Fall 2021

 The girls have been busy since school has been back into full swing. We are grateful that school is in person so far this year!

It's been fun to see all three of these girls play stringed instruments. I love orchestra.

My cousin's on got married in October so we were able to see most of our family at the bridal shower! Bretta is the bride and she married Alex!

Allie and Ava both made their school volleyball teams. It was awesome that Ava made it because she happened to have a broken wrist during try-outs. Allie had a great season and had a lot of play time as setter and libero. This picture was taken at a middle school night at Ava's varsity game. (Ava sprained her wrist back in the spring during track, was out for a while, then fell on it again in June during volleyball. We thought it was just another sprain. We took her to the doctor in August and it turns out she broke her scaphoid bone back in June. So we felt terrible about that! She's all healed now, as I type this, and getting into club season).

Allie was inducted into the Middle School National Honor's Society. She was also voted class secretary for NJHS. We are so proud of her accomplishments!

Work on the pool trudged along slowly. We had some amazing friends come over to play volleyball after church one day, and ended up helping us epoxy the floor of the pool first! It was a lot brighter than we thought, but once the water was in, it wasn't too bad!

Ava had her first official Homecoming for high school (it was canceled her freshman year due to covid). She had a volleyball tournament in Novi that day and didn't get done will 6. So she missed pictures and dinner with her friends but made it in time for the dance, and they took a limo bus from the dance, back to a friend's house after. 

Reece and Alayna are on Ava's club volleyball team so it was fun to watch them verse each other!

We had a pretty significant tornado come through the area! Our house had minimal damage, just some trees down and one of the trailers had some damage. But our friend Zach bought a house right in the center of where it hit. His yard was a mess!

Hannah had her first orchestra concert playing the cello! My sweet dad came to support her!

This picture is a little blurry but we had a fun Fall Retreat with the impact students!

Alex and Bretta's wedding was a lot of fun with the whole family!

And finally, the pool was finished...then we realized there was a huge leak, had to drain it, fix the leak, and re-fill it up to the pipes before we could winterize it. We did get a couple weeks of swimming in before we had to drain it again! So that was fun. We're looking forward to enjoying it next summer!