September Beginnings....

There is something about Septembers in our lives....due to schools starting around that time, the final holiday of the summer, the new schedules for your life--as a child in school, a young adult in college, or a mom sending kids to school, September has required looking at the calendar and making plans and arranging the schedules so that life can happen.  It is like another chance at New Year's...to start again to do better.  And it is also the countdown to the holidays--a lot to think about, a lot to do.  More memories to make, more work to do!

Labor Day---we celebrated mostly by laboring around the house and getting Jena ready to head back to her next semester at the Wonderwood College Bridge Program at BYU.  Despite her excitement about that, she took a moment early in the day to post our parkway strip flag in honor of the holiday.  Gary had posted our flag on the flag pole, but Jena didn't think that was enough.  She has grown up a lot since posting the flags as a Beehive.

We took Emily down with us so the trunk was better full.

In their apartment

Emily has a new bedspread and Jena had picked a sign for their room.  "Enjoy Life."   She already does a very good job of that.  I think that is one thing Jena does exceptionally well at--living in the moment and letting it happen as it comes.

This year, they added a new student to the program--Megan.  Here they are on their first hike of the new year at Bridal Veil Falls in Provo Canyon.

Her first week went great.  She told me that she has lots of new friends in her BYU ward and she likes her new (and old) roommates.

I hope your September beginnings started well as well......Enjoy Life.