Andrew is 10!

Hi everyone,

I am writing on the 29th, Andrew's 10th birthday and the 3rd anniversary of hurricane Katrina.

We are waiting to celebrate Andrew's birthday, as we have been on a large roof project in Marshfield and we are waiting for Peggy, Michael, Nathan and Amanda to make it home this weekend.


Brian, Nicholas, Joshua, Samuel, and Andrew have been working on the roof. This is the first roof project that Andrew has used a roof nailer.

Peggy and Michael have arrived in Minneapolis.

We have been busy with all of our normal activities. Charlotte is heading up cub scout recruiting. She is recruiting at our local public and Catholic schools.

Brian and Charlotte sang their first ever public duet this Sunday. You can hear it at northridgefamily.org Hit the link to the Colby/Abby church and hit This week's message.

Thank you to Mary for your visit!

Charlotte is very busy organizing a family reunion for next week. We are holding it at the Medford City Park and are planning to camp there for the weekend.

As the days pass, we are realizing how serious the hailstorm was here a few weeks ago. The damage in the city was serious. We have received a settlement offer on one of our duplexes. Brian is receiving numerous offers to repair damaged roofs and siding. We had golf ball size hail horizontally wind driven.

We are keeping the Gulf Coast in our prayers as Gustav threatens the coast.

Our Wisconsin time is half used up. In 4 months we plan to return to Mississippi.

Thank you all for reading our blog. Feel free to respond. It is easy.

In Christ,

The Haines family

Joshua is 15

Hi everyone,

Wow, it has been hard finding time to do the blog. It has been so busy. The summer is full of birthdays. 4 of 6 of our children have birthdays in July and August. Joshua turned 15 on the 14th. Andrew will be 10 on the 29th.

The big news around here is that Michael and Peggy, and Nathan and Amanda are moving to Minneapolis this week. Michael and Peggy are looking forward to a cleaner environment. Bakersfield, CA is one of America's most polluted cities. Nathan is going to school in MN to study marketing.

We have been busy with all of the regular activities. Church, scouts, neighbors, friends and more keep us busy full time. Brian will be the worship leader at church this week. Joshua and Samuel will play. Brian and Charlotte will do their first ever public duet. You are all invited.

Services are at Colby High at 9:00 a.m. Sunday.

We reconditioned the front of a small car dealership in Colby. We also just completed a full bathroom remodel. We are now doing a large flooring project.

We recently discovered our R.V was damaged in our hailstorm. It has hundreds of dents and a beat up air conditioner. We received a settlement for damage. The storm also damaged one of our buildings and caused damage all over Colby.

Thank you for checking up on our site.

In Christ

The Haines family

At Scout camp

Hi everyone,

We are all camping at our Boy Scout camp. We have been away from the internet all week, but we now have access. I will be loading pictures for you.

This past week, Nicholas, Joshua, and Samuel were at camp Tesomas, The boy scout camp. The rest of us were at the nearby family camp. Brian and Andrew are now at Akela's world, the cub scout camp.

Brian and Charlotte will switch, each will spend two nights at Andrew's camp.

We have had a blast. We have done rock climbing and have ridden a zip line. The zip line here is mounted to a 60 foot tower and descends down a 437 foot cable. Andrew and everyone older has done the zip line. Brian did the repel rope down the 60 feet.

It was a awesome time, we spent one and a half weeks. The weather was great. The camp programs and facilies are great as well. Activities included watersports, archery, educational, science, camping, hiking and so much more.

We used some spare time to dismantle and repaint Ethan's bike. We celebrated his birthday at camp. Nicholas has turned 17 and Ethan has turned 6. Joshua will turn 15 this week and Andrew will turn 10 in August.

Brian led worship for the whole Cub Scout camp chapel 3 nights.

We are back home and we will update you soon on all that is going on here.

In Christ

The Haines Family