Another Addition to Our Family

With a dog, chickens, quail, and the squirrels(before we gave them to Dad), I already feel like I should be singing the theme song from Green Acres! Well, now we have a new addition, Wilbur, a baby pig! Here are some pictures of the kids with Wilbur. I must admit, he is a cute little thing.

Favorite Things

Now that it's getting chilly here, we have had two of my favorite things almost every day this week: a fire in the fireplace and hot chocolate. Yummy!!! Almost time to drag out the flannel p.j.s and flannel sheets. Now the only thing that could make it better would be to wake up to snow on Christmas!

Carving Out Memories

Every year we get a pumpkin to carve. Richard and the kids clean it out, I carve it, and he makes a homemade pumpkin pie. These are some pictures from this year.































The girls all wanted Cinderella so I carved Cinderella on one side for them.












































































Then I carved a castle on the other side for Jack.

Prayer Requests

I have two huge prayer requests tonight.

1) Please pray for Wade, the nephew of our pastor's wife. He fell from the monkey bars at school today and was unconscious. They lifeflighted him to a larger hospital. He has a fractured skull, but is coherant now and talking to his family. Please pray that he will heal with no permanent effects. His grandfather was preaching an old fashioned tent crusade last night, tonight, and tomorrow night, so I think this is the devil working over time trying to prevent people from being saved.
**Update** Wade was able to leave the hospital today!!!! Praise the Lord! The dr. told them that it was a miracle that he wasn't seriously injured. Those types of head injuries usually turn out much worse. He will have to have tests to check his hearing in that ear in a few weeks.

2) This prayer request comes from my teacher's aide at school. She knows this family from camp. The mother tried for a long time to have a baby. She had seven miscarriages before being able to have a baby. The baby is now two months old. The family was in a car wreck. The dad and baby are fine, but the mother was killed.:-( It just breaks my heart! It's hard not to question God when things like this happen, but we have to trust that He has a plan.

Thank you for your prayers!

Posting Comments

I made some changes to the way comments can be posted for those of you who keep telling me you want to comment, but don't have a blogger or yahoo account. I have heard stories from others who opened their blogs up for comments and then kept getting hit with a bunch of spam comments and links to other websites, even inappropriate websites. If that starts happening, I'll change it to where I have to approve comments before they can be posted. Please post comments using your name so I know who is posting. Thanks for taking a look at our blog. It's nice to know that we are loved!