Ok, it has been a few days since I sat down to update my blog for interested readers. The kids are excited as the Awana program at church kicked off last night. It's great to see the kids so interested in going a being a part of the program and learning about God and being a Christian. Taunya has become a very busy pre-teen. She is part of the school district's children's choir, is a crossing guide/bus aid, is a student ambassador for the school, continues to learn the violin, and next week will be starting rehearsals for the church's Christmas musical. I'm having a hard time keeping up mentally; it's all I can do somedays to get myself going in the morning...ahh, to be young again with that kind of energy. Best I be getting back to work, drop us a line. God bless you and you're on our prayer list.

A new morning and new day. I've taken to riding my bike to school as often as possible. I have only driven my car once to school since students started and that was because it was raining. As some of you might know we have been renovating our house over the past year. It started with a simple, "You know, we should replace the carpet in Tyler's room because of the flooding caused by a running and overflowing...sink." Since then we have removed all the carpeting in our house, repainted all the downstairs, bedrooms, and upstairs bathroom (finished last weekend). I have finally finished re-doing the stairs and will start on the new railings this weekend. I'll post pictures sometime this week of the changes we've made. Besides the railings, we're going to be removing the wallpaper from our dining room. The kids are excited because we're letting them help with the removal. Talk to you soon. All of you are in our prayers.

Ok. I've joined the 21st century and added a personal blog to my daily routine. I've seen how useful it can be and it is a way to keep people we know and love in the loop of our lives on a fairly regular basis. Since I'm not one to write letters to anyone and call family and friends on a highly irregular basis - keeping an online blog seems like a great third alternative. I already keep one for my students - I'm a junior high English teacher- I might as well keep one for my friends and family. I'll keep this first entry pretty short. I probably won't be the only one posting to this blog. From time to time I'll turn over the writing to my wife and kids. I know one of my kids will love the idea of letting everyone know what has been happeing around the Walther household.