Harvest Party

We had our Harvest Party on Saturday night and we managed to get all the kids sugared up, sleep deprived and spoiled, then sent them home to bed. You would think it would all even out, since we got an extra hour of sleep on Saturday with day light savings. Someone forgot to tell the kids internal clock that. These are the days that teaching sunday school really needs some prayer time. Here is a picture of some of the kids that could stand still long enough to get their picture taken.


This is random activities we had and some pretty cute kids along with it.


We had lots of fun!

We finally got out furnace fixed and now we are really missing sitting by the fire. There is just something about putting the kids to bed and sitting by the fire to wind down. I guess we are never quite content. We are very happy to be warm though and having it happen one of two ways works great. Especially since last friday the power was out for 9 hours and we were supposed to have some of the women over for a biblestudy in the morning. That is when a fireplace comes in really handy. We were toasty warm with coffee made from a french press with hot water from on top of the fireplace. As long as you have heat and coffee what else do you really need.

Kenya and Elijah started Gymnastics again today and had the first day of their "Book worm club" at the library. They really enjoyed both and then we got to top it all off with a date night with mom. Since Tadd has men's biblestudy is at our house every other tuesday night, mom and the kids get to be creative and think of cheap fun things to do for 2 hours. Last time we took the down comforter to the park with lots of pillows and watched a movie on the computer while we ate fiddle faddle. This week we took board games to the ice cream shop and had ice cream and played 4 different games for 2 hours. It is really fun and we all really enjoy getting out and spending time together.

We are headed up to Bellingham next week for Tadd's brothers wedding and are looking forward to spending some family time. Charity has an appointment with the lawyer that is dealing with the CPS case and should know more about what we can expect for the actual trial in January, when she gets back. Well keep you posted whether you want us to or not. God bless ya!