Swimming pool

Hi everyone,

It has been a busy and productive week. We are all busy with the normal activities.

Andrew, Samuel and Ethan had summer school all week. They are now finished.

Last Sunday, we had a suprise 50th birthday for Kevin at Kevin and Sandy's house. It was a total suprise to him. It was a good time.

Charlotte put a lot of energy this week into attempting to get a women's fitness gym back in Colby. We lost our ColbyCurves recently due to a personal bankruptcy.
We have some ideas about restoring a gym, but need some help from others. We are not willing to take it on alone.

In faith, we set up our swimming pool in our yard. It is a 15 foot inflatable. It is only the second time we set up this pool. We did not use it last year as we arrived home from Mississippi on July 3. The weather is a bit cool, we will need warmer weather to use it.

We are starting to enjoy vegetables from our garden.

Joshua and Brian played in the worship band today. Nicholas did the sound. We filled the entire soundboard today. (and the stage too.) We had on vocals Ricardo, Junior, Sarah, Lori, Amanda A, David and Brian.
Duane played keys, Brian on guitar, David on guitar, Joshua on drums, and Ricardo on bass.

Pastor Will moved to Abby this Friday. It will be nice to have them here now.
Our hispanic pastor, pastor John preached in the main service.

Today we will be joining the church for a backyard BBQ at Ken and Dawn's.

Brian is nearing completion of a bathroom remodel here in Colby. It is a custom porcelain tile project. It will be beautiful.

Thank you for checking in, may God richly bless you according to His riches in glory!

In Christ
The Haines family

Summer school

Hi everyone,

It has been a busy week.

First, we had a family funeral for Charlotte's aunt Genny. It was Thursday at Believer's Church. It was there in recent years that she and her husband Kenny were discipled and served. Many attended and she will be missed by all that were close to her.

We all know she is in a better place. We are confident in her faith in Jesus.

The kids were all involved in the public school summer school program. Nicholas took the tractor safety course and after being certified, we let him run a riding mower for one of our lawns.

Samuel took archery, summer sports, karate, and archery.

Andrew is in soccer 1, Hola Mexico, and karate.

Ethan is in introduction to kindergarden.

Joshua was at Akela's world scout camp at Rhinelander for North Woods Challenge, which is a program desingned to teach scouts to be leaders. It is a challenging week, a very good program.

Charlotte and Rosa got to have quiet time together each morning. Wow a quiet house!!

Brian found himself with less help, but completed the Marshfield roof, and did a partial Colby roof.

We have lots of good work, for this we are very thankful. This week we will be doing a complete bathroom remodel in Colby featuring a custom tile shower and replacing a car wash door in Medford.

We had usual practices for the worship band on Tuesday and Thursday. The worship band was good this week. We will change it up next week. Ricardo will play bass instead of Samuel. Duane will play keyboard.

Our Colby children's pastor Aimee will be stepping down in July and returning to Marshfield to help her husband Preston with the children at the Marshfield church. When she was hired, the plan was to help at Colby until a pastor family was hired here. We will miss Aimee here, she has been a big blessing.

Jen will now head up the childrens church.

This week will still be summer school for Ethan, Andrew and Samuel.

On Saturday, two scouts from the troop, Colton and Corwin, were presented with the highest scout award, the eagle. The eagle award requires the earning of many merit badges, and community service. Only 2 percent of scouts earn this award. We are blessed that our kids have good friends surrounding them.

Thanks for checking in, have a great week.

In Christ,

The Haines family

The Amazing Family Race and Aunt Genny

Hi everyone,

We have had a busy, productive and fun week.

We also have had a sad week. Charlotte's aunt Genny has been in poor health for a long time.

She has been on dialasis for 4 years. She was also recently diagnosed with rapidly progressing lung cancer. The cancer would have caused her a painful and agonizing death in the next month or two so she and the family agreed that it would be best to stop the dialasis treatments. This option would cause her to fall asleep and pass. Her last treatment was on Wed. She passed this afternoon at her home. Charlotte is with her family as I (Brian) update this blog.

