The Great of 808

Dave, Bryan, Mark and JPat

These four guys are so blessed! They have been friends since college. It's so awesome how they ended up as roommates at A&M for the majority of their four years of college. Their apartment number was 808. So, they were known as "The Great of 808". They are all from Southeast Texas, although some of them didn't know each other until they got to college. Four strong Christians holding each other up throughout their college years. How awesome is that!

Mark Fittz got his degree in Architecture and later obtained his masters of Architecture. He and his wife Michelle have a four year old, Micah and Arianna who is 2. They gave up the "All American Dream" left a very good job and their life in Florida to become missionaries in Honduras. They now work with CAM. You can read more about their ministry here.

Bryan Holmes is an awesome Christian guy. He graduated from A&M with a bachelors degree in Construction Science. He has lived in several countries as a project manager with CBI. Finally, he decided to follow God's calling and became the Young Life Director in the Woodlands.

Jpat Ivey is an attorney in Katy, Texas. As many of you know, he married Hetal and have two beautiful daughters, Hannah and Sarah. He got a Political Science and a teaching degree from A&M. --I hear he was the best teacher ever!

Dave graduated with a degree in Biochemistry and then went to dental school in San Antonio. And that's how I met him (more about that later).

So once a year, all of them make an effort to get together as a group. On Sunday, we met in Beaumont at Bryan's parent's home. Bryan's mom, Ms. Peggy, smoked chickens. We always look forward to those smoked chickens - they are delicious!

It was nice to see everybody again. We had a great time!

Pawpaw Stovall is 90 Years Old

Pawpaw Stovall is Dave's grandfather. On Saturday afternoon, the whole family got together to celebrate his 90th birthday. It was good to visit with him and other relatives we don't get to see very often.

Happy 90th Birthday Pawpaw Stovall!

Staying Cool on a Hot Summer Day

Dave needed to go to a soccer coach meeting on Saturday from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., so I invited Elizabeth to go swimming with us at the Wellness Center. Little did I know that Dave was going to have enough with the meeting just a few hours after he showed up, so he met us at the pool at about 11:00 a.m.

Luke is our little fish! He is not afraid at all. He really thinks he can swim. According to Elizabeth, he almost drowned about 50 times in the 3 hours we were at the pool.

Carson also swam like a fish - non stop. He got some good exercise!

And Natalia, also swam, jumped in the pool, floated on her back, and played...

The kids were having so much fun, so we took advantage of that and didn't leave the Wellness Center until 1:00 p.m. Just enough time to eat lunch and get ready for PawPaw's 90th birthday party...

Dave turns 34!

The kids and I left San Antonio early Friday morning and made it to Beaumont just in time to help Dave celebrate his 34th birthday. - Happy Birthday Dave!

Luke & Carson giving Daddy his birthday gifts!

Natalia giving Daddy two shirts, which according to Natalia, "he desperatly needs!"

Dave & Carson have been talking about shooting the BB gun. So today was the day. As you can imagine, they had a blast!

David - showing off!

Luke's 1st time!

Carson's 1st time shooting a BB gun!

Look - he did it! All by himself!

Anyway, after all that fun, dinner was quickly approaching. Since it was Dave's birthday, it was up to him to choose where we were going for dinner. Well, we kept asking him where we were going and all he would said was, "I'm trying to figure that out." He put it off until it was too late. Being that it was Friday evening, there was a long wait everywhere he called. So, finally, he chose Hamburger Depot!

You see Luke's face? - This is how a few of us felt about Dave's choice!

Dave's favorite!

Happy Birthday Dave! We love you!

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Home Grown Tomato

Straight from the kids' garden!

Soccer Season is Almost Here!

Everybody is getting ready for soccer! Dave attended a meeting last week and will be attending a clinic this Saturday since he will be the coach for Carson's team. As you can imagine, Carson is thrilled about this. Natalia is fine with this arrangement only because she will be playing with the same girls from last year and will have the same coach, who she liked very much. So, thank God, everybody is happy. And that, makes me happy :0) .

We bought Natalia and Carson their cleats so that they can start playing soccer around the house. Well, Luke didn't like the idea that he didn't get any. He didn't understand the explanation I gave him about being too little and not being able to play soccer. He said: "Mama see, me can (as he ran down the hallway. Then he went to get his soccer ball and started kicking it.) See? Me can!" My mom could not bear the sight, so that night, we went to Academy to buy Luke his own cleats! Once again, can you say "spoiled"? The next day, Luke and Carson wore those cleats ALL day long! Natalia, well you know, "I'm tired! It's too hot! I need a break!"