Morgan's 1st Day of School!

Here is Morgan in front of her locker the first day of school......uh, 2 weeks ago! She is so in love with school! In fact, on the first day, she told her teacher that she loved her! To which her teacher replied, oh what a nice thing to say Morgan. Hey that's my kid...and me. It's all or nothing, almost never a middle ground.

We get homework every night which consists of reading/phonics, math, and a bible verse a week that she repeats each night 5 times. The reading so far has been vowels. The first week we worked on writing and saying short a, the second short e. The math has been just identifying, talking about, and writing numbers. Her first verse was: And God said let there be light, and there was light. Genesis 1:3. Last weeks verse was: Beloved, Let us love one another, for love is of God. 1 John 4:7. I love it! It is great and she loves having more substantial conversations about God and Jesus. We even got our first invite from school to attend a birthday party!

Needless to say I am thrilled and so excited to see her learn!

Various Updates

I can't believe it.....summer is over.... Have you seen lately, leaves on the yards as your driving out of your neighborhood or around town? I even saw on my way up to the golf shop a couple trees that have already changed colors! I just can't believe that the summer has gone so quickly. And believe me, I am thankful after a hard and full summer. As we are switching gears towards fall/winter I am looking forward to our new schedule. Morgan starts Kindergarden Monday! She will be going half days in the afternoon m-f. I am told by November she will be reading and by May at a first grade level. This is just so hard for me to grasp - she is only 4 and will be reading!?! Wow.... Not only that but she will be memorizing new bible verses every week. Tuesday we went for orientation and meet the teacher. Here is a picture of Morg's just before we left:

Morgan is also taking a ballet class on Wednesday mornings. It is a pretty structured class and seems to be a serious dance company. She is so excited and so are we that she won't be twirling into anymore furniture! The kid seriously scares me.....you know at 18 months we took her to the ER near grandma and grandpa bauer's for twirling into a rocking chair and smacking her forhead on the arm! So here she is after her twirling adventure:

Morgan will also be doing Awana this year, which will be new for her.

Some things that I will be up to are returning to CBS on Tuesday mornings again with the girls, which I LOVE doing. We will be studing John this year, as well as my church, and the small group I am going to lead at church this fall/winter. Yes, finally after a couple years of dodging this request, I finally am stepping out in faith to do this. And surprizingly I am not really all that scared like I was a year ago. But I finally came to realize that I am doing nothing to help further God's kingdom by being perfectly comfortable in my small group. God hasn't called us to a life of comfort, but rather on being in constant need for Him. So, I am saying YES, and believing that God will use me for His purpose. Please pray for me if you think of it, I WILL need it. I also plan on working at the club two days a week - Thursday and Friday.

As for Addy - I think she will spend her past time with me working on walking and talking!

Of course, as always, we will be looking forward to some skiing time as well!