Team Morris

Team Morris is something that I need on a t-shirt. I love basketball. I may live in Texas, but I am a die hard Kentucky Basketball Fan. Go Big Blue. Kentucky as well as most other teams do their very best when they play as a team. My family is no different. What makes our family special is that we are at our best when we are doing life together. It helps that we love each other and enjoy being around each other, but it has become so much more than that. We have grown so close together that we often are thinking and saying things at the same time. It has gotten so often that every time this happens we have to fist bump. None of us are perfect. All 5 of us have our flaws, but we love each other, we lift each other up, and we do life together. We are Team Morris. Does anyone even look at Blogger anymore? I just ran across this today and hadn't thought of this in years...(almost 6 years to be exact) I thought I'd post and see if it pops in any old friends feeds for some reason. I'm grateful for all of you that have had an influence on our family and helped to make us Team Morris.

Getting ready to make an offer on a house

This has been a hard decision to make an offer on a home when it took us almost 2 years to sell the one in Dallas. However this is a great market to buy a house and we may get this house for an extremely good deal. It is in the Dalraida school district which we currently reside in a rental home and the schools are excellent. Well, elementary anyways. It is also within a mile or two of where Summer works and 3 miles from the church. It has all the things we are looking for in a house. 4 bedrooms, a bonus room, a garage, and a large enough living room for our leather sectional and chairs. It took a lot of looking, but I think this is the one. We may offer tonight.

Update on the Family

Things are going well with the family. I just turned 35 in January. Rebeckah just turned 5 and Anna just turned 7. Micah will be 9 in July. Summer turns 32 in June. Things at church are busy. I run an Upward basketball program at church. There are 334 kids in the program this year. I basically spend my Saturdays at church from 6:30am to 8pm. This Saturday is our last game of the season. Yipee. It has been a good season though.

Summer is in the middle of finishing up here Bible degree. She has one more semester after this one and she will be finished. She should graduate in August.

Micah and Anna are excelling in school. Micah tested out at 141 IQ. (definitely takes after his dad.) :) Anna is Miss Social Butterfly. Rebekah is in the preK at Alabama Christian Academy where Summer is working.

Our house in Texas finally sold in January, so we are now looking at our housing options. Our rental contract is up at the end of May so we need to be figuring out what we are going to be doing in that department.

I guess that is the nutshell on what is going on.

Have a great day!

First Post in what seems like foever

I would be totally surprised if anyone I know actually looks at this anymore. Just for fun, if you know me and are reading this, post a comment. I hope I remember to come back and look at this and see if someone comments. :)

Blessings,

Bret

Fun with Fae

This past weekend, my family traveled to Panama City Beach for our church's family beach retreat. We fully expected to be hit by Fae according to the weather reports. We were there from Thursday until Sunday and all we got was a little drizzle. It was windy at times, but no big rains.

On Sunday morning it was sunny and we were able to have church out on the beach.

The ironic thing was is that Fae hit Montgomery. We had branches down all over the place when we got home and Monday there were tornado warnings all morning. It is funny how a storm is forecasted to hit a certain place and then it totally misses. I guess I should learn to expect that out of weather forecasts.

School has started

My daughter Anna is in school now and she is doing great. She stayed on green her first day which means she didn't get in trouble. I'm thankful for that. The traffic situation at her school is terrifying. They are building a new school in the front part of the school, while they are in pods and the other building in the back of the property. The lines are horrific and long and are going to be extremely annoying this year.

Bekah is staying with one of the moms at church during the day until September when preschool starts here at the church.

Summer is doing well at her new job. I think she really likes it.

I have had 3 computers come across my desk over the past 2 weeks that have had a ton of viruses. It has been really frustrating fighting them. It makes me glad I'm on a Mac. No viruses or spyware.

If you have a PC, please keep your virus protection and spyware protection updated and running on a regular basis. This will take care of the majority of problems.

Also, don't open unknown attachments or links. Viruses and spyware can even send email from people you know.

I say this so that your life may be less stressful.

Strange Dreams and Swimming

Monday was a day to remember. If you don't know my wife very well, then you probably didn't know that she has ever since I've known her been terrified of water. So much so that she could not put her head under water for more than a fraction of a second without having a panic attack.

Our two oldest are jumping in the deep end and off the diving board head first without floaties, so she decided she needed to get over this intense fear that she has. Monday I worked with her for 2 hours. We started by holding our breath above water, then holding our breath under water. I then had her go underwater and push off the side of the pool and glide to the other side. (this is all in the shallow end at this point.) Then I had her jump in the deep end. She stood there forever and even got emotional trying to convince herself to do it. After she did it was a mixed bag of tears and smiles on her part. Later she jumped off the diving board, dove in head first and treaded water in the deep end. I'm so proud of her for overcoming her fear of water.

Maybe next Monday she can help me overcome my fear of bumble bees. :)

I've been having crazy dreams the past two nights. Last night I dreamed about barbershop judges torturing a quartet and Ben Young of all people. In my dream I wouldn't have it and I retaliated and was going to bring the whole thing down. Crazy isn't it. My wife even heard me talking in my sleep when they were torturing Ben and I was saying "No, you can't do this anymore"

The funny thing about it all is that the past couple of mornings, I've felt very rested which is not normal. I'm usually tired every day because I don't sleep well. Oh well. Maybe I'll keep dreaming.