Harvest Festival

Our church's Harvest festival

On Friday night our church held a harvest festival. It has been several years since they had one and were expecting maybe 500 people in attendance. At last count we had over 1500 people! It was amazing! The kids all had a blast and we are looking forward to doing it again next year!

Ashtyn is 8!

Ashtyn had her first slumber party with 8 little girls spending the night! I think they all had a good time. We had friends from church, some friends from our school last year and a neighbor. God was definitley present. All the girls got along so well with each other!







Here is Ashtyn trying out her new purple scooter.

Dinner with the family at the Purple Cow.

Part of the family

Ashtyn, Bryce and Eisley with the purple cows

eisley's new do

school days: some things we've been up to

we made sneaky snakes like the one that tempted Eve in the Garden of Eden

the boys making craters in their salt models of mercury

before all this rain started, we had a few really nice fall-like days. we decided to enjoy one of them by having a nature walk. the kids had fun making a collage with their findings.

Josiah's

Ashtyn's

Isaiah's

"What are you doing?"

There really is never a dull day at our house. There is always something going on and you never know what is going to happen. Although we can usually count on Eisley to make us all laugh. I am terrible at remembering to get the camera out but this day I used it twice (in the same day!) to document the funny things Eisley does. Here I found her licking her babydoll's mouth! Why on earth would she do this?

Because today I gave her gummy fruit snacks for the very first time and they are just the perfect size to cram in a babydoll's mouth. She really wanted it back!

I also caught her playing in the dogs' food. This is actually nothing new. Even though I repeatedly tell her "no, no" it really makes no difference!

Here she is posing for a picture, with no intention to stop anytime soon!

i just wanted to share what a wonderful morning we had. I actually spent some time praying about our day and took extra time to make a schedule and plan out the day, and wow what a difference it made! imagine that! we actually finished ahead of schedule. this is what our early morning looked like...

ashtyn and josiah busy at work



isaiah, happily playing with hot wheels and waiting for his math lesson.



eisley slept a little bit later this morning!