Summer Is Over :(

Summer was long and glorious, but sadly, has come to an end. We spent a sticky 10 days in Nicaragua doing all sorts of fun things: finding enormous bugs, digging tons of grass away from a baseball warning track, swimming in the warm, salty lago, getting worked by 9 year old soccer teams, playing balderdash with missionaries, creating the least creative balloon animals in the world (centiron, espalda, sombrero?), and more. Shiloh even gave a talk to all the little nicaraguenses who showed up for a youth group meeting.

Back in Davis, Shiloh bucked down (between BBQs, basketball games, golf...) and started looking for a job. He's now technically certified to mold and influence little brains in to history, math or spanish geniusi, but chose a different route. After only a month of searching, he landed a studly job as a Deputy District Attorney in Yuba County. What does that mean? He has entered the real world and summer vacations are over forever. Today he finishes week one of his daily treks to Marysville to solve crime. Don't you just feel safer?

Sam has been relishing her stress-free summer, though keeping busy with gardening, scrapbooking, laying by the pool, and other not-so-demanding tasks. Today marks the end of her first week back to work for Staff Orientation, and her last week of semi-freedom before the kiddos come pounding at the doors, dying to sit quietly in their seats and soak up as much math and physics as possible. (Yeah right.)
(fourth of July - oohs and ahhhs)

Summer Is Near

The school year was loonnnnng with ups and downs all over the place, but summer is almost here! Sam has only three days of school left (and they're minimum days!) while Shiloh has to trudge through another two weeks (poor Shiloh!). On the 16th of June we'll leave for Nicaragua with a team from mppc (check out http://www.mppcmission.org/trips/nicaragua/2006june/index.htm). Before we go, here is a recap from the last few months...
In January, Shiloh was invited to speak at Athletes in Action's weekly meeting. Our "old people" Bible study took a break to go support Shiloh in Young Hall 194. Since then, we've been to AIA many times because Adam, Jeremiah, and Justin were also asked to speak.






Shiloh also was an assistant coach for the Davis High Varsity Basketball program under Coach Gonzales. He and David Butterworth played a huge roll in taking the team to the playoffs for the first time in six years! Hustle, hustle, hustle.

Happy New Year!

Our first week and a half of winter break was excellent. We had two Christmases (one at the Nicholsons', one at the Sorbellos') and we made out like bandits - KitchenAid Mixer and a sweet HP printer, among other, smaller treasures.


The day after Christmas #2, Shiloh played in an Alumni vs. current DHS section-champs soccer team (on a field of mud soup instead of grass). Sam has been reading and scrapbooking to hear heart's content and received enough encouragement in Christmas presents to support the latter habbit for yet another year.


Last night, 2005 culminated with laughter-filed games and the clash of pots and pans echoing through the streets of Davis at midnight. Today, we're kicking off this year with the most rainfall that Yolo County has seen in seven years...it's ugly out there...a perfect day for more scrapbooking!

The Pleau and Sorbello "kids" on Christmas.

Only five grueling hours of fighting evil left us victorious - Gauntlet II was no match for our gaming prowess. :)

Chris and Kris Quam (cousins) brought their new baby, Kaylie, to an early Christmas on the 23rd. What a cutie!