Happy Birthday Abby!!

Abby turned 5 on the 26th. She is excited to be one year older! The only thing she wished for was to have 3 hands so she could do more at once because 2 hands was not enough. She is glad it only takes two hands to ride her new bike. Anyway, happy birthday to you, Abigail! We love you very much!!!

More Fall Pics................

The kids have been enjoying Autumn. It is still not quite like going to the beach but they have enjoyed 'swimming' in the leaves. Here are some more pictures of our fun..............

It's Fall!!!

Every autumn we try to do something as a family. We have kind of made it a tradition to go to a farm or some place that has fun stuff for kids and treats and pumpkins. This year we went to a family farm where they had hayrides, petting animals, a corn maze, a playground and a little local restaurant. We planned to stay for a couple of hours but ended up there for approx. 8 hours due to the loss of a car key somewhere on the large hillside farm............... Joshua didn't realize it was gone from his pocket until we were getting ready to leave. Then he thought if he just retraced his steps he would find it. After a while I was finally able to convince him that we should just call a lock place so we could hopefully get home at a reasonable hour. Of course, the lock guy who was on call would not answer his phone and the owner of the lock place had to come to our rescue from about an hour away so we waited and waited. At least there was plenty to do and it didn't cost that much. We went on the hayride which took us to the pumpkin patch and the kids got to pick a pumpkin right off the vine. The older two went through the mazes and down the underground slide. Samuel fed and fed and fed the goats with this special pulley contraption. I'm not really sure what it was but you put the food in a little box and then wind the handle and it would take the food to the goats. Sure, you could just go over to the fence and feed them but Sam was enthralled by this thing and fed them for about an hour (maybe more). Katie and Abby played in the hay and in the sandbox and then we all ate at the restaurant. We really had a good time and the kids did really well. And in the end we got ice cream cones even though the sun had gone down and it got a little cool (the jackets were locked in the car).All total we got 7 pumpkins.........We will be canning and freezing and making a lot of pumpkin stuff...............Muffins, cookies and maybe a cheesecake or something, YUM!!!The kids all got to go on this barrel ride pulled by a lawn tractor through the corn field. They loved it!! I might have to try to build one........................
Sam played on the tire swings before he found out about the goats.............

Is That............

Yes, that is snow!!! We had the first snow of the season yesterday. However, Indian Summer is supposed to grace us next week with temps in the 60's (OOOOOOOOHHHHH!!). Then it will probably stay that way for a couple of more weeks until winter comes to stay! The kids rather enjoyed going out to play in the snow for about an hour until they got too cold and wet to stay out. It felt kind of like being on vacation but now I think the novelty has worn off and the kids are asking to go back where it is warmer. Hopefully, God will provide Joshua with a job soon so we can concentrate on settling down. But for now we are grateful for the things that keep us busy like canning homemade applesauce and vegetable soup and going outside in the snow!


Eve, Jack and Abby went out to play but Samuel wanted nothing to do with the snow. He said he wanted to go to the beach.............

Jack made a mini snowman on the railing of the porch.............Abby smashed it!They built a snowman that was kind of lopsided. After I took the picture they smashed it and came inside...........I think they were cold or something!