update...

It's been a while since I've written. Once school begins, things seem to get crazy and time seems to fly by.
Last week-end we were gone all week-end up north for our annual Shout to the North choir concerts. Our church choir heads up north to 2 churches for concerts. This is all to raise money for our mission trip to Guatemala each year. We stayed with parents of a friend from our church. We had a ball. The kids spent most of the day riding 4-wheelers (with adults, of course). It was a beautiful week-end with about the end of the Fall colors. The concerts were fun and a major blessing!
Sunday evening, we finished off the week-end with a Portland Pirates hockey game. We were in the 2nd row. Asa was scared for most of the 1st period, but he was fascinated with the game at the same time. We went with about 20 other church folks. It was a very fun week-end. Now, we are all exhausted and coming down with colds. :(
Other than that, life continues on. Parent teacher conferences are this week. We met with Paola's teacher today. She is doing well. We're glad she is repeating 2nd grade. She seems much happier this year and is making good progress. We meet with Christian's teacher tomorrow. We've seen huge improvements in his reading so far this year.
And, on Saturday we have our big "Heroes Unmasked" Fall event at church. It's a lot of fun for the kids--with LOTS of candy! :)
I've ordered 2 courses from the American Association of Christian Counselors for Life Coaching training. I'm excited to take the courses and look forward to being a certified Life Coach. I hope to be able to use that next year when all 3 kids are in school full-time. I'm already praying often about where God could use me in that capacity.
I'm still running and swimming each week, along with a muscle toning class once a week. I've let the biking go for now. I want to focus more on running over the winter months. And, I love swimming, so it doesn't even seem like a work out to me because I enjoy it so much. I have to force myself to get out of the water! :)
Anyway....all for now.....