Sport Tournament Fundraiser

We were sad to not be at Christ's Covenant Church tonight at the annual Art Gala. The Art Gala is so much fun- people make art to give and others buy the art- it's so neat to see the talent those in our church community have! The most exciting part is that the money goes toward missions. This year the money is going to two families who are preparing to head to Africa this year- we're so excited for the Hoods and the Cones and wish we could have been there tonight!

However, we did get to be a part of raising funds this weekends for Chris and Evie Jones, our dear friends who are preparing to move into a tribe soon. The senior class put together 3 different sport tournaments to raise money for Chris and Evie... ping pong, dodgeball, and hockey. Tonight was the hockey tournament, and both Ben and I played!

I played on the only girl team that there was... we had a lot of fun and played well! I haven't played since high school P.E. so I was a little nervous, but I didn't embarrass myself too much, so that was good!

Ben hasn't played much either, but he's had a little more practice than me. He mostly played the goalie position...

We girls lost our first game (against Ben's team!), then we won our second game (against boys who were 15-20 years younger than most of us, haha!), and then we lost the third game (by 1) which kicked us out of the loser's bracket. We had fun though!
Ben's team won their first game, won their second game, and won their third game... which meant they were the CHAMPIONS! It was fun that they won! One of the ladies made them reeses ice cream flurries as their reward! (in case you're wondering, Ben's team's name was Jason and the Xerxes, and my girl's team name was Girl Power)

We also did another fun thing this weekend to raise money for Chris and Evie... we used our artistic skills on the memorial wall! One of the girls in our class had this idea- it's a large white brick wall on the top floor of our gym- and we can buy a brick for $5 and paint it however we'd like. It's a fun way to "leave our mark" on the school, to be artistic, and to raise money for Chris and Evie!

Here is our family brick up close. And yes, that's really Sophie's foot print!