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!

Happy Halloween

Nicole and Natalie have been every princess imaginable: Cinderella, Snow White, a regular princess, etc... You would think their little sister would look up to them and try to copy them, right? I tried to talk her into being Tinkerbell because that's what we call her, but she had other plans. She said, "I want to be a PIRATE! I want a SWORD!" I must admit, she made a cute pirate!









































She even won second place in the costume contest at school! I was shocked! Usually only homemade costumes win. She was so excited!




















Nicole decided to be Supergirl this year. It makes me sad to see how much she and Natalie are growing up. They both wanted more grown up costumes this year.









































Natalie was a High School musical cheerleader. She wanted to be Batgirl, but we couldn't find the costume that she wanted.



































Jack was Spiderman last year, but he wanted to be Spiderman again this year! Will see what happens next year. Nicole was Cinderella two or three years in a row.








































I was taking a picture of the kids while we were walking to all the Halloween festivities downtown. I thought they were all so cute walking together. (Side note for my photo buddies - I got sunflare! What a great accident! I was so excited when I loaded these and saw it.)















And guess what?! We weren't even going to do the costume contest in town, but the girls decided to try it at the last minute. Lauren won "Cutest Costume"! She was so surprised!




















We all had lots of fun and got TONS of candy! Anyone want to volunteer to baby-sit four sugar filled children for the weekend?!?! Ha-ha!

Fireproof

WOW!!! What an awesome movie! If you have not gone to see this movie yet, you MUST go see it. If your spouse will go with you, even better. Whether you have been married a day or 100 years, you can learn some lessons from this movie. It's so easy to get caught up in our daily lives and spend so much time on kids, work, etc. We need to put just as much effort into our marriages as we do other areas of out lives. There are scriptures quoted in the movie and great witnessing scenes, so be sure to invite unsaved people to go see it as well. They give a website at the end of the movie, http://www.fireproofmymarriage.com/ , if you are interested in Bible study material or the Love Dare book that is featured in the movie. If you go see it, please post your comments. I'd love to hear what you think about it!