Hello family and friends,
I'm sorry for the blogging break. I promised my wonderful mother-in-law that I would blog during her recovery from ear surgery to give her something to read :) , so here it goes!
In unison with the rest of our time in seminary, life is very busy. Sam is working his tail off to finish this last year! A full class load, an internship, volunteering with a city youth ministry, a newly installed deacon at our church, and not to mention a very valued Apple employee. All the while loving his wife (and little dog) well. He's got quite a full plate!
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| Youth night in September! |
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I am enjoying my second year teaching 1st grade at South City Community School. I have a class of 16 (11 boys, 5 girls) this year and we're off to a great start! We're finally starting to get in the groove of school, just in time for Thanksgiving break next month :) I had parent/teacher conferences last week and really enjoyed the support and encouragement from all my kiddos parents. This school has been such a blessing! I'm still volunteering with our city youth ministry, as well as leading Children's Worship at church.
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| Our enrichment trip to Tower Grove Park this month! |
This month we were very thankful to see so much family! We enjoyed having Jim and Gaye here to see Sam preach 2 weeks ago at our church. Sam rocked it! We enjoyed a delicious lunch at Pho Grand (Vietnamese) and a little visiting before they had to head back to Wheaton.
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| They also came to visit the morning Sam was installed as a deacon at our church! I didn't get any pictures from Sam's sermon morning, so this one will do :) |
We also made a trip to Wheaton last weekend! We got to see Jesse Dean light up the football field and had some great time visiting with the Dean family Thursday-Saturday. So proud of my little brother (can he still be considered little when he's bigger then me? And 17?), for these past 12 years of devoted football playing! We spent the night at Jim and Gaye's on Saturday and enjoyed spending Sunday morning going to church and lunch before heading back to STL.
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| Taken at the chilly football game last Friday night! |
As for our other 1/3rd (?), Ethel gets cuter everyday.
Thankful for this beautiful fall weather!
Until next time,
Sam and Katelyn
