DuPeire Family Update

Okay, so where do I begin???

Austyn: Well, a few weeks ago Austyn turned 13!! I am TOTALLY amazed that he is now officially a teenager. YIKES! It really does seem like just yesterday that I was coming home from the hospital with him and that all the cousin's were there to welcome their new baby cousin! We are so blessed to have him in our life. Austyn and I have the same personality and we butt heads alot but we learn so much from each other. He is trying to become more independant and I am having a hard time with it. I know I need to begin to SLOWLY let him grow up but it sure is hard!

Austyn finished his last year of U14 soccer this year. Their team did great and only lost one game and that was to the other Imperial team. He also played on the U19 team this year and that was a good experience for him. He got to play with older and more experienced players. He also tried out for a summer traveling soccer team and he was chosen but he would not have gotten much playing time if any and so we opted to wait another year to do it. Austyn will be going to summer camp this summer and he is so excited. He has raised all of his money and he is one of the first ones to do that. This is the camp that we took our youth kids to for so many years. It is in California and Matt and I get to go with him this year. This camp is AMAZING and we are praying for great spiritual growth for him and his 7 other fellow youth kids that are going!

Bubba had a great soccer season this year. This was the last year that him and Austyn get to play on the same team for a few years. It was so much fun to have them on the same team. Bubba is now playing baseball. He has not played in several years and he is excited to do it again. He has a great coach and he gets to play with his cousin Kyler who just moved here from Arizona. Bubba is looking forward to a summer trip with his grandma. While Matt and I and Austyn are in Califonia he gets to fly with his grandma for a week long trip to Wisconsin to see relatives. Bubba still enjoys the farm animals and was the proud daddy of 30 baby chicks this spring. At this moment he has a momma goose sitting on 8 eggs and he is hoping and praying that they hatch. They have caught 2 snakes trying to snatch the eggs. I don't know how the snake thinks it is going to eat those eggs. They are so big!

Matt has officially begun a new business. He is now running a carpet cleaning business. He is trying to do that as well as truck driving. He has a driver coming to work for us in a few weeks so he will dedicate his time to the carpet cleaning. We are praying that it works into full time work for him. He would love to work 3-4 days a week carpet cleaning and then have 1-2 days to dedicate at the church. There is so much to be done at the church that it would be wonderful if he could be there at least 1 if not 2 days a week.

I continue to do whatever needs to be done. I am loking forward to playing softball this summer with the city league. Our church has a team and Matt and I both play on it. It is a fun thing that Matt and I can do together as well as with friends!

Matt's biological sister Kristina (Hope)and her family moved here this past week. The boys are glad to have their cousins nearby. (just down the road) We are glad to have Kristina nearby too. Pray for their adjustment!

This is just an skeleton idea of what is going on with us. Drop us an email and give us updates on each of you!

We love you all!!!

The DuPeire's

Will post pic's later on!