Popcorn creation

With Thanksgiving just around the corner we have started enjoying some thanksgiving activities here at the house. Yesterday the kids made these pilgrim hats using popcorn. It was a fun activity for them and they got to eat the leftover popcorn which they enjoyed!

Ladies Day!

Aprons- Tied With Love

This past Saturday I was blessed to be able to attend our Ladies Day. What a wonderful morning it was. Laurel Sewell spoke about our relationships with other women, our husbands, and our children. She is an excellent speaker and left us all with plenty to think about. She gave us an acrostic to help remember her main points. I'm not going to go into detail about each letter but I will share what each letter stands for. To go along with the theme she spelled out APRONS!

A- attitude of kindness (Colossians 3:12)
P- pure (James 3:17)
R-respecting and submitting to their husbands (Ephesians 5:33)
O- organized- workers at home (Proverbs 31:27)
N- nurturing, loving their husbands and their children (Ephesians 6:4b)
S- sensible, sober-minded

For Success in Relationships
1. validate One Another
2. Avoid being critical of each other
3. Do not show contempt for one another
4. Avoid being defensive. Don't bring up the past
5. Resolve conflict peacefully
6. Avoid assigning negative motives to the other person

The decorations for this year of course included aprons. I loved the tables which were decorated by different ladies of the congregation. Here are just a few of the tables we got to see. There were 21 tables and they were all lovely!

Each table was different and I know held many memories for the person who decorated it. I don't know who did these first 2 tables. I wish I would have gotten a picture of all 21 tables but I'm sad to say I didn't.




Chad's mom decorated this table.


My friend Becky decorated the coke table.


And to top off an already great morning..I won a door prize! I got to take this apron home with me!!

Halloween Fun!

This past week was full of Halloween fun! We started off the Halloween activities Tuesday night with Trick or Trunk at the church building which was hosted by our teens. Due to rain and cool temps it was moved into the activity center. We had a great time. For the first time I did a trunk (or table due to rain) and it was so much fun.

I went as a Ninja turtle (thanks to my friend Sasha who loaned me a costume) and Chad went as a Ninja!

Me, Jennifer, and Sasha

Ninja Chance

Ninja Cade

Cooper as a power ranger or Ninja or something like that!!

Our table. Kids had to throw bean bags through the pumpkins face..they loved it! Next to this Chad had a basketball goal (imagine that) set up for kids to shoot on!


Two days later we went out to Estes for their Trunk or Treat. We went with our new friends (and neighbors). The kids always have such a good time at Estes. They have lots of fun games, crafts, and food!
What a crew!

Cooper playing toss the bunny (at least I think it was a bunny)

Chance throwing Squirrel tails through a target

Cade's turn

Kids went on a high ride

Playing Halloween Bingo


We had fun making halloween snacks and crafts during the week. A few of our things included rice krispie treats that looked like candy corn, pumpkin shaped sandwiches, and candy corn and spider crafts!
Cooper working on his candy corn treat

Spider craft made from egg carton (1 section) and pipe cleaners.

Chance and his pumpkin shaped sandwich

Cade working on candy corn treats

My sleepy eyed boy heading to school with his treats to share with his class!

The boys were invited by their friends Ethan, Shaw, and Trey to a costume party on Saturday. There were about 30 kids all together and they had a blast. Thanks to their parents Jason and Casie for hosting it. They were very brave to have that many kiddos out!
Went on a hayride. This trailer was loaded!!

Thought these were cute little treats!

Chance seemed to have his moth full of something every time I went to take his picture!

Breaking the pinata!

Self Portrait

The first graders have been working on self portraits in art class at school. Here is Cade's portrait! :-)!!!!!! What do you think?!?! Looks just like him...right! Pretty good for a 6 year old I think! He's pretty proud of it.

Pumpkin Carving

The boys carved their pumpkins yesterday afternoon....finally! They've been wanting to carve pumpkins for a couple of weeks now but I made them wait because I didn't want the pumpkins rotting before Halloween! I think the adults did most of the cleaning and carving but we had a good time and the boys are very proud of their pumpkins.





The finished pumpkins!!

Fall Baseball

Yesterday was Cade's last day of fall baseball. He had a great time. The coaches were so good with the team and he made some new friends. Apart from his friend Carter who he's played on more than one baseball team with the rest of the kids were new teammates. He had only played against them and he loved getting to play with them!!

This is everyone but Ty

During almost every game the coaches had the kids swap up and play different positions. I loved that they did this. Cade got to play second and third bases, pitcher, outfielder, and even got to play catcher during one game! Of course he liked some positions better than others but it was good for him practice playing all of them. They ended the season only losing 1 game! They did very well!!

Campfire fun

Friday night we met some of the "young professionals" class out at the Chickasaw campgrounds. We roasted hotdogs and marshmallows for smores and had a great time visiting. Our friends Jason and Ashley like to go camping and were actually staying overnight at the campgrounds. Cade now says he really wants to go camping and sleep in a tent! Wonder how Jason and Ashely would feel about an overnight guest sometime..ha! I'm pretty sure Chad's not going to be sleeping in a tent anytime in the near future and I haven't been tent camping since elementary school. We don't have the first thing needed to go camping! Don't think we'll be the ones taking him!