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Kenya, Elijah and Charity went to the Post Office for a feildtrip today. It was lots of fun and they learned lots. They went with 6 other homeschool families, so it was a lot of kids, but it seems they all enjoyed it. They got to take a letter and go up and buy their stamp, then put the letter in the Big Blue mail box. They got to go back and see where all of the mail goes after you send it out and how they post office has ways to make sure they are doing their job right, it was pretty high tech.!

We were supposed to have a group of people from the Bible College in Seattle come down and do a week long Campus evangelism for us, but it looks like they will have to postpone until April. Which is OK because we would have had the Harvest Party right after they left and it would be a lot, for the next couple of weeks. We are excited for them to come in April, when we can spend a little more time focusing on having fun with them.

It was Charity's Birthday on the 14th, so we took a little date night to Yakima. It's amazing when you are short on time and money, how fun just doing the simple things can be. We went shopping for church stuff and used her Birthday coupons to get coffee and just drive around talking. I know it may sound lame to you, but we really love just hanging out together, especially now that our time together is few and far between.

Kenya and Elijah and Dad have been getting some good wrestle time in and some how Kenya managed to get eaten, as she often does.

She plays the Damsel in Distress roll very well. Mom usually has to come in and rescue her multiple times. It is getting to the point where we think she may actually get into distress on purpose. Oh well, I guess there's nothing like burning calories as a family.

We hope you are all having a great fall season and praying you feel the Lord loving and blessing you to the max.

First winter rain

We had our first winter rain today, the kids were hoping it would be cold enough to do snow, but no such luck. It sure does feel cold enough though. We are really burning through the wood in our fireplace as we just found out our furnace is shot and will require a whole different set of building codes to put a new one in. Should be interesting. It's a good thing the Lord provides us with wonderful people who just drop wood off at our house.

Chruch is going great. We had ten people at our first prayer hour on sunday night. The prayer time was wonderful and we are being blessed by the weekly bible studies. We are also gearing up for our Harvest party on Oct 31th and some of the guys from the Bible College in Seattle are coming for a week to pass out flyers around town, help with a concert for the college age kids and spread some general excitement around.

We are also really enjoy spending some relaxing time together as the bad weather sets in. Elijah is really enjoying it. I sent him to his room for a time out and he thought he would through me for a loop when I came in to see him. I guess he didn't plan on falling asleep.

I guess we could have rented out his room and just moved his closet into Kenya's room for him to stay in.

We'll keep you posted on the upcoming events, I am sure the Lord will be faithful as he always is.

Home Again Home Again Jigidy Jig!

Charity got home yesterday from the Pastors Wives conference in Califonia, it was a wonderful get away and she was very blessed. But a wonderful blessing to be home again also. Grandpa completed Tadd's whole honey do list, plus chopped wood for the fireplace and stacked it nicely.

He's definatly is a keeper. I'm not sure what was more refreshing, taking 3 days at a retreat or coming home to find the whole honey do list completed. Thanks Grandpa. Then Grandma suprised Charity at dinner with a B-day cake and cards. Kenya and Elijah were so excited to be in on a secret that mommy was not in on.

While Grandma and Grandpa were here they let Kenya and Elijah use their camera to take pictures around the house and outdoors, so they could show the cousins when they got back to Lynden. Then we gave then our camera just to even the sharing time out a bit and as you can see they went to town.

As you can see they had lots of fun.

Calvary Ellensburg started the first midweek bible study this week and it went great. The men's bible study started up this week also and woman's starts next week. Exciting stuff and so happy to have a little more fellowship time. We are having our Harvest Party on Oct. 31 and inviting the community so you can pray for people to come and hear the gospel shared and also for the sugar high the parent s will have to endure afterwards. Thanks for all of your prayers we sure do feel them and are looking forward to what the Lord will do because of them. God Bless!

A whole new way to do fall

Fall has definantly hit here in Ellensburg, apparently it is not a gradual thing. One day it was 70 something and the next day we were scrounging for firewood. It has been fun to sit by the fire and pretend we have nothing to do for the rest of the day. Next week we start all of our fall Programs at Chruch, Woman's and Men's Bible studies, Midweek Study and getting ready for our Harvest Party on October 31st.

Tadd and Charity got very blessed to get away for a day and attend the Northwest Pastor's Conference in Warm Beach (which is not really warm and technically not a beach) but it was so great to be blessed by the 4 speakers we listened to and have some great worship time. Not to mention some time together without the kids even though we love them immensly.

Charity has been blessed by some friends, to go to the Pastor's wifes conference in California next week. She leaves on Sunday and comes back Wednesday night. Tadd's Parents are coming down to stay while she is gone and Kenya and Elijah are so excited to get up early and play "WAR"(a card game) with Grandma.

We are so excited to start getting into Bible Studies again and have some time to fellowship and spend with the people we love. Kenya and Elijah are loving all the play dates,

Also, getting back into school with the kids, where some days we just hang out in out pj's and read books by the fire. This is one of the major reasons we homeschool. Call us lazy, but I call it tons of fun.

It looks like Annecy & Isaiah may not be home until after the Holidays, as the signature we have been waiting on has not come yet and it has been delayed long enough that all the other ones may not come in time to have them home for Christmas. It's a good thing the Lord knows all and does whatever is best for us and our kids or it might be a liitle more discouraging.

God is so good to us and is so faithful we are so excited to see his provision, grace, purposes and plan for the next couple of months.