Saturday, October 31, 2009

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!

Monday, October 26, 2009

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!

Saturday, October 24, 2009

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:)

Sunday, October 04, 2009

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!

Saturday, October 03, 2009

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:)