Bearcats Cake!

Menno brought his mommy and daddy over for supper the other night. He is getting so old and mature - we love being able to spend time with both him and his parents!

Alysse made us a little dessert to help celebrate Matt's win - how great is that?!

Girls Visit

Thursday afternoon I made the trip down to Bellingham to meet up with two very special girlfriends from my university days! We have been so blessed in the past year to live close enough to each other to make day trips to see each other and catch up on life! We all met up at Kris's cute house and then headed down to Fairhaven - a cute and old fashioned part of town. We walked, talked and ate - a great time!

I made Kris get in this picture - how can you not?!

The three of us:)

house pet

This is just a warning that this post may gross you out - it grosses me out! Tom, Dan's roommate, had a fish and it died, so to replace the fish he decided to get a mouse. I do not like mice, but I needed to see it. So yesterday afternoon I braved their bachelor pad and took my camera for everyone's viewing pleasure:)

this is the cage - very simple just a cake pan, plastic storage basket, a CD and athletic tape

and here he is...

he is kind of cute if you don't have to get to close to him

great day for a BBQ!

The weather this past week as been beautiful! Spring is trying really hard to arrive! On Wednesday we had BBQ at Rocky and Mel's house - one last party night with the volleyball team. I have never seen so many steaks on one BBQ and those boys finished them ALL off!

Boys enjoying the sun.

The volleyball team's gift to Easton - his shirt says "My daddy is a National Champion"

a little baseball in the backyard

look at those beautiful blue skies - soooo nice!!!

the guys watching some video highlights from their year

such a fun group of guys - they will be missed!

Love Picture!

Just over a week ago we received a note to pick up a package at the local post office and look what we got....

isn't it the most beautiful thing you have ever seen?! I'm not just saying that becuase I'm in the pic:) A note was sent along with the painting saying that this was Matt and me, with Meg on my back, walking up Suubi mountain together with Grace walking ahead of us - LOVE! Our good friend Beth - who has been and countinues to be such a blessing to our lives got her sister Leah to paint this BEAUTIFUL picture for us - THANK YOU LEAH!!! It's really amazing - we have never met Leah before and she painted us like she has known us for years!

Don't let my tired look in this picture side track you with my excitement! Bethy - you are the BEST!!!

Matt loving it!

Beth thank you for being you! You have such a beautiful heart that is always thinking of others. You truly are a blessing to both Matt and I - you love in ways that are so tanglible - always thinking of others before yourself - Jesus shines through you as you live! WE LOVE YOU!!!

Athletic Banquet

Friday night was CBC annual Athletic Banquet. Every year they take a night out of the year to honor athletes and their accomplishment both on and off the court through out the year. All of the team's were represented, but the Men's Volleyball team was given the most praise being that they are NATIONAL CHAMPIONS!!!

Matt received a fair number of awards - I could not be more proud of him. Matt received MVP again - three years playing at CBC and three MVP awards. Rocky talked about not only Matt's exceptional volleyball skills, but also his leadership to his team - there was more things saidbut you really had to be there - in a nutshell - my husband is AMAZING!

the CBC 2011 Men's Volleyball Team - they cleaned up quite nicely

Jason and Matt - co-captains

Assistant Coach Phil - Matt - Head Coach Rocky

Danny - sporting his newly aquired suit jacket :)

Cheryl and I - three years ago at Athletic Banquet we met...since then we have watched hours and hours of volleyball together! I am so thankful for another wife to share volleyball with!

Family

the banner - they worked hard for this - isn't it beautiful?!

Matt with some of his loot - Matt also received the President Award for his second year in a row. This award goes to the best athlete/leader/student - again with the overall AMAZINGNESS!!!

Matt finished his volleyball career leading his team to a National title! He lead well and put in countless hours practicing, working out, meeting with guys and still with all of that maintained a phenonimal GPA and is the BEST husband any girl could ask for! I am so thankful, blessed and PROUD to be married to this man!

National Champions!!!

On March 8-12 we, the CBC men's volleyball team, made our way to Sherbrooke, Quebec to compete in the 2011 CCAA National Championship. We came into the tournament as the #6 seed, but also as a team with a goal - to win a national championship. In the quarter-finals we faced the home team, the Sherbrooke Volontaires, the #3 seed, and beat them in 3 straight sets. Next up, in the semi-finals, was the Briercrest Clippers, the #2 seed and a team that we had wanted to play all year. While the game was a tight one, we came out victorious 3 sets to 2. And just like that, we found ourselves heading to the national championship final only to face the UBCO Heat, the #1 seed; a team whom we had yet to beat (0-3). It was a provincial final re-match. It was a great match, with big hits, big blocks, and high scores. And after a 3 game sweep we, Columbia Bible College, were national champions! What a great end to a great season. I am so proud of my team!

The boys clean up nice. All dressed up for the All-Canadian Banquet.

CCAA National Championship trophy:)

Number one!

Thanking Jesus

What a pleasure to win a national championship with Dan. How many brothers get to do that?

Phil and Rocky (coaches) with the our new banner. It looks very nice hanging up in our gym.

The Saskatchewan connection. Go Riders...I mean Bearcats.

Roomies

This one speaks for itself:)

Bringing home the trophy to a surprise party. What great supporters we have.

Easton knows. Number one!

The trophies. So proud of both!

Team Spirit ------------- Championship

Oregon

This past week I had 6 days off in a row as I was planning on heading to Montreal for Matt's Nationals. Due to expense of the plane ticket we decided it was wiser for me to stay on the west coast and head down to Oregon to see Rebecca. I ended up taking the train down south (very affordable) and spent six days relaxing/working on my last neonatal course. I got a lot of both things accomplished! I also had time for some nice walks - spring is trying to come to Oregon - the flowers are up!

Thankfully all of Matt's games were broadcast live on the internet. I spent many hours watching this screen and cheering loudly (I can't even imagine what Becca's neighbors were thinking of all the noise)!

And I'm sure more of you already know, but the CBC Bearcats WON GOLD - they are the best team College team in CANADA!!!!

Becca and I celebrated the win with a fondue party!

Thank you Becca for having me for the week it was fun to be able to invade your life and see what life is like for you on a daily basis. Love you!

Provincials!!!

Matt played in provincials this past weekend in Kelowna. We were blessed to have both sets of parents come out to K-town for the weekend to help me cheer on the boys! CBC played great, ending the weekend with silver medals! Their second place victory also gives them a pass into Nationals which are being held in Quebec mid March.

Here are some pics of the weekend...

This team should be VERY proud of themselves - second place in the province - can't wait for Nationals!