Family Update

In an effort to keep our family updated with all of you, I thought I would try to manage my time more efficiently and force all of you to utilize the tools I KNOW you have and actually use the net to check in with us! Somehow I use my email to stay in contact with everyone around me except my family, so I am going to use the only thing I know will work as bait to make you log on and read this - photos of MVP. :) Hopefully you all will find this a useful and fun way to keep up with our family and let us know how you are as well! It would be great if each of you in turn created your own family blog and we could all keep up with each other even with our hectic schedules. (What a novel idea!)

Here are the most recent things going on in our lives:

• Matthew is 4 1/2 and in his last year of pre-school (he's loving it - today a policeman named "Officer Dan" came and gave him a badge - it was waaaaay cool)


• Matthew is continually entranced by airplanes and can tell from far away what type of engine it is - we travel past the airport twice a day - this is good news for him :)


• Andy is still managing the radio station at Samford and trying to teach good journalism, although a student recently reported that an alumni who died, who had been a prominent good-deeder, very active in social circles was a socialist (instead of a socialite) *sigh*


• Andy's Crohn's is well-managed and under control with the study drug, for which we are VERY grateful!! And word on the street is that the drug is very close to being available on the market, for which we are not quite so grateful, since that means that we will probably have a significant out of pocket expense, so any feet dragging pull at the FDA that you may have - go right ahead and pull!! :)


• Andy is announcing football and basketball games for Samford Athletics again this fall


• Cherith has taken a new job at Homewood Middle which is turning out to be great! It is less than a mile from Matthew's school and about 3 miles from Andy's school.


• Cherith is directing 2 shows this fall - To Kill A Mockingbird at HMS and The King and I at SCT. Both are casts of middle school kids. As usual, she can't get enough to do, and is taking 2 graduate classes as well - Choir and Statistics in Measurement and Evaluation.


• Cherith directs the Training Singers for the Birmingham Children's Choir on Tuesday nights. This is a group of 1st - 3rd graders. They are so cute! And little! :)


• In our spare time we (with the help of my GREAT sisters Jo and Esther and brother in law Bradley) are painting and doing other odd jobs around our house to get it ready to sell. We have enjoyed living here for 8 1/2 years, but it is time to leave! We have outgrown this place.

Well, I'm sure there is much more to tell, but that is pretty much the daily routine. We would love to hear from all of you. I hear there is a move to get everyone to Manchester for Thanksgiving. We will be there with homemade pumpkin pie! (More about that in our next post!!)

We love you all!

Cherith, Andy and Matthew