THE GRINSTEAD FAMILY

HALFWAY THROUGH OCTOBER!

Where has the time gone? It's already half way through October. Fall will be over & the snow will be falling before we know what hit us. Here's the recap of the last 2 months:

Jake has had football practice 4 nights a week. He loves football this year and went from insisting that he would run cross country next year in Jr. High to he's playing football next year. We don't care what he does as long as he wants to do it!

We've attended every home Cedar Falls Tigers football game this year. Our CF Tigers are undefeated and so much fun to watch in the warm UNI Dome! I love that our high school team plays indoor football.

I started a new job at school. I no longer work one on one with a student, instead I assist the grade 4 special ed teacher. I teach small groups math, writing and reading. I have 14 kids on my roster plus a couple others that I help when I have time. I love the new challenge.

Allie had 2 doctor appointments for the planter's wart on her foot. The stubborn things has gone away...for now...

Jacob has had 5 football games. They have won 2 games and lost 3. Jake is having an amazing season. He scored a TD, has rushed for some yards, had several tackles and even a big QB sack. He has 1 last game to go.

Allie had her birthday party at the UNI pool. She invited every girl in the 4th grade. She had a great turn out & enjoyed the day.

I'm the Treasurer for my local work union. I attended a meeting and enjoyed meeting some new people and seeing some co-workers from other buildings as well.

My parents celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary. Love them!

The kids and I saw "Blue Man Group". What a great show. We would all go see it again without having to think twice about it.

Allie went to her friend's Gunnar, Riley and Austin's birthday parties. All of them had pool parties on different days.

We bought a keyboard for Allie to start taking piano lessons on. She takes them once a week at the UNI School of Music.

I attended 2 PTA meetings and 1 Room Parent Meeting. I am helping to co-chair Spirit Sales, our annual school apparel sale.

The kids started WOW (Worship on Wednesday) and JUMP 56 (Jesus Use Me Please 5th & 6th grade) at a different church this year. Both are really enjoying the programs and look forward to going each week. I even caught Jake reading his Bible the other morning! I asked why & he said that at JUMP, they say Bible verses and he thinks that they might be some pretty important words so he wanted to see more. WOW!

My friend ran for the CF school board and won. Yay Jenny!

UNI Children's Choir started back up for Allie. Once again she loves it!

Mandy & the kids came for a visit and to see Jake play football. The kids had so much fun playing together. I love my family.

We went to 2 UNI home football games and tailgated with friends. I love, love, love UNI football and would love season tickets next year. We'll see!

We got our family pictures taken. I'll post my favorites from that session later.

Jake went on a field trip to the wetlands and another field trip to an air show.

Jake and his friend ran the Pink Ribbon 5k. He stuck by his friend, who was running his first 5k, and got a time of a little over 25 minutes. He wasn't thrilled with his time since he thinks he could have run at a faster pace. He got 4th in his age group.

Allie spent the night at her friend Sky's house and Jake spent the night at Paul's after the annual Hansen carnival. Scott and I went out for appetizers and drinks alone for once!

Jake had safety patrol for a week. A parent stopped me to tell me that he is very kind to her 2nd grader and always tells the kids have a great day when they cross. He's such a kind kid.

Allie and I got our hair cut by my friend Sheryl, who just went back to cutting hair. I love the new color & cut that I got.

Tiger basketball practice has started. Teams will be formed in the next few weeks.

I started a night class learning sign language. I'm pretty excited to learn how to speak to one of our kiddos who has limited speech.

I went to the UNI craft show with friends and then took our daughters to see Footloose. What an awesome day.

I went to DeWitt to see my niece Maddie play soccer. We spent the afternoon with all of my nieces and nephews. Jake wrestled non stop with the boys and Allie entertained the girls. We had a great day trip with my family. I sure miss them.

Coming up! Michael, Kim & the kids visit, Jake plays his last football game, Brownies starts for Allie, Jake is attending a Lock In at church, piano, basketball, football, baseball clinics, UNICC, night class, WOW/JUMP 56 and much, much more.