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It is officially Fall when the hay bales appear again!

A bunch of materials (and port-a-potty! hehe!) were delivered yesterday. The yard is full of stuff now. They have the whole roof off now and are working on putting in the big beam (it has a name, but I’m forgetting what it is) across the top of the garage to help support the weight.

A lot happened today!

Tim took the coolest video with his drone, but I don’t want to link it from Facebook to here… so you’ll just have to scoot over there to his page to see it. I love how it adds music to the video to make it seem almost like a commercial!

Ok, it wasn’t as exciting as the roof being taken off the garage (which we all hoped would happen today) but the siding came off. And progress is progress!

This past week was Homecoming week here, so we had some fun themed days. One of those days was wacky hair day!

Chloe made it into Saber Singers at her school! Whoo hoo! It’s a select choir that meets before school and she’s super excited.

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Today is a day we’ve been anxiously waiting for in the Friesen household. This was the day we told the kids (months and months ago!) that we would start on our addition to our house! Whoo hoo!

Every time we would talk about the house addition (adding the two bedrooms over the garage so every kid can have their own room) the kids would ask, “when does it start?” and the answer was always, “October.”

Now, as adults we know that saying that work starts in October could mean it starts on October 1st or October 31st or anywhere in between. But to kids if we said the work starts in October it meant that it starts on the very first day of October. So, the count was on all year to this date.

And we made it!

(Note: As a bit of a let down, technically no work was done today. The electrician was out a week and a half ago to move and add onto the box to the house, so that’s when things started and then stopped. They are coming on Monday to really start. I think that’s when the roof will come off of the garage! Exciting!)

Whoa.

Goodbye, June. Hello, July!

The kids didn’t get out of school until June 10th, so by the time we hit “summer” here it was already mid June, so it makes sense to me that June felt like it really whizzed by. We filled it with all sorts of things (trying to jam as much fun as possible this year!)

So, what did we do in June, you ask?

• Played in our friend’s pool
• Celebrated Maddie’s 6th Birthday!
• Trip to the beach with Auntie Jen
• Abby’s Graduation party
• Dentist cleanings for all kids (which was actually a highlight for M & L)
• Well-child visit for Maddie
• Celebrated Chloe and Josiah getting baptized!
• Watched the Baker kids perform with their marching band (so cool!)
• Kids went to Valleyfair with Tim
• Summer Bible study for me with my friends (the kids to play with their friends though too, so everyone is having fun)
• Women’s Bible study (I’m leading this one at the church)
• More graduation parties for my students
• Went to the nearby farmers market to support our friends who just opened a plant business. I should see if I can post a link…
• And loooooooots of playing outside and in the sprinkler.

All in all, a pretty good start to our summer. Here’s to more fun in July! We’re just a day away from Nana & Bumpa visiting, so we are pumped about that. Eeeks!

Yup–it’s that time of year again! We love our photo thank you cards. It gives us a chance to be silly and showcase all the different faces our kids like to make. Ha!

This is the first year that Chloe isn’t going to do one. Now that she’s in Junior High she just has too many teachers. And we also didn’t do one for Levi either since he didn’t have any BSF teachers (since we were online)… so we just have Maddie and Josiah this year!

Maddie keeps loosing more and more teeth. She now has 3 gone in the front. I love her little toothless smile.