Fall Festivities

A spiderman, sleeping beauty and tiger
Where is Luke?

Our Tenacious Tiger:)


Look what I have!

Cowboy Shaw

Go Sarah! Go!

Our Indian Princess

Little Punkin'

Brothers: Spidy and Punkin?

The last week of October was full of all kinds of fall activities. Sarah's school had a fall festival where the kids dressed up as Indians, Pilgrims, Scarecrows, Cowboys or anything fall related. Sarah was determined to be an Indian girl this year (Last year she was a cowgirl:) I bought some brown felt and beads and we used our imagination to come up with an outfit. We came up with an Indian tunic/shawl/vest "thingy" and Sarah had a ball working on adding beads to it. It really turned out pretty cute.....since I have no sewing skills whatsoever, I was stuck with a pair of scissors, and I really was not sure what the end product was doing to be! I was thankful after a few "cuts" that it still looked fairly "Indian-like". The school had organized sack races, three-legged races, face painting etc.. Luke and Andrew dressed up like cowboys and everyone had a wonderful time enjoying the beautiful fall day. The Lord's creation is truly breath-taking this time of year!! What an incredibly creative Father!! Thank you, Lord, for giving us so much beauty to enjoy!

(The other pictures are from Luke and Andrew's fall festival at preschool and hanging out with our friends and their children on Halloween night)

Happy Fall everyone!

Andrew's 2nd Birthday

A few weeks ago we celebrated Andrew's 2nd birthday with a little get-together with family. The theme was "trucks, trucks and more trucks!" Andrew LOVES any kind of truck imaginable!! We had a lot of fun grilling hamburgers, playing with cousins and grandparents, eating Aunt Julie's adorable handmade truck cookies and celebrating the birthday of our youngest son. Happy Birthday, Andrew!! We love you more than you can fathom:):):)

Things Andrew is doing at two:

-loves to scribble and draw like his brother and sister

-points and names all the trucks and "choo-choo's" he sees wherever we go

-loves books......especially ones about (you got it!) trucks and trains!

-likes to dance and listen to music....always wants me to play the praise song "Holy" in the car (He sings holy, holy right on que too!)

-loves bath time....epecially splash time!

-loves food....pretty much everything but broccoli and green beans

-smiles and laughs all the time....very friendly and loves to greet people with a "hi" or "bye-bye"

-extremely independent (He walked into the first day at MMO with his own bookbag over his shoulder, ready to start the day!)

-likes to give his brother and sister (and mom and dad) a kiss and hug goodnight at bedtime almost every night

-squints his eyes really tight when we say the blessing at mealtimes....too cute!

-loves to help with dinner clean-up....grabs the mop or broom and does his best to maneuver it around the table!

-extremely ticklish especially when Daddy does the "tickle" monster game!

-loves riding his "big" wheel with his big brother and mowing the lawn (gotta train 'em early!)

-still love your pacifier (as you call it, "acy") gotta tackle that issue soon...not looking forward to it though:(

We love you big boy!! You are growing up way too fast, but what an honor it is to be your parents and have a front row seat to watch God's awesome plan for your life unfold.