Fall

WE CAN'T BELIEVE IT IS NOVEMBER ALREADY! And here we are, still in MN. We usually go through spurts where life is busy and stressful and then life is REALLY busy and REALLY stressful for a time and then back to busy and stressful...just like everyone else. We keep waiting for this REALLY busy and REALLY stressful time to pass but it just doesn't want to. (My favorite new country song..."Sounds Like Life To Me"...this is true for everyone.) In fact, this time last year started a new round of REALLY BUSY and REALLY stressful and it hasn't stopped...this is just life I guess.

Almost one year ago, November 17th, 2009 was the day little Isaac was diagnosed with Juvenile Diabetes. This STILL brings a great amount of stress to us as it is very difficult to keep him regulated despite our best efforts to do so. Isaac has been poked about 3,200 times this year to control his diabetes either for blood sugar checks or to get insulin. He is amazing and even likes to do his blood tests himself. We are working on having Joshua trained but it makes Isaac a little nervous. We still are really grateful that it happened at such a young age...it's just all he knows. We did have a little mishap with Isaac's Diabetes bag and supplies while in our rush to get out of the house for a showing. Someone left the bag ON the car and it got run over and completely destroyed.



The house has been on the market for 33 days and no luck yet. There isn't even hardly any traffic coming through. We will wait as patiently as we can. It would be ideal to sell in the next 3 weeks or the company will have to change their plans. It is really tiring having the house PERFECT ALL OF THE TIME. We especially love those 2 minutes warnings for showings. It will happen when it is supposed to. We already told the kids that Christmas is cancelled...at least the traditional tree and other such "worldly" traditions. Here are some of the finishing touches we did on the hosue.







The kids have been enjoying their fall with cross country running at school, leaves in the yard, and Halloween. We didn't get very creative for costumes this year. We were lucky to pull together ANY costumes this year. We tried to do the city walk again this year but the line was ridiculously long. We had never seen it like that before...we didn't think that many people lived here. So, we asked the kids if they wanted to stand in line for an hour and a half and then possibly not get anything if they ran out or if they wanted to go to the store and pick out their own bags of candy and go home and watch the halloween shows on TV. Luckily, they picked the store and shows so we took off. This way, they actually get to EAT their candy since we can pick ones with no fat and no peanuts. You can't avoid sugar/carbs.

Noah is the one in black in the middle getting ready to take off.

Matthew got to run with two 5th graders by his side and they did about the last 1/4 of the distance the other kids did so he wouldn't tire out. It was perfect!


We had a Clifford, Calvin & Hobbes, a wizard, and a guy with goofy glasses.


All but one of our doctors have been notified that we are moving and they have all been great. Each one had someone right off the top of their head in the area we are going to that would be able to meet our needs. We will really miss our team here. Hopefully we will be blessed with just as great doctors there as we were here. REALLY, REALLY hoping that the IEPs and other such things transfer over with no problem as well. Our realtor has assured us that there is a registered nurse in every school building so that is good.

Here are a few random other pictures for fun.




We celebrated the last of the birthdays for this year...Mike turned...OLD! We celebrated our 14th wedding anniversary with parent/teacher conferences and Matthew's IVIG. Time is just flying by...but with it being November...we will say that we are grateful for time, no matter how fast it wants to go. We are so grateful for our family and for all of the fun adventures we've had here in Minnesota and look forward to new adventures...very SOON...together in Georgia.