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!

Busy Weekend

We have a lot going on this weekend. Hopefully we can get it all done! This afternoon after work I need to run into town and deposit our paychecks. (Can't do anything else until we do that! ;-) Then, we need to do some grocery shopping, pick up some things for church, get some birthday presents, and be at church by 6p.m. We are having a fall fest for the kids tonight. The younger kids will stay from 6 to 8. We are going to do face painting, bobbing for apples, pumpkin painting contest, ring toss, hay ride, etc. We are serving homemade chili and/or Frito pies. The older kids are staying from 8:30 to midnight. Either Richard or I will stay to help with that and the other will take our kids home. Haven't decide yet which one of us get to be the lucky one to stay up until midnight! On Saturday, I need to get up early and go to Lufkin. I have to have my rings checked and cleaned every six months to keep the diamond bond up to date. I am meeting a friend and her family in Nacogdoches to do their family pictures at 11. There are 6 adults and 4 children. We are going to do some with every one. Some with spouses. Some with individual children. Whatever we can get everyone to do. I want Richard to go with me to see Fireproof. Everyone who has seen it says it's great and that EVERY married couple should see it. It is showing tomorrow at 1pm and 4pm. We have a birthday party to take the kids to Saturday at 6. Told you to was going to be a busy weekend! We have church Sunday. Anyone know of anything I'm supposed to do Sunday afternoon?! Ha-ha!

Dancing With Cinderella

(The picture posted small for some reason. Click on it to see it bigger.)

The girls love the song "Dancing With Cinderella" by Stephen Curtis Chapman. If you haven't heard it, you need to listen to it! It's such a sweet song. Sunday afternoon they all went and dressed themselves up and starting playing the CD in the living room and dancing to it. They were so excited when Richard came in and danced with them. It looked like Dancing With the Stars... twirling, sliding, dipping... too cute. Of course, I had to sneak my camera in there. ;-)