From the desk of Brooke Metten…

Just wanted to let you all know we had a wonderful summer…we managed to vacation with both sides of the family which were a blast!!  Emma turned 3 at the beginning of the summer, Kylah is continuing to love ice skating, and now they both are in gymnastics which they both totally LOVE!!  Alexa has figured out how to crawl, she does the spider crawl, and is getting faster everyday…she now pulls herself up and stands, and takes small steps, all in her harness….we are all expecting her to start walking in it any day now…Emma is in her 2nd year of Preschool and doing great, and we ventured into Homeschooling Kylah this year for Kindergarten…we all LOVE it!  There is a huge Homeschooling Community in our little city of Poway like 240 families, which helps so much since we are such a social family…she gets to do PE once a  week with other kids her age, and enjoys a Co-op K-1 class once a week too…we get to do field trips, and playdates as well…We are staying very busy, but having fun!!  Also, we have been able to visit many wonderful church services and have had many amazing worship times outside all over beautiful San Diego…they have all be very inspiring to our faith…Thanks to facebook we have now reconnected with sooooo many friends from our childhood, High School, and College… our world keeps getting smaller and smaller with all these new ways of connecting to people.  It’s a cool way to stay up with people…Anyway, we hope you all had a wonderful summer and are ready to enjoy a wonderful holiday season.  We love you all very much!  You can see all the pics from the summer here!