In love with fall!!

Here we are at the beginning of fall and I am soo happy. I heard that fall in Central Oregon can be crazy, but I had no idea! Yesterday was 70 something and hazy from a near by fire, but today is lower 50's and hailing!!! Wow, here comes winter? or maybe this is fall....

Whatever it is I love it. Sunday was my amazing Ethan's 8th birthday. He celebrated and celebrated and celebrated some more. I love that my son has such a healthy self image. He really loves celebrating himself. So much like his mommy :o) It was also the anniversary of my original MRI and diagnosis of the brain tumor. To see how far we had come in 2 years, from devastation, having our feet knocked out from underneath us and not knowing what the future would hold, to a brand new start, a baby on the way and more joy than we thought possible. Amazing, simply amazing.

So much has happened in the last month since my previous post. I'll try to sum it all up.

• Ethan started 2nd grade in the public school system. Except for one day of tears, he is in heaven, absolutely LOVES school. We prayed that the Lord would give him the best teacher, and He certainly did! Mrs. Lence has been an answer to prayer in everyway for our Ethan.
• Daniel's cousin Paul got married. What a happy occasion that brought great great joy to all of the family. Paul married Fenny a wonderful woman from our church here in Bend. With the happy occasion brought lots of family.
• Which leads me here, Daniel's family all came in for the wedding. His parents were here along with his brother and family. We had a very very full house, but it was amazing. So much fun to finally meet Levi, the young man Neal and Diane (Daniel's parents) are foster caring for, and to finally meet Jon and Cyndi's twins. Justice and Jaxon are almost 8 months old and just a ton of fun.
• Micah and I began homeschooling again. He is doing just wonderfully.
• Daniel and Dad are still painting houses, even though work has slowed, God is so faithful and we are seeing amazing answers to prayer in our finances every single month.
• Had our second and third Dr. appointments. Saw the baby on the ultrasound, lots of wiggling and moving and then heard the heartbeat nice and strong. I'm beginning to feel movement and the majority of the morning sickness is over!!! God is so good.

So on we go with a new season literally. Looking forward to fall and all the joy this season brings. Praying your family finds great joy in this season as well.