Busy Week!

This week has been a busy one! RJ left for camp on Monday morning. I helped with transportation. We had 10 students going to Sr. High Camp in Columbus. We have been praying that they have a great time of fun and that God really touches them in amazing ways all week long. We picked RJ up at the church on Friday afternoon.

We ran some errands to kill time and then he had a play off game that night. Talk about tired! He was worn out from camp and then had to go play a baseball game! He played awesome though! (Do you think those energy drinks had something to do with it?!?)

Today we had a make-up game for R (most of the games this week got rained out) and then all-star games for the league the girls are in. I worked for 2 hours at the concession stand. Right when we were leaving a big storm rolled in. They delayed the one game but were able to finish playing it and the one following. Thank goodness it just rolled thru quickly.

It has just been a normal week here.

RJ Goes to Senior High Camp

RJ has spent this week at Sr. High Camp.




He had a lot of fun and we'll add some pictures once we get them back. He was WORN out when he got home. And from there he had to go play a baseball game. He contributes being awake for the game to the 2 Energy drinks he had on the way home & on the way to the game.

Our youth group is lacking in boys so he was the only guy that went to Sr. High camp out of a group of 10 from our church. Thankfully, he is friends with the girls too!

Parachute

Do You Need A Parachute?

Do you ever find yourself feeling like you are free falling out of a plane and your parachute is not on your back or you are desperately pulling the cord and it is not opening? Or do you feel like your life is swinging out of control like you are on a trapeze swing without a net below you?

This thing we call life is not always easy. It is not always smooth sailing. As we, as wives and mothers, try to balance all of our responsibilities we sometimes find ourselves grasping for something, anything, to steady us. The kids need us to help with a project, our husband needs us to run these errands, the house looks like a tornado went through it and we have no idea where to start. We want to crawl back into bed and wish it to all go away. But alas, we cannot do that. If we did, it would all just be waiting for us the next day.

Some things that may help you overcome feeling so out of control are:
Daily quiet time with God
Praising God for the things you have – even if they are out of control (a sink full of dirty dishes means you have eaten today!)
Finding a mentor or a group of mentors to help you (Titus 2)
Make sure your priorities are straight (God, husband, children and then everything else in the order you feel God would have you put them in).
Get some routines in place and stick with them

Psalms 29:11 says “God makes his people strong. God gives his people peace.” When we are in the middle of turmoil, when we feel like we are falling without a parachute, God is there to make us strong and to give us peace! God is our rock and our deliverer, we can call on His name and be saved!! (Psalms 18:2-3). We can lean on God and ask Him to give us direction, even in the middle of trying to balance all of our responsibilities. As we keep our priorities straight and depend on God to help us through them, He will be there to be our parachute or our safety net.

Some times God takes us through trials and situations to help us grow. He wants us to learn patience or some other virtue; or He wants to equip us to help someone else along the way. Sometimes we need to just hang on for the ride. But we can always know that, no matter what, God is always right there beside us.

Are you willing to let Him be your parachute?


© 2008

Games, Games and More Games!

This was a busy week for games. We had at least one game scheduled every day of the week except Wednesday. Monday we had THREE games! Talk about running in different directions! HA!
This morning we meet my sister in Cincy to pick up her girls. They are coming to spend a few weeks with us during their summer break. My nephew went along so he could see his parents then came back home with us to finish out his summer vacation up here.
Games have kept us busy this week so there hasn't been much else going on. Have a great week!

Happy Father's Day!!!!!

Just want to wish all the Father's out there a Happy Father's day!! We hope you enjoy your day and are shown how much your family loves and appreciates you!!!

Today Rod will be going golfing with his dad (and brother). RJ will be joining them this year!! Exciting!!!

Our week in Review (June 14)

Another busy week! Rain cancelled some of our games on Friday & Saturday but we still had 4 games during the rest of the week. Monday the girls had a birthday party to go too. They had tons of fun! RJ & M spent tons of time playing games on the nintendo and play station. Tuesday evening RJ's friend came over after the game and spent the night. Who knows how late the 3 boys stayed up! They were going to camp out but the weather was iffy so they just stayed inside.

Wednesday evening RJ & M did get to stay out in the tent. They had fun and want to do it again sometime, as soon as the weather cooperates.

We ended our week with a trip to CiCi's pizza in Brunswick to meet up with friends from Cleveland. As always the kids had fun. As soon as we were done there, we went down to Hinkley to hook up with some more friends! Social butterflies aren't we?! LOL We hung out at their house, kids played Twister, Wii and played on the trampoline. Of course, I took my camera but forgot to get it out at all.
Saturday we went to another friends house for dinner with 2 other couples (the moms all had a meeting/reunion to discuss but kids had fun and dad's watched the ball game)

Afterwards we went home and the kids decided to have a little golf practice............

Even the cats wanted in on the golfing action! HAHAHAHA!

They would not get out of the way, they would grab the ball, they would play with the 'green'. It was too funny!

We hope you all had a great week and we are looking forward to a fun week coming up!!

Another week for the Kurjian Family!

What a busy week! Ball games, ball games and MORE ball games! We ended up with 8 ball games this week! The crock pot is becoming a very much loved and well used appliance in our kitchen!

We ended the week with a fun trip to Swings & Things in N. Olmstead. We met up with some friends and just had an awesome day!! Here are some pictures of the fun day! The kids did go carts:

And they did bumper boats:

There was also putt-putt golf, batting cages, inside play area, laser tag and all kinds of other fun things to do. It was a VERY hot day so we had lots of water and the bumper boats were of course a favorite!

Today (Saturday) we all drove down to Cincy to pick up our nephew. He is here to spend the month of June with us. RJ is excited because he has someone to play games with!

That about wraps up our week!!

Busy Weekend!

What a busy weekend! Saturday we had a Confidence Class that we hosted at church. It had several parts: Home Alone (teaching children what to do when home alone), babysitting course (what to do when babysitting, how to prepare, what informatino you need to get from families, etc), and a CPR/Heimlich/AED certification course. All three of the kids took the Home Alone course, RJ/B took the babysitting course (both now have a babysitting course certificate) and RJ/B/I all took the CPR training so we have that certificate now as well. R sat in on all the courses but the adult CPR was a little difficult for her since she is so small/young.


Saturday we had 2 graduation parties as well so we ran to each of those. Hard to believe that these kids are graduating! Then R had a softball game at 8 that night under the 'big lights'. That is always a big exciting time for them!

Sunday we had church. We picked up our friends kids and they went with us. After we took them home our busy day started. We were able to sneak in an hour or so nap though which was very good! Our nephew graduated this year so we went to his graduation party. It started at 4:30 but they got out of graduation late so they didnt' get there until after 5 LOL. We had a good time and can't believe he has graduated!

We were suppose to go to our Homeschool Group's graduation but it started at 6 and since the family graduation party didn't get started until about 5:15 we decided it would be best to stay there instead of leaving at 5:30. Rod also had calling hours to go to but decided it would be best to stay with the family. We will be sending cards to our friends that lost their loved one.

Monday our week started with a busy day of normal stuff (kids, chores, fun in the sun), Rod had to work late and the day ended with 2 ball games (RJ & R). Both teams won so that was a great ending to the day!

Well I guess that is it for today!! We'll update again in a few days! Have a great week!!