The first of the firsts!

Braxton

Koop and his teacher

Kooper's class room

Sutton

So fun to go to school with your best buddy!

The fun has began! This week we started school and the boys are loving it. All 3 of them go to school on Tuesday and Thursday and we are getting in the routine of in the car at 7:45 and I finish the drop offs at 9 am when B and S get to their school. Kooper's school is a good 20 minute drive but we are so grateful to get to be a part of it. Excellence is the word I would use to describe it - I am going to learn so much this year! They value the word of God and it has been so fun to get to partner with them since I get to teach him at home 3 days and they teach him on 2 days (praise God he seems to be right on track - did I mention I home-schooled all last semester and really didn't know what I was doing; was just being obedient to what God asked us to do:) Grateful that He fills every gap when we run after Him. Brax and Sutton are having tons of fun playing with their cousins and getting to be in the big kid "giant" class this year. And what a treat to get to be with all of my sweet kids 3 days a week - I am so glad God has asked us to have this season, as exhausting as it can be at times. It has been so much fun to see Koop start first grade - wow! It is so much like an "intense" discipleship relationship these days and so much fun to see amazing fruit! I was reading a book the other day and it talked about how an apple tree is an apple tree regardless of the state of the apple tree or even lack of leaves or fruit in the winter; to call it anything else would actually be a lie - we encourage you to call things as God says they are and people who God says they are - regardless of their present state - we speak the word over our kids constantly - calling out the things God has spoken over their lives - they are mighty for the Kingdom, over comers, full of self-control, possessing every fruit of the spirit and so forth.

1 Peter 2:9 You are a chosen people, a royal priesthood; He has called you out of darkness and into His wonderful light!