Trick-or-Treat

Shaelyn and Aiden with Papaw.

The back of Aiden's costume was sooo cute!!

Our little "mouse" ready to trick-or treat!

We took the kids to the Mall and to a few houses

this evening to trick-or-treat! We stopped by

Mimi and Papaw's house before we went so they

could see the kids in their costumes. Papaw was

dressed like a farmer and was all ready to had

out candy at his house. Shaelyn looked beautiful

in her 50's attire and Aiden was adorable as a

little fat mouse. He did not want to keep the hood of

the costume up however, so it was hard to tell what

he was suppose to be. We enjoyed seeing all the

different costumes at the mall and enjoyed

just being together as a family. We were thankful

Rob was off tonight! It was a fun night!

Jack-O-Lanterns

We did not get to take the kids to the pumpkin patch

this year due to some rainy weather. Instead we opted

to just buy the kids a pumpkin at the store. They were

still very excited about picking out their pumpkins.

We almost waited too late and had a hard time finding

nice pumpkins! We finally found some and then were

back home to carve them. The dining room table became the

carving station and needless to say was cleaned very

well after the event:) Rob was off tonight so he helped

Aiden with his and I helped Shae with hers. We had a

fun time! We already had a fake jack-o-lantern on

display on the front porch so we just added our two real
pumpkins for a nice trio of Halloween fun. Another fun

tradition at our house is sealed in our memories! We are

blessed!

Fall Leaves

Aiden just "chillin" in the leaves.

Shaelyn and Sophie in the leaves. Sophie is not too sure she

is in love with this idea.

Shae and Aiden keeping Mr and Mrs Scarecrow company.

Aiden in the pile of leaves. This is only a small portion of

the leaves we have:)

Aiden is "free" to enjoy the nice sunny weather!

Aiden apparently thought his clothes were too restricting!

I found them in the yard! I'm actually surprised he kept

his diaper on.

Shaelyn riding her bike through the customary "leaf road".

It was not a journey of love however. Shaelyn thinks she

is far to old and mature for this tradition.

Every autumn we are blessed with tons of leaves!

It has become somewhat of a tradition to make a day of

raking and playing in the leaves. This year was no

exception. Shaelyn pretty much thought she was too old

now for the tradition and would have much rather been in the

house on the computer. Aiden sure enjoyed himself though!

He had a blast playing in all those leaves. He must have

gotten overheated because I turned around from blowing

some leaves and discovered that he had shed his

clothes and was parading around in nothing but his

diaper. It was so funny! It was a warm day today

(almost 70 degrees) so I just let him run around

the yard without his clothes. He was nothing but smiles!

We will probably have one or two more leaf raking

days before our trees are all bear. I love the leaves

but quite honestly wish we didn't have so many:)

His Eye Is On The Sparrow!

This past week has been especially stressful, and to be honest

there were times I felt like the wind had been knocked

out of me! I am ashamed to say that I have indulged myself

in a few self pity-parties. I had one of those weeks that I

felt like God was a million miles away and really could care

less about me and my problems! Well, it took a little bird

to shake me back to reality. As we were leaving for church

this morning, Rob discovered a little sparrow that was "dying"

on our front porch. He was on his back and was jerking and

gasping for air. I swooped up this little bird and held him in

my hand. Nothing seemed broken and he wasn't bleeding so

I begin to think he had flown into our glass storm door and

had knocked the wind out of himself. I carefully placed him

on the bench in our flowerbed, rubbed his little head and told

him it would be okay. We left for church and I wondered if

he would be dead when we got back. Well, when we arrived

back home we checked on the status of the little sparrow and

he had flown away! God used that little bird to let me know

that everything would be okay. His eye is on the sparrow

and I know he watches me!

Pumpkin Painting

We took the kids to the Autumn Jubilee today

at Dan Nicholas Park. They had fun painting a

pumpkin! Thankfully the paint is washable!

We ALL got paint on us:)