Well, September was a GREAT month for us. 

We were married 20 yrs on Sept. 3.  Wow!!  We aren't old enough to have been married 20 yrs!!!!  When P proposed to me, he had my ring tied on a dozen roses & wrote a sweet poem asking me to marry him.  I was so young & DUMB that I didn't GET IT until he pointed out the ring on the roses!!!  Well, on our anniversary I woke up to find roses & lillies on the table.  As soon as I bent down to smell the roses I saw the ring in the lilly!!!  I told him...  You didn't get me this time!!!  Well, the joke was on me AGAIN!!  A good 30 min later he asked if I was going to take any pictures of the ring in the flower.  So I did and he said....  Stand on the chair so you can see BOTH lillies.  N stood in the chair next to me & I was shocked when he said....  Mom!!!  There's another ring in this one!!!!  Sigh....  He got me AGAIN!!!  I have the BEST husband in the world!!! 

We started school the last week of August and we absolutely LOVE our curriculum this year!!  The boys are doing great with it!  This is the 1st year EVER that we actually get up and start school by 8-8:30 EVERY DAY!!!  I am amazed with all of us!! 

We are going thru the Old Testament this year and we have had some really good "new" lessons come out of scripture that I've read a hundred times before!  God is so good to us!  We are studying Old Testament Feasts & celebrations.  In September we learned about the Sabbath and how to celebrate it from a Christian perspective rather than Jewish.  I was really overwhelmed by it at first but then I was so glad we did go ahead & do the study & the actual celebration becuz it became an amazing time of bonding for our family!! 

The boys are really enjoying the art program we are doing this year too!  We do art LAST so that they have that to look forward to after all the other school work.  We took a fieldtrip to the Post Office and another to the Staked Plains Round-up where we learned about Ranching Life.  T & N are in the Community Choir this year and they are having fun with that.

I do not like the Fall and I really fight depression when the leaves start turning.  We had several cloudy & rainy days which don't help either but overall, September turned out to be a really good month.

We left Oct. 1 and took 2 weeks off to celebrate our anniversary.  We had a wonderful vacation that I will blog about later today.

So for now here are some pics from the end of Summer and our 1st month of school.