Friese~Party of 5: Fall-"ing" back & catching up!!

I feel like we have just had the best Fall! Truly beautiful weather and days filled with fun, milestones and precious & priceless time together as family friends!

We have wrapped up the fall session of swimming lessons for Malia & Morgan, Soccer is still "in-session" for Morgan, Basketball is just getting into full swing for Malia, Piano lessons are going so good for Malia (she started playing some Christmas music this week & I almost put in one of my Christmas CD's (crazy, I know!!), oh and..........Marshall is POTTY TRAINED!!! We enjoyed some fishing as a family this fall, too! The kids all caught so many little fish and it was quite a riot at the time!
Tim just finished his football season for reffing and is now gearing up for his basketball season! I am trying to figure out this blogging stuff and today I started my long-awaited project of painting the trim inside our house white (I can't wait to post the before & after pics!)!!! We have a weird built-in type of hutch that I took the doors off of and then took everything out of and I am converting that from a hutch to a "homework" station & bookshelf for the girls. I am excited for the baskets and bins to go in there and for it to be updated to something way more useful than just holding the minuscule "pretty" things I own! Plus I love all the new organizational bins & baskets that I see everywhere and I like things to serve a purpose & be useful...and not to just sit there! Maybe that's why I feel like I never sit down--always something I should be doing and getting done!

Work is going great for me, it has been a great last couple of months! I really enjoy all the gals at work--our team work is amazing--and the doctors are pretty incredible, too. It's nice to get up and enjoy going to work!

This past weekend we were finally able to head to Pine Island to visit Tim's parents and other extended family and it's so fun to go their place out on the farm. The kids have so much fun outside running with the dogs and playing in the shed (I would call it a shop...but to them it's a shed! Tim explained the difference to me...I call it a shop because I grew up with a dad who could fix anything in his "shop". Tim's family calls it a shed because they don't fix much--just store stuff in the "shed"!! ((so true, so true)) ) At night, the stars are so beautiful--not quite like a Montana "Big Sky" night of starts, but as close as I'm going to get living in MN!

We also had the blessing of going to church at Harvest Bible Chapel in Rochester. Tim's 2nd cousin Steve Deedrick & his wife Kim are the "church planters" and we were there for their 6th Sunday at their location at a local middle school. Steve really has been blessed with a gift of sharing God's Word and his passion for Christ and seeing others come to Christ and live effectively for Christ is so contagious!

Tonight we enjoyed a small little fire outside and had some toasted marshmallows! Marshall really enjoys bonfires--maybe a little too much!! Although, in the middle of toasting his marshmallow he got up and said, "Well, I'm going to go look for that little froggy"...he did get up and then go down the slide in the dark, but he did not find his little froggy! He is pretty funny.

The kids are now in bed and I am going to end for the night, but then try to figure out how to post some pictures! Thanks for "catching" up on our crazy Party of 5!! I enjoy all the updates I see and read either on FB or on the few blogs that I follow! Technology is so amazing and it's fun to how even our kids are so involved in this new technology age at such a young age already!