enjoying the season

 

 As soon as Josiah began to notice other's fall decorations, he insisted it was time to carve pumpkins.

 

 

 Rachel is never far behind.  She still loves all this stuff! You notice one child is absent, who thinks he's too old.

 

 

Getting ready for the mother/daughter tea at our church.  Rachel is growing as fast as she can...and wearing some of my shoes.  We had a great evening together painting pumpkins, but she did NOT appreciate the princess theme (not so much an age thing as a Rachel thing), though the speaker did such a neat tie-in about how each girl who trusts in Christ is a daughter of the King.  She loves T and T but can't wait until she is in the Jr. High group next year.



 

The kitten playing the ipad.  We got it just for her, you know.  She also likes to play the piano, especially in the middle of the night.  We call her our midnight Mozart.

 

After Eric's surgery we were homebound for about a week.  The day he went back to work was 70 degrees, probably for the last time this year.  We escaped to Sugar Grove for the afternoon.  Micah was hoping to have it to ourselves, but as you can see, it is pretty popular with the homeschool crowd!  And yes, he gets comments on his cowboy hat.  And no, he doesn't mind.

Kids and a creek.  They just go together!

 

 

If you can find an orange speck in the water, it's Micah's morphibian, a jeep that works in and out of the water.  Sooo much fun to play with here!

 

This gang sticks together!!  I really loved watching them come up with ideas and look out for each other.

 

They two say they have to stick together, being the two middle school kids in the house.  I can barely keep them in clothes that fit right now, and am almost looking Micah in the eye.  Scary!!

 

We've all done this one, right?  Well, he hasn't...until now.  Do you see the look of amazement on his face?  It is so much fun to teach him!  The world is such a place of wonder and discovery.

 

We had a really low key Halloween party and the youngers loved painting.

 

 

And painting...

 

And painting!

 

A couple of years ago Grandma Netta and Grandpa Chuck gave us these monster puppets with felt features.  I had forgotten all about them until Rachel pulled them our for our party. It provided giggles for a half an hour.  Too bad I can't capture those sounds in these pictures!