Brian and the boys spent the week on a roof project in Marshfield this week. It has gone very well except for some bad weather. We will finish about Tuesday.

Joshua will be at Camp Akela's World in Rhinelander, WI, this week for leadership training for the Boy Scouts. Nicholas will be at a Tractor driving class this week. The other boys will be at summer school at the Colby school learning many interesting skills.

Our church partnered with our parent church for an outreach called the Amazing Family Race. It was like the T.V. program. It was a very well planned and fun family outreach. Our family wound up winning the first place trophy on Friday night. We also won 4 passes to The Cedar Creek lodge waterpark!!

We placed 6th on Saturday. We would invite you all to join us next summer for the event. It was a lot of fun. Nice trophy...

We spent the afternoon at a Haines Family Reunion. It was a very nice time. We met at a hall in Granton.

"Bob" loves to entertain the children with his abilities of fun....

Family member "Bob" and his yo-yo tricks...

Brian's brother, on the left, Kenny and other family

Brian's Father on the right with family.

Brian and Samuel played in the worship band on Sunday. It went very well.

We will keep in touch. Thank you for looking at our blog. God bless you!!

In Christ

The Haines Family

Gym set

Hi everyone,

Wow where do we start? It has been really busy. There has been nothing much out of the ordinary, It has been good.

Last Saturday we attended Corwyn's wedding and Harmony's graduation in Wausau.
On Sunday morning, Brian,Joshua, and Samuel played in the worship band. You can listen in at northridgefamily.org We welcomed our new pastor, Will and Jen, and their children Emma, Isabelle, and Willy. They have purchased a home in Abbotsford and praise God their home in Augusta sold at a good price after being on the market only 2 weeks. We celebrated their arrival at our regular monthly back yard barbecue at Mike and Karens house.

Our beloved Nicki at the church has accepted a intern position at a Nebraska Christian camp.
It is amazing how God works as Pastor has been hired as she is heading out. Nicki has been the brains behind getting many things going. We celebrated her today after church at a whole church brunch. We have been having nearly 100 in attendance most Sundays.

We are having worship band practices on Tuesdays and Thursdays. We are now also having an extra practice and performance on Wednesdays for youth group. Ricardo is a highly skilled musician and very capable teacher. He is imparting a lot of skill into the entire team. It is a beautiful thing to see in motion.

Brian has been on some interior remodels the last 2 weeks and we have a large roof scheduled for this week. All of the guys will work hard all week.

We will have an outdoor movie night for youth group at the Gathering Place. They plan on showing Spiderman.

Thursday night was crazy. Andrew served at a Cub Scout brat fry at 5:00. Nicholas, Joshua and Samuel had their scout swimming test at 5:00. Joshua had a mandatory meeting at Wausau at 7:00. Brian, Joshua, and Samuel had band practice. This is what life is like for us here in the summer.

Joshua will be going to camp Tesomas for scout leadership training all next week.

Becky, Nathan and Amanda are out in California visiting Mike and Peggy.

We keep interested in fitness. We have had a commercial treadmill for years. Due to a bankruptcy, we lost our local Curves franchise which was Charlotte's help. Snapfit is here, but has not really been a workable option for us as the kids need adult supervision.

We just this past week discussed the goal of upgrading our basement into our own gym. We discussed that ideally it would be great to get one of those large total gym weight set. Obviously they are pricy. We would have had to save to get one. Yesterday Brian was driving past a local resale store and they had one outside for sale. We were able to buy it for a sweet price and we are all really excited. It is a very nice set. Our neighbor also gave us a very nice air hockey table which we also installed in the basement. With all of these teen boys, they now have a good place to hang out and get more fit.

We are going to be helping with the Marshfield North Ridge churches large event The Amazing Family Race next weekend.

Brian's parents are recovering well. They will obviously struggle with the normal aggravations of a car accident. Their vehicle sustained $8000.00 damage. The other victim sustained broken ribs and internal bleeding. She is hospitalized.

We trust you are all busy enjoying Wisconsin's summer.

We will write again.

In Christ

The Haines family