Last weekend was Homecoming. Our football team pulled off a win in the cold, and then on Saturday we all dressed up an went to the dance. My friend and I got ready together and then went to another classmate's house with about 15 other people for dinner and then headed off to the dance. The dance was a lot of fun and I even saw Jon there!
The swine flu and other sickenesses have been going around at both of our schools. Fortunately, Dad and I have stayed pretty healthy but Mom isn't feeling the greatest. It hasn't slowed her down too much and thankfully she is getting better.

We all are enjoying an extended weekend the next couple of days for fall break and parent-teacher conferences. Next weekend we are looking forward to Christa's fall break.

The Cross Country season is quickly ending in the next few weeks as we compete in the District and State meets. Last week we had our conference race on a very wet and muddy course. Despite the mud, however, our whole team did very well and the girls finished in 2nd place and the boys in 3rd place overall.

Today, I got my Driver's permit. I was pretty excited yet nervous to actually get my hands on the wheel. Mom took me to an empty parking lot and I just practiced driving around. It was tons better than I expected and there aren't any new scratches on the car!

Sorry it's been a while since I posted. The last month went by very quickly.

The last weekend of September was Sandi's fall break so she was able to come home for awhile. Unfortunately for her, most of Saturday, the four of us were in Kansas City because of a Cross Country Meet. We were very excited to see Peter at the meet! We hung out at his house afterwards and ate at Famous Dave's before heading back home. (Thanks Peter it was really enjoyable).

We've been able to keep in touch with Christa on Skype. She just had a concert at Mequon where all 3 of her musical groups performed and it went very well.

The weather in St. Louis has already started to get colder. This morning it was down in the 30s but eventually warmed up to about 60. We had almost nonstop rain from Wednesday night to Friday morning which caused one of our Cross Country meets to get cancelled. We miss Sandi and Christa and all of our family out of town. Hope you are all doing well!