Reunion plans

Hi everyone,

It has been a busy and productive week. We have finished the Marshfield roof project. It was a blessing. Our customer just located here from Shreveport, LA. They were pleased and are offering us another project.

We are working on the family reunion for Charlotte's family. It will be this weekend at Medford's Mill Pond park.

We will be putting a roof one of our own buildings next week. It is the one occupied by Charlotte's parents. The roof was tired when we bought the house in 2003. We do not think it can handle another hard winter.

Our church is gaining momentum every week. The worship band gets better every week. It is exciting to see each musician gaining skill. Samuel and Joshua are playing with increasing skill and confidence. Ricardo is doing so much to teach them.

Next week the Hispanic church will move to the High School on Sundays as they have already outgrown the Gathering Place. Praise God!!

Peggy and Michael, and Nathan and Amanda are moving into their apartment in Minneapolis.

We will keep you all posted. Thank you for checking our page.

In Christ

The Haines family

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

Colby Cheese Days

Hi everyone,

In addition to everything being super crazy like usual, we had a storm this past Thursday. We had a lightning strike in our neighborhood which took out our internet, our phone line, a T.V. , a radio, and some items from our neighbors. We also had 1.75 inch hail which was wind driven and damaged roofs, siding, and broke windows all over our city. We have also had much heavy rain.

Last weekend was Colby Cheese Days. We had a visit from Peggy and Michael. They were home from CA. We were involved in the regular fundraisers from our church and scouts.

We had a serious house fire in our neighborhood on Sat evening. The Hanson's home a block south of us was seriously gutted by fire. We housed three people Sat. evening as a result of the situation.

Brian led worship on Sunday morning. Joshua and Samuel played in the band as they have been most weeks recently.

Samuel and Joshua have traveled with Pastor Will and Ricardo to lead worship at a youth camp near Superior for the week.

Brian finished the bathroom in Unity. He is on some roof projects again this week.

Rosa and Ethan both had a bout of a fever. They both recovered well. It caused a couple of hard nights.

Next week we will all be going to the Boy scout camp. We will all camp. Those of us who are not scouts will use our R.V.

Sorry for being out of touch, we have not had internet access.

In Christ,

The Haines family

July 4th weekend

Hi everyone,

It is our favorite week of the year. It is the July 4th weekend and our 22nd anniversary.

We spent the first part of the week on the usual busy tasks. Brian finished Laura's bathroom.
He also installed a new commercial door at a Medford car wash. The pictures show the before and after pictured of both projects.
This week Brian will start another full bathroom remodel.

The boys have spent a lot of time with neighbor kids.

We decided to have a bit of fun with the 4th of July and our anniversary. On Friday, Brian came home early from work and we headed to Medford's Mill Pond park with our R. V. If you have never been there, you should check it out, it is a very nice park, and close to home. We rented a campsite and were joined by Charlotte's parents, Becky, and Nathan and Amanda. We enjoyed a nice meal together, fireworks and fellowship.

On Saturday, our family stayed at the camp. We enjoyed a 15 mile bike ride together. Nicholas and Joshua are earning a merit badge for Boy Scouts in bicycling. Even Ethan (age 5) enjoyed the 15 mile ride. It was a very good time. We relaxed and enjoyed the playground and had our meal in the camper.

Sunday morning was busy, Brian led worship, Joshua played drums and Samuel played bass. It was a blessing to lead the congregation in worship.

On Sunday afternoon, We headed to Eau Claire. This would be our first weekend away from the children without a babysitter in 16 years. The kids did great. We made numerous phone calls to them.

We spent a few hours at the Oakwood mall. It was a refreshing time of being alone together.

We packed for and considered camping in tents, but we decided on getting a room. We stayed in Eau Claire. On Monday, we headed to Menomonee planning on tubing the river, but the weather was not very promising.

Instead of going out on the river, we were able to enjoy downtown Menomonee, taking in some shopping, touring the Mabel Tainter theatre, driving a rustic road, touring a natural site called the Devil's Punchbowl and having a nice lunch at a local cafe.

If you have never visited the Mabel Tainter theatre, you should, it is an awesome historic site and the self guided tour cost a whopping 1$.

Thanks for vistiting our blog.

In Christ,

The Haines family