Happy Fall!

Fall is my favorite time of the year--cooler temperatures, hot drinks, colorful leaves, rain, all things pumpkin, sweatshirts, apple picking, crunchy leaves, and the list could. go. on. forever.

School is off to a great start!  While it is not without its challenges, I love my job.  I cannot describe the difference this new position has been.  I must confess, while I had some hesitation to teaching this age, and a combo class at that, God has been working in my heart. I am loving my job! Lesson preparations take a lot more work, grading takes much longer, and I sense a more seriousness in having to prepare them for middle school.  Despite these added challenges, I can't see myself doing anything else.  God is so good!

One of my favorite things about being an adult is being able to take a situation and determine if the "consequences" are worth it.  For the mister and I, the question usually goes something like this, "Is it worth how exhausted we will be afterwards?"  And the answer usually goes like this, "Eh, we are young and will bounce back afterwards.  We only live once and don't want to regret saying "no" to this because we didn't want to sacrifice our energy."  Most of the time, we are thankful we "went for it", despite how exhausted we may be afterwards.

The first day of school, we chose to go visit the mister's sister who lives an hour and a half away, because she was getting her new German Shepherd puppy.

The following Monday, the mister left for a two week training on Eddy Current Inspection.  It was good timing though because I had a lot of extra work to be done at school with it just having started.  He has been able to get several extra training this year.  While I miss him terribly, we see this as an opportunity to prepare for the mission field.  We don't know what he will need on the field, and so we are thankful for these times when he is able to be trained further in his career.

While the mister was on training, he had a birthday!  I was able to fly out Friday night and spend the weekend with him.  While we were out there, we went to the National Museum United States Air Force.  It was huge, and it was amazing.  Since marrying the mister, my interest in avionics has increased exponentially.  I learned a lot at the museum, but enjoyed the time with my man most.

The mister got home on Friday, did a load of laundry, and then we went to his parents for the weekend with his sister and puppy.  It was a relaxing weekend together.

A few weekends later we were able to catch up on some much needed time together.  We had a day on the road, which ended with apple picking and time with family. The time together was refreshing.  With the apples I was able to can four pints of apple sauce.  Four pints are embarrassing compared to the twenty quarts I used to help my mom with, but it was a fun project.

All of this to say...our little family is loving this season!  We are loving this season of our marriage.  We are loving this season of weather, We are loving this season of life that the Lord has us in.