I'm a pretty boy" Brady vs. Eli "I only wish I was as good as my brother" Manning. More than likely the cheating Patriots will win the Super Bowl, but come Feb. 3rd trust me I will be rooting loudly for the Giants. Man I hate the Patriots....almost as much as I hate Regis, but not quite. =)

Lastly, the Blazers had an up & down week! They are on a 7 game road trip & are currenlty 3-3. They pulled out a huge win yesterday against the young Atlanta Hawks in overtime. Travis Outlaws shot at the buzzer was amazing. If you didn't get a chance to see it here you go: