February 2020

High school friends reunion

Baby Fonte 20 weeks

Fish #3- Bubbles

Harley- the constipated lizard

Caleb, Jacob and Ashton at Bittersweet

Skiing at Cannonsburg

Just another day at Forest School 

-Nate and I saw Hamilton and it was fantastic. I went home, bought the album and began listening non-stop.
-Isaac went on a middle school retreat- little sleep, lots of sugar, challenged in his faith, and lots of fun with friends.
-I went to Baltimore for a couple days. Robin, Heather and I stayed at Deb's house. Deb has two young kids so we spent most of our time at her house, but we had no problem finding stuff to talk about for 2 days! We hadn't seen each other in probably 3-5 years so this was a fun reunion. 
-Nate, Caleb and Isaac went to a Calvin v Hope basketball game at Hope stadium. Caleb said 75% of the crowd was over the age of 65- ha!
-I made a quick trip to Dayton to go with Steph to her 20 week ultrasound. Ben was on assignment out of state and couldn't be there, so I got to go along! They don't want to know the sex of the baby, that will be a fun surprise! Baby is growing well and due July 4- they call the baby Freedom Fonte.
-Our family went skiing at Cannonsburg for a day. Julia does not enjoy skiing and was happy to spend the day with Grandma Jongsma.  Lexi and Stephen were especially excited to ski- Lexi has been talking about it since we took her last year. At night she would pray, "Thank you God for skiing, please let us go skiing again."  It was a cold day to ski, thankfully we had hand and feet warmers. The older boys went off on their own. Stephen and Lexi moved off the bunny hill fairly quickly. Stephen's strategy is to point his skis down the hill and go fast. Lexi did best skiing with Nate as she needed help getting on/off the chairlift.  Overall a fun day!
-We bought Stephen another betta fish as the first two died. Everyone says betta are so hardy, I don't know why ours died. We are hoping 3rd times a charm- so far Bubbles seems like a winner.
-Harley the lizard didn't poop for weeks so we brought her to the vet and found out she is a he. Thankfully Isaac had chosen a gender neutral name- ha! And I am annoyed that I was worrying about a lizard's bodily functions.
-Caleb went on a high school retreat- little sleep, lots of sugar, challenged in his faith and lots of fun with friends.
-We have an Chinese high school age adoptee, Aliah, spending with with Lexi once a week at our house. Lexi enjoys hanging out with someone that looks similar to her and has similar experiences.