Connections

September has been of course a month of "getting back into the swing" of things with school and extracurricular activities - with the kids back into sports, music and with Zachary and Kaleb now having part-time jobs (Zachary at the FLC church and Kaleb being a "yard man" for Amy's old boss who lives nearby.  While we've been getting our "sea legs" back under us, we've had the chance to reconnect with friends over the month and with our church community.  Relationships are so important, and we're loving the chance after Covid to spend time with people!

Here are a few highlights of the month so far:

Grandma gave Addison a "slime factory" outing as a birthday present this year - what could be more fun for this girl who loves slime than to go with some of her besties as well!?

FLEC hosted a special chapel for grandparents day after the Covid hiatus - Addison was delighted to be able to have Grandma and Grandpa there!

Over Labor Day, we had the wonderful chance to have our friends the Biris over for dinner on Sabbath - and Abel taught Addison a "magic" card trick in which she privately chose a card, and then he "magically" guessed it (all through math algorithms).  Addison decided she wanted to try to guess his card - and SHOCKED all of us when she took the 21 cards, did the process and then picked his card!!?  And kept doing it repeatedly!?  Abel was stumped, because she did not know the math algorithm of how it was actually working --- and we all finally figured out that she was basically memorizing the cards as she went through and narrowing it down to be able to pick his card.  Too bad we are against gambling, otherwise we should take her to Vegas and let her win some money! 😂

Trying to repeat and guess his card

And having a grand laugh when she actually got it!

Amy's finance boss Todd invited his CFOs over to his lake house on a Friday evening for dinner and vespers - Kaleb helped participate in the worship by reading a verse.  It was a lovely time, and Addison enjoyed riding on his jet ski very much!

Kaleb's 8th grade class has a very organized mom who is helping to create some fun class memories with some events - their first one was a class bowling trip on Sunday evening late September - there were probably 20-30 kids that came (both girls and boys) - very fun!

The boys that were there

Amy had the chance to take Addison out on date night this month, which was fun to start that again - we headed off to the mall for a little shopping, food, and a stop at the bookstore!