Parker's Update

WOW, it has been a while since we last wrote a blog. And you thought that you could get out of it! Lately, I've been busy with the convention! Lots of fun! A few of my friends and I attended this reformed Christian convention with over 900 kids. We stayed at the college and had tons of fun goofing off and playing card games! But that wasn't the most important part of it. We had these things called sessions, where we sang songs and then a speaker got up and spoke about stuff.

The work that I do for CB4Truth is awesome, and I hope that we will be able to continue it for many years. I also must needs mention that...WE...HAVE...SHIRTS!!!! Yes, ladies and gentlemen, we now have awesome shirts that Noah designed. They are pretty stylish and all that jazz, or rock...or classical music.. whatever floats your boat

School started up again, so I got that going for me. We are having a debate relatively soon, mostly this year we are studying art and stuff (foreshadowing episode...) I also use this program to learn Latin; it's called Picta-Dicta. It basically uses pictures and words to teach you Latin, pretty neat, right?

Also, something that happened, our basement flooded, and WE GOT A NEW CAT!!! Our friend found it on the street, and so we decided to take it in. She is a little sick, but overall is doing pretty well. Her name is Juliet and she is black with a little bit of brown. She is about 2 months old. 

Seeing Noah's brother get married was pretty cool, too. I spent a night at his house, and we went to my youth group together on Sunday. 

ANYWAYS, I'm not very good at writing stuff for very long so I'll head out here. BYE!!!

Oh, I almost forgot... To make the clubhouse appear, we have to say the MAGIC WORDS!!!

Say it with me...

Miska....

Mooska...

Stay with the Truth!!!

Noah's Update

HOI!!! IT'S I!!! Boah Noss. Your regular everyday noah.

WELCOME TO BLOG #4!

What's been happening?

Wellllll... Since my last weblog, (that's what blog is short for), I now have 30 total lawn clients. I am working 30 hour weeks, and I usually only mow about 20 lawns a week, because some are every other, and one of my older sisters, Hailey, is mowing 3 right now until she goes back to college.

I went on a hiking trip with Matthew on July 7 - 9. We went to the porcupine mountains and hiked 28 miles with our 30 pound backpacks. So that's fun! Except for the fact that we had to hike for like 15 miles one day. I'll have you know though, IT WAS EPIC! Some highlights are that:

•  A bear visited our site, and was sniffing around my tent. . . . . . . while I was in it!

• It rained the very first night we were there.

• Matt lugged along a full sized axe, so we were throwing it at a tree.

• A chipmunk named Snoopy was snooping and spying on us the entire time. (HE RUNS A GANG TOO!)

• Lake superior was really cool and foggy - the shores were all rocky as well!

• There was like a mountain thing that we went up. You can see it in some of the pictures.

• I got a cold.

• Oh yeah, and my Mom and Mrs. Jackowski went along too.

Below are some pictures from the trip! My phone died the 2nd day, so I was unable to take terribly many pictures. :( IT WAS STILL A CRAZY AND SPLENDIFFEROUS TRIP!!!

                                                                                                                                                   (Pronounced MAD-el-in)

My older brother, Calvin, is getting married to the amazing MADELINE MARTINEZ on August 16!!! I am a groomsman, and will be giving a speech. I will see if someone can record it so that I can put it in the next blog. Both Parker and Matt are going to the wedding (my plus 2's lol) so we will be sure to get a buncha photos of us there. The colour for the groomsmen is TAN! and the colour for the bridesmaiden is light pink. I built the wedding arch for the wedding. It is also in the photo slidey guy below my post thingy.

I am preparing and training to run a half marathon in September. The cross country season is chugging along, I did my first race not too long ago and got a personal record. - Running really is more of a personal sport, it's not much of a team thing, because for 1, our highschool teime really only consists of me and MAYBE another kid will join when we officially begin to go against other schools... but not for certain. Thus there is an 'i' in teime. And there's also a me! So really, there should be a Noah in teime! TEINOAHME. (Pronounced TEAM) THAT'S BETTER!!! 

I am on a family vacation from August 1 - 10. That means Matthew is taking over my lawns for the week that I am gone. Where are we going, you may ask? NORTH CAROLINA!!!

That's right big ol' NC. We will be spending half the time there in the mountains, and half the time by the coast at the beach. It will be very exciting. There are SO many pictures I will want to share with y'all who actually read the blogs! So... stay tuned until the next one!

