Monthly Update!!

Wow!! We are well into 4th grade with Malia and a mountain of homework every night (thankful for the homework--seriously!).  Malia is also on school patrol this year (crossing guard duty)!  She loves this "job" and does it with confidence and pride in keep her school and the kids safe!!

Morgan is loving 2nd grade and her teacher is great!  She's in class with a few of her Kindergarten friends and doing well!  She loves to be social and to talk, but she is learning about when that is appropriate and when it is not!!  

AND--Marshall is a going machine who loves his trucks and mighty machines (however is a smidge sad that all the road construction right in front of our house is done)!
It's hard to believe, but Marshall is in preschool!  He goes 2 mornings a week with some buddies of his from our babysitters group and then 1 day a week to a program at a local Community Center.  He is a very social little guy!!

4th Grade

2nd Grade

Marshall & his buddy all ready for preschool!

All ready for patrol!
Patrol RULES--according to Malia!













Malia is finishing up her first travelling season of fast-pitch softball!  It's only a 6-week Fall season, but it has felt longer and she has learned a lot.  Her team is a great group of girls who encourage and cheer each other on!  It's been fun to watch each of them grow and learn!

Excited and nervous for the first game!

FRIESE #81!  I love that girl!!

Batter up--Swing Malia!!

The Team-
Mounds View Mustangs--Go Mustangs!

Still smiling after a couple great games in Baldwin, WI!

 Tim is well into the football season and enjoying his crew of officials!  Nothing like a good Friday night of football and cheering for the refs!  We're thinking they should apply for the NFL right now!! =)

Work is good!  Life is busy & crazy at times--but good!
Seems like we are entering the phase of "always on the run"--"gotta head here, then go there--then do it all over again"!  It's good though--because even in the midst of the craziness I see God working in and through us, through the kids and thankful for His guidance.
Seeing Malia stand up for her faith in school already is so amazing.  The conversations that we've had with both girls and how they are able to be confident and "tell it like is" just causes me to pray for them even more and for all of us to be bold and know that God is in control and we need to faithful.

I hopefully won't let another month slip by before I update again...especially since Malia's State tourney is this weekend and I still have a lot of updating to do from the last month--but if it does, well then, that's just how I roll!!  =)