Past, present, and future

We got quite a bit accomplished over the long weekend. Brian was able to get the yardwork done and also handled folding and putting away a lot of laundry while I did school with the kids on Monday (we didn't take the day off from schooling; it was just too soon after getting started to start taking a break).

We've also finally started getting pictures hung. I had previously gotten one room done (the front living room), but everything else has been waiting. We managed to get 3 or 4 pictures done last night. Hopefully we can do a few more tonight, but that will have to wait until after we get back from "Back to School Night" at Emily's school. It will be interesting to see what goes on, since it will be our first experience with one of these. Emily did say that we are supposed to get our Powerschool logins and passwords tonight. I'm looking forward to getting to use this system; I had friends in Omaha whose childrens' schools used this and it seems like a great way to keep track of what and how the kids are doing.

Tomorrow night we are meeting Jarrod and Lauren (our preacher and his wife) for dinner before evening classes at church. It's our last chance for six-on-two time with them before they leave for TX in a few weeks. We're going to miss them.

Then Thursday night we are having the new youth minister, Kyle, over for dinner. I think all the kids are looking forward to having him over. Halle has been talking about playing games after dinner. I wonder if Kyle likes Apples to Apples??