Tennis tourney

Just so you all know, as the Australian Open comes to a close, my dad and I will be entering our first tennis tourney. It is a 3.0 (very very low) rated men's doubles tourney being held in Elkhart. It will take place on the 4th and 5th of February.

We really have no idea what to expect, but are prepared for the possibility of a very quick loss. We are guaranteed two games, as there is a first round consolation bracket. Hopfully one of those two games we will be able to make competitive!

Either way, I am extremely excited about seeing how we fair against rated players!

I am a man. Hath not a man eyes? Hath not a man hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? Fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed, and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a woman is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die?

Wow...all in the same 24 hours!

Two good things all in 24 hours!

First of all, last night Delight Electric won our first game! Yes, that is right...we had scored more points then the other team by the end of the game. Everyone played an amazing game! Jeff had a goal, and Kyle almost scored two or three times and almost had a ton of assists! Everybody just played awesome, and even though the ref only called fouls on us and not on the other team, we still managed to hang on for the win! I am not quite sure how this happened, but it did!

Now...for other big news. The Rainbow 6 - Lockdown for the PC demo (much different from console version) was released 45 min ago and I now have it 87% downloaded. I have been looking forward to this for quite some time. Hopfully I can convince some of my friends to start playing with me again and we can do some laddering and maybe join a league or two!

Alright, I hope things are going as well in your neck of the woods as they are in mine!

Seth

Big muscles...

Yeah, that's right. I am going to be getting big muscles. Joel convinced a few of my friends and I to start working out. So, it is hard to believe, but Joel, Josh, Gnagey, and I are getting up to work out 5 days a week at 6:00. Um...yeah...that is a.m.

We will see how long it lasts. My primary motivation is currently getting in shape for our soccer league. I am also looking forward to looking like a stud and having my wife swoon every time I walk in the room.

Dad and I are also thinking of entering a 3.0 tennis tourney the first weekend in February, if I can get off of work! Hopfully he can stay healthy (not pull anything) and I can get in shape by that point.

Seth

What a Surprise!

I have the most wonderful husband in the world! Seth sent me two dozen sweetheart roses at work today! What a nice surprise and what a pick me up! They are beautiful. All the women in the office keep stopping in to admire them and tell me how lucky I am!

3 weeks gone already?!

It is hard to believe that my three weeks of vacation are done. Some of my friends wondered what in the world I was going to do with myself with three weeks off from work. Let me tell you, I did not struggle at all to find things to do! The time off was wonderful! I made a scrapebook for a woman I work with and started another for a friend of the family. I read two books, the newspaper cover to cover everyday, did daily SuDoKu puzzels, watched movies, stayed up late, slept in, took naps, did Christmas shopping, and spent lots of time with Seth, friends, and family.

Both Rebekah and Colin were home for Christmas and it was so great to have the whole family together. We had our usual sibling game of Scattergories, with an unusual outcome this year. Growing up Rebekah always won, I would come in a close second, and Colin was off somewhere in the distance. This year Colin put both Rebekah and me to shame, and not just once, but twice! So it wasn't a fluke! Our younger brother has intellectually surpassed us!

Seth and I made a trip to Pennsylvania soon after Christmas to celebrate with his Yoder family, not to be mistaken with my Yoder family. We drove to PA on the 27th, our 2 year anniversery, wow how time flies!, and spent a couple days in New Holland visiting with his aunts, uncles, grandma, and cousins. We then spent an evening with my family in Lemoyne on the way home. Aunt Marg was thrilled to have family come visit her for a change. This trip was wonderfully reminiscent of our freshman year spring break trip to PA, which was one highlight of college for us!

So now it is back to the real world. I am sure it will take me a little while to get back into my school routine again, but the fabulous memories from Christmas will carry me through. Happy January!
Sarah