Times and Seasons

The weather is hot, hot, hot, but I know fall is on the way. I can tell by the back to school stuff on the shelves in the stores and the routines we're trying to get back into.

Summer has been absolutely wonderful! I have loved everything from all the sweet visits of our family to the cleaning and organizing projects around the house! What a great time of year! I love summer... and the snow days of winter (I guess I'm a kid at heart), but there are good things about each season. And with fall, I suppose it will be good to get back into the routine of school days and soccer and look forward to the pretty colors of fall and the visits and fun things we'll be doing. Just a little hard to say goodbye to this summer.

In the news... I guess we're all doing fine around the Jarrell household, except for the coughs - boy will I ever be glad to quit coughing! Uncle Roger and Aunt Nancy were here for a visit recently and we enjoyed getting to see them. We all ate Sunday dinner at Mama's after church, which was nice. I'm getting settled in at work, but it's challenging to get everything done for home and family, housework, etc. with being gone several hours each day for work. I do love being home. Adrian stays busy with work and things around the house, most recently working on getting power and water to our outside building and the chickens; and he has just been called as YM president, which is a big calling with all the youth activities and scouting, but it will be nice for him to be in the program with Logan.

Family Update... Kristen and Cory and family are getting settled into their new house. They're doing well and the grandchildren are cute as ever! Ethan's doing great at his job at Logoworks and is getting ready for classes to begin soon. He has been running a lot lately, about 12-14 miles most days, but needs to slow down a little (the mom talking) as he's been really sick with a fever and sore throat. Adam should have his mission call in a couple of weeks and we're excited for him. Logan has started practicing soccer and starts back to school and early morning seminary on Aug. 27. It's been a full summer... Adam and Logan have enjoyed spending time together this summer and have been helpful with all my summer projects! Right now they're getting ready to go to guitar lessons which they take together. Logan is also taking drum lessons. It's sure been fun to hear them playing around the house.

Well, that's the recap...