A Picture of Charlotte and other stuff!!

Well, here it is finally...a picture of our neice Charlotte. Thanks Mom and Dad for emailing it to us. In this picture, she is only two days old. What a cutie!! We desperately want to get down and visit her, but life in the Berekoff house is very hectic right now.
September has hit and that meant waiting to find out job assignments, trying to organize for the kids going back to school and to top it all off, we are planning a major kitchen make over. Cory started Grade 2 this year and is in a wonderful Gr. 2/3 split class. He is loving every minute of it and his teacher informs me that he was very confident in his presentation of himself. She said he was in no hurry to stop talking...can you believe it?? How things have changed. He sure is becoming a very confident young man. We are very proud of him. His other passion besides school, is HOCKEY. It has started!! Watching him out on the ice, calling to teammates to pass, affirms our decision...hockey is a good thing for him!!
Rachel couldn't wait to start kindergarten. She is finally in her full day routine. She goes every Tues. and Thurs. and alternate Fridays. The gradual entry thing made her crazy...why couldn't she go every day?? She is also a very confident little girl and her only problem in school will be not talking too much!! She has also returned to the world of ballet and is extremely graceful and gorgeous in her black body suit and pink tights. She dances every Wednesday and will also start skating again next week.
The school year started out unknown for both Brian and I. I held out for a posting that I wanted, and it worked out. I have my own Grade 4 class this year at Giant's Head School. It is awesome being there with the kids. Tons of work this past week as I found out the end of the first week of school and I had to set up an entire classroom in a weekend. Things are slowly taking shape now, so I hope not to spend all my evenings there this coming week. Brian has been subbing and is hoping to get a contract in the next round of postings! ( yes they still haven't finished staffing!!)
On the home front we are updating our upstairs and putting in all new alder cupboards, a new fridge, laminate floors and hopefully some new furniture too (the stuff we have now is older than me). I hope to borrow Heidi's camera (Please!!) and post a few before and during pictures. Of course we will also post some more when we are all done. It's a big job..exciting though to think that by Christmas it will all be done!!