Quick Update - What's Been Happening in the Mayfield House

The blog has been a little inactive since the first of the year - we need to do a better job taking pictures of the kids activities. Some quick updates:

-Carter is continuing to play hockey 2x/week. His team is doing great and they went undefeated in their "jubilee tournament" last weekend. His team won the last game 21-6....only in Mite hockey can you score 21 goals. The other team even had a goalie! Carter had six goals and was skating around "pumping" his fist. They played full-ice hockey for the first time and thought that was pretty cool.
-This Thursday Carter gets to skate with the Lakeville South Cougars. Each home game one team gets to "buddy up" with a player and skate out and get introduced with the team before the game.He is really excited.
-Logan is continuing to play basketball and improving. His team is fabulous and they have only lost (2) games all year. Logan needs to learn not to "foul" as he is overly aggressive at times. He had (2) 3-pointers last Saturday and was flying high. The last game is this Saturday and then he has a break till spring sports.
-The kids were driving us crazy about planning a winter vacation so we finally gave in. For some reason they REALLY wanted to go back to DisneyWorld so we will be heading there again in February for the 3rd year in a row. They don't know yet and I think we are going to keep it a secret and pick them up from school early and surprise them. Figure it is a place you only want to visit when your kids are young so we mine as well take advantage of this time in our lives.
-Both boys got their report cards and did ok....not sure we will be getting any Ivy League scholarships in this house! Carter is definitely an easier student than Logan was at his age and is doing great with his reading. He will start "journaling" soon.
-Logan continues to take guitar lessons at Hosanna! His new favorite thing is to search YouTube for guitar videos and learn from them.

Outside of that just staying busy with life. Lots of business travel for Shawn this month and running around for Sara. Hopefully spring will come early this year.

Hosanna RPM Sermon Series

Carter by this week's muscle car at church.

Sermon series: RPM (relationships, purpose and masculinity).

Video try #2. Vikings vs Packers

Cousin Christmas

12 Days of vacation

Time to go back to work tomorrow - or tonight for Shawn as he flies to AZ. Quick summary of our holiday memories:

-Logan's 9th birthday party at Brunswick Bowl
-One case of strep, one case of 24 hour flu and three head colds
-Volunteered at two Christmas Eve services minus Logan due to strep. Hosanna had over 21,000 people attend services. Amazing!
-Four hockey practices
-Trip to Duluth for the Mattson Christmas. Visits to the Train Depot and Aquarium. Day of skiing at Spirit Mountain. Started with Carter crying after the 1st run when he crashed on the bunny hill. He quickly got his ski legs back from last season and was screaming down the blue runs.
-Christmas with the Mayfields
-Visit from Santa. Logan got his in-ground basketball system and Carter was ecstatic to get his Mario 3DS
-Annual New Years Eve party at the Porter's. This was the 16th annual. How everyone has changed through the years. Logan and Sara stayed till 12:30am.
-Couple trips to the movie theater: Wreck it Ralph and Les Mis
-Carter and Daddy day at Chuck-e-Cheese
-Lots of trips to the health club to go swimming and rock climbing
-And the highlight, going to the Viking/Packer game and having our ears ring for 2 days.

Time flies when you are having fun!  Hope everyone had a safe and blessed holiday season.