We are a tremendously active family. We love all types of sports and spend a lot of time doing them. We love the beach. We live about 5 miles away and go down a lot. We both love to surf. Cedric loves the water and will be surfing soon. We love being at the beach and having the downtime as well. We spend a lot of time going on walks and playing soccer there. We believe that activities are a vehicle to family togetherness and relationship building. We take a lot of surfing/camping trips together. We love to accomplish things. We both just decided to run a marathon just to finish that lifetime goal. That will be our first and last one! It was pretty hard. Tyson loves surfing (obviously), cycling, running, soccer, tennis, and pretty much anything that is outside. He also loves music (he has a huge collection of everything from classical to reggae), making things with wood, laying on his hammock, and just hanging out with his family. Jennie loves surfing, yoga, tennis, running, photography, cooking, and blogging. Cedric loves working out with dad (2 year old sit ups are so cute!), his bicycle, being at the beach, reading, dancing, and any sport that has to do with a ball.
We love to learn new things. We know that education is the key to a secure future and it is stressed in our home. We love to travel and experience new cultures. We believe also that as you expose your children to other cultures they understand more about themselves and the world around them. We plan on doing a lot of traveling as our family grows.
We are a religious family. Our faith in Jesus Christ and God's plan for our lives drives us each day. We are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. We believe that you must build your family on the principles taught in scripture. We have been sealed together for time and all eternity, meaning that our family does not end in death, but is together forever. We teach the principles of Christ's gospel in our home. We do this on a daily basis and then on Monday night we have "Family Home Evening." This night is especially for our family to do something together. This ranges from something fun like a water balloon fight to us discussing scriptures and teaching things like honesty, kindness, charity, faith, etc. In our church the members have "callings" in which you are asked to serve the ward (a small unit of our worldwide church). Currently Tyson is the second counselor in the Bishopric (a bishop is kind of like a pastor/minister, he oversees the ward). Jennie is the second counselor in the Relief Society Presidency (Relief Society is a women's organization - the largest in the world - that helps women in time of need). Our children will spend time learning every week in church and being a part of Primary, Young Men or Young Women programs. These programs help children learn and understand the gospel of Jesus Christ. Then they put this knowledge into action by doing service projects and such. We believe in being actively involved in the community in improving what we can and doing our part to make our community a better place.
We also love to have downtime together as a family where we just sit and talk on our hammock or watch a good program or movie. We spend a lot of time in our backyard either on the hammock talking or exploring with Cedric. Each week we have a “party night” in which we get take out and eat it in the living room while watching a fun movie (aren't we so exciting!). We have a firepit in our backyard and we spend many nights outside roasting hotdogs and eating smores. Yumm!
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