Well, I thought about quitting the blog...for like...seven months. But I just can't quit...for lots of reasons. So, here we are again! I'm not even gonna try to cover the last seven months but I might throw in a recap here and there.

Right now...

...we are still adjusting to our school routine. As much as I like to think that my boys have trouble with change, I am seeing that I struggle just as much (if not more, ahem).

...we are waking up at 6:30a to dress, eat, pack lunches and snacks, find library books, sign permission slips and get out to the end of the driveway by 7:32a to get on the bus. 

...Mason is enjoying 2nd grade with Mrs. Breault (pronounced "Bro").
...Smith is rocking 2nd grade with Miss Perry.
...Sawyer loves kindergarten with Mrs. Moellenkamp.

...Gunner asks me several times a day, "Where's Smith?", "Where's Fiddy?", "Where's Sawyer?".

...Gunner calls Mason "Fiddy"...which sounds like Smitty. 

...Matt is blessedly busy building homes...when he's not bow-hunting.

...I am wondering why my 2nd graders have so much flipping homework. I just want them to be able to play when they get home! 

...Sawyer is taking group piano lessons on Monday afternoons. And, he likes to practice his piano...may it ever be so!

...we are finding big, black crickets in our house. Blech. Mason picks them up by the legs, bare-handed, and flushes them down the toilet for me. These boys is handy.

...bed-time comes far too quickly when there is dinner to eat, homework to complete, baths to be taken, books to be read, piano to be played, and 4 silly boys to be enjoyed.

...Matt and I are rocking our 10th (!) year of marriage. Cah - razy. 

...this verse

I said to myself, “Relax and rest.
    God has showered you with blessings.
    Soul, you’ve been rescued from death;
    Eye, you’ve been rescued from tears;
    And you, Foot, were kept from stumbling.”

 I’m striding in the presence of God,
    alive in the land of the living!

Psalm 116:7-9 (msg)

reminds me that right now, in this very moment, I have everything. 

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Flashback to the annual Schuyler men's camping trip on the Boulder. I wasn't there, obviously, so enjoy pics without commentary! :)