Grace for a Day: Another School Year Has Begun!

Wow! It's October! The school year has started and it's been busy! The kids are both playing soccer this fall (I'm coaching Aliana's U7 team with a friend, and Brian's coaching Carson's U9 team), we are still leading CCW (Centaurus Christian Warriors) at Brian's high school, and enjoying the start to fall and Football Season!!

Starting in reverse order....

Men's & Women's retreats: Two different weekends in September, our church hosted retreats in the mountains. Brian and his brother went for the men's retreat and then the following weekend (at the same Young Life camp) my sister-in-law and I went! It was amazing!! The colors were starting to change in the mountains for fall and it was just beautiful. The most impacting part of the weekend was on Sunday morning when a young-single mom in our cabin was baptized!

*that's the ropes course behind us, and the zipline to the right. It was AWESOME!!

Back to School: The kids are back to school (and so are mom & dad!). I love teaching at Carson and Aliana's school, this year I moved to Elementary special education so I see the kids quite a bit in the halls and around the building! They both love their teachers and are happy to be back with friends!

*school makes us all VERY tired by the weekend!!!

Time to play... and READ! This photo cracks me up! It was not staged!!

*Fun Run with the cousins!

*Annual BrickFest in Denver!

Fall is our family birthday season!! Aliana turned 6, I turned 35 and Brian turned 36 all in September! Carson will turn 8 at the end of the month!

Fuerst Family Reunion: The weekend before we all started back to school 43 family members from Brian's mom's side me at the YMCA of the Rockies for a family reunion - which Brian's mom has been working on for THREE years! It was amazing!!