I've got a lot of yard work jobs coming up: Completely cutting back and weeding one guy's beds around his house. Mulch around trees for a business. Bush trimming jobs at one guy's house. Also weed spraying driveways and side walks. MULCHING FOR MY CHURCH!!! 21 CUBIC YARDS TOTAL IS WHAT IT TOOK!!! Lawn applications in Orland. Cutting out and replacing dead grass with new sod also in Orland Park. It's a lot. And I realize that really none of those above things in this paragraph are actually valid sentences. They ain't got no verb!!! YEsS,,, Gramamar./!

What else am I doing?

Well, let me create a whole nother paragraph!

Okay.

So.

I will be doing 3 more college duel enrollment classes through CC+ this school year. (I did 2 last year.) These go towards college credits. I do them now so I don't have to do as many credits later! Going into challenge III will be a bit of a challenge. Either way, it will be exciting. Parker is lucky for now that he doesn't have to do poetry and this extensive history. He will get to it next year though. My Classical Conversations starts August 19th. A VERY HECTIC TIME FOR ME SINCE I WILL HAVE TO KEEP UP WITH ALL THAT YARD WORK, MOWING 30 LAWNS BC HAILEY IS GOING BACK TO COLLEGE, WEDDING PREPERATION AND REHERSAL THE VERY SAME WEEK, GETTING BACK FROM VACATION AND THE INCLUDED CATCH UP AS WELL, CROSS COUNTRY, SPENDING 10 HOURS A WEEK ON CB4TRUTH, STARTING SPEECH AND DEBATE AGAIN, STAYING ALIVE, HAVING A SOCIAL LIFE, and keeping up with said school work that starts then. Not to mention getting sleep? Oh well. It's 12: 14 AM on a Monday night. Or I guess Tuesday morning? Am I slap happy? I just finished sending out invoices, and now am working on my blog. Also, the all caps up there is for emphasis, I'm not yelling, its just idk. Its a figure of speech - or maybe figure of type.

But yeah.

This blog is very blogulous. I guess the only thing that is keeping it from being horrible is that it hasn't been invaded by Russian Space Pirates who shoot vodka bottles out of their spacey flintlock pistols!

"VE VILL VORCE YOU TO EET ZE WODKA!!! 

ZURRENDER OR FACE ZE WRATH OF MOTHER RUSSIA!!!"

Never mind... We're Doomed!

Aaaaaaaaaanyways... this is just your regular, everyday noah, reporting back in to remind you, and remind myself: to keep clinging on to Jesus's promises - to keep holding on for dear life to God's word; and to stay

    with

   the

   Truth.

Matthew's Update

 Hola, Como estas! Bueno? This is a Blog where I have actually started mine first! I just got back from my missions trip from Honduras, then from the U.P with Noah, and now this weekend I'm leaving for Maine because my cousin's wedding.  My July has been swamped and no doubt so has everyone else's. This is crazy! Please send us your most crazy thing that has happened this month. Email it to us at  cb4truth@gmail.com. Anyway, let's talk Honduras.  I don't know if you listened to our Episode when Parker and I were given an opportunity to share a little bit about our missions trips to central and southern America. I was in Honduras for a week with my church Living Stones and two other churches. Our church belongs to the NRP Network. NRP stands for Network of Related Pastors. Through this network we are able to coordinate missions trips like the one I attended. If you did not listen to the podcast episode where we talk about the importance of the mission of God and the spreading of the gospel. That episode is number 25 we talk about missions trips for the entire episode but if you're really interested in the testimonies the best way to experience it is through fast-forwarding to 12:42 which is during the music transition into the testimonies. Go and watch it because it will tell you everything, I experienced firsthand! 

It is the second week in August. I have started school again and oh boy is it painful. Not to mention how I just completed all of Noah's lawn this past week while he was on vacation. That was rough because I had to get up at 5:30 almost every morning! Hockey has started and with it the painful practices and countless hours of drills. Not a whole lot going on right now just trying to get back into the rhythm of school. This hasn't been the longest blog in history, but it a smooth sweet one. I hope you guys have a great week! Catch you soon! Don't be lazy about school! We are always watching. 

Here is Noah creating one of the WORST thumbnails! (16 times speed)

The video is only 2 minutes and 34 seconds long: so no need to worry.