Jakes First Spring Soccer Game

A brief update on Jake's spring sports schedule.  Currently Jake is playing soccer at the Local YMCA here in Northeast Pensacola.  Jake enjoyed soccer so much this fall that he wanted to play this spring also.  Spring soccer at the YMCA is 8 players a side with real goalies for the first time.  Jake's first game was today, with the Cougars winning a lopsided battle 7-0.  Jake had 2 goals to start off the season.  Looks like he is picking up right where he left off from the fall season, a scoring machine.  

Jake is also playing baseball.  Right now he is just practicing with game to start in a bout two weeks.  Bailey will be playing soccer as well with his season starting in about 2 weeks.  He has his final golf tournament of the winter schedule this Saturday in Auburn, Al.  Next year we should have Owen in the mix of the sporting schedule.  The YMCA has a league for 3 and 4 year olds.  Owen is already practicing!

Home Schooling for Bailey & Jake

Next week will be the beginning of home schooling for Bailey and Jacob.  We have decided to withdraw the boys from Trinitas Christian due to the current economic situation (and our personal financial situation) in order to cut expenses.  While we are sad to be leaving the excellent academic curriculum that Trinitas provided, we are also excited to be able to take a more active role in our children's education.  This is a tremendous challenge for Cindy personally, since she will be responsible

 for the majority of their teaching.  She has been doing an awesome job with Jake for the past 3 months, assisting him in the transition to Trinitas, (where he was doing excellent.)  Cindy will be incorporating the same general curriculum that the boys were exposed to at Trinitas.  Math, science, bible, history, art, grammar, spelling and reading.  I will be helping with the math portion for Bailey and Jake as needed.  Please keep Cindy and the kids in your prayers as they tackle this huge ende

avor.  

Some of you are probably wondering, "Why not send the kids to public school?" We allowed Bailey to shadow our neighbor for one day at the local middle school.  We all were not very impressed with the entire ordeal.  You have probably noticed recently that the government is not that adept at running anything, i.e. Social Security, Welfare, VA, etc.  The top of that list is our failing public education system.  People keep wondering how to fix it.  There is no fixing it at this point.  The entire system has no foundation to fall back on and needs to be scrapped and start over.  No chance of that for the next 4 years.  So homeschooling it is.  the artwork I posted is from Bailey and Jake while they were at Trinitas.  Pretty impressive.  Enjoy.

Pinewood Derby Champion - Jake Pritchard!

The Boy Scouts of America Gulf Coast Council had their District Pinewood Derby competition today at the National Museum of Naval Aviation.  Jacob placed second in his division two weeks ago for his pack, earning him a spot in the district races.  For the past two weeks Jake and I have been making "modifications" to our car in an attempt to make it faster.  Believe it or not, there are all kinds of secrets, from polishing the wheels and axles, using graphite to lubricate the hubs to weight placement and wheel placement.  

The district races had over 70 cars registered in Jakes division.    Cars were raced 2 at a time in a double elimination format.  Well,  Jake's car won 8 races in a row and took home the first place trophy.  Awesome job Jake!   I believe Jake may continue on and be racing in Tallahassee in a few weeks.  We will keep you updated.