Changing Seasons

Life has once again thrown new challenges and adventures our way. I will make this short and brief as I catch you up on the last 3 months.



Jalen started 3rd grade end of August and has been sailing right through. He has adjusted well to his new teacher and this is his first year with official "grades". So far so good.

He started his first year of football.. games on Tuesdays and Thursdays at Crooked Creek Park, if you have an hour to spare!

I have been back working since the middle of August. I landed a great job very suddenly with Rymarc Homes (home builder). I interviewed on a Tuesday and was working by that same Thursday. My drive is only about 8 minutes from home! I am still in the process of learning and figuring out exactly what I do... customer service/accounting/sales administration/job costing..... Needless to say, everything is going great and things fell in place so smoothly with the transition. John is very very happy about this change:)

Brandon and Karlee started back at daycare and picked up right where they left off.

John continues his studies as well as work. He has hired an additional employee to run a separate crew so his work load has doubled.

Our only major setback recently was a 4 day hospital stay for John two weeks ago. He came down with what we thought was a migraine headache (even though he has never had a migraine before) but it turned out to be viral meningitis. After a trip to the urgent care and no luck, we ended up at the emergency room within hours and the doctors determined the problem after a spinal tap. He was admitted and hooked up to strong pain meds and fluids. The viral form is very common but thankfully not as easy to catch and is NOT deadly. It takes about 2 weeks to run it's course- miserable pain in his head and neck. John is just now starting to feel normal again.. he has a new appreciation for a common headache. He is playing catch up with work/school and sleep.

We did manage fit our yearly beach trip in over labor day weekend. We enjoyed a visit to the Aquarium, a little shopping and a day at the beach.
October is a busy month for us... state fair, fall festival at school, birthdays :), football, and of course Halloween.