A whole month has come and gone!

I've been a very lazy blogger lately. It's been almost a month since my last post. Even now I am doing this entry too late but I couldn't let it go another day!

Since I last posted:
-Ryan has prepared for and begun his new school year (Again, as the only adult male in the whole school and teaching grade 5 French immersion)
-We've prayed and fasted for Grandma and Grandpa and are sending our prayers and love long distance
-Claire has had a week of her PUF programming in the GRIT program and it's been a great start (Cheryl works with Claire 3 hours a day, 5 days a week. We have lots of outings, play groups, library groups, etc. and lots of goals to work on at home. It's going to get Claire whipped into shape for when we do preschool next year!)
-I've had my first adventure at the cannery in Sherwood Park (I love that place! What nice people and a great program.)
-We've had an apartment flood (it happened above Greg and Stephanie's suite! They have been so patient during the repairs. They're almost done!)
-I've kept up my exercising at Curves three times a week (It's a great boost for energy and strength. Next step - nutrition goals. 1. No eating after 7:30pm. 2. Portion control.)
-I've started teaching piano lessons for the first time (It's great! My little student is very energetic and easy to teach.)
-We had a great long weekend at Wetaskiwin and various other day activities while trying to maximize Ryan's last days of freedom before school!
-We had great fun at Christopher Dick's 2nd birthday party!
-We've come a step closer to finding a diagnosis for Claire's disabilities. (Her neurologist at the Glenrose, Dr. Bolduc, discovered a deletion on her 14th chromosome. He has only found 2 papers published on the subject and they were just written this summer. It's a fairly new entity. We meet with him this Tuesday to get more information.)
-We also got some informal family pictures taken by Val Brandham and her awesome camera. Out of about 300 pictures we managed to squeak out a few good ones where we look relatively normal! Here are some of our favourite ones:













Here's the gang enjoying the fall weather at Lion's Park in St. Albert for the birthday party.

Here's one of our Scrabble boards. Ryan and I like to challenge each other and also like to take pictures of each finished board. This round we used everything except the "Z."

Hopefully I will be able to keep up more diligently in order to record the comings and goings of our lives.