Look what I found today!!!!

Fall is here!!!

I'm so glad that October has come. I love cool, crisp air, apple pie and pumpkin patches. Sweatshirt weather and football season is the best!!!! Of course I am reminded of how HOT I am going to be in Singapore!!!!!

We are in full swing with school and Fall activities. Kyle is loving school and doing very well in all of his classes. He has a very cool math teacher (his worst subject) who he loves. She talks to him about her love of snowboarding, skiing, etc and Kyle just loves that she has a nose ring. Hey whatever works, right? His math grade has greatly improved since joining her class!

Grace loves preschool and is learning a lot. The other day she was in her room counting to ten in spanish!!! I was pretty impressed. She loves to color, draw, and sort things. She is still so very sweet and is such a joy to be around!

Bethany hangs with me most days, although I have her in a mom's morning out on Friday's so those are the days I have all the kids in school at one time. I have to say, most Friday's I don't know what to do with myself. Bethany loves to play outside and mostly pick on her big sister!!! She may be smaller but she just loves to annoy and antagonize Grace.....stealing and hiding Grace's toys, shutting the tv off when Grace is watching something, drinking from Grace's sippy cup (why that is appealing I have no idea...both of the girls cups have the same exact juice in them, just different color cups.....I guess the forbidden does taste better). She's really very sweet but definitely has a mischievous side!

Darin will begin his workups for his new ship this Fall with a deployment looming ahead in January. We are hoping they allow him off the ship a few weeks early to return home to prepare for our summer departure for Singapore. We hope he will be able to come home in May as opposed to June to give us some time to prepare for an early July departure. We'll see if it works out! Please pray as we go into this deployment! It's Darin's fifth deployment in six years and he's tired of leaving the family! I am not to thrilled about the single parent thing either!!!! We know we are where God wants us to be but it's not always easy. In Him we find strength!

This is quite long so I'll stop for now!!! Love you all! Lori