Still catching up! Here’s some fun we had earlier this month outside.
The kids like to race cars down the slide…it’s lots of fun for them!
Josiah’s done the traditional thing in our family and started pushing off the trike going backwards.
Roll Tide, barely – again…
Just a couple of pictures of Liam enjoying throwing ball with me (Dad).
And my Ace-man.
Hey Grandmere and Papa…I just wanted to show you my signs so you won’t wonder what I’m saying when I say it. Sorry that eat and drink are the same…but you’ll figure out which one I want. Love ya…can’t wait to see you!
Josiah
Now to our regularly scheduled picture updates…here we are visiting Ge & Granddaddy and going to Granddaddy’s football game. They won and they won last night too. Their record stands at 7-0. The most a team has scored on them in one game is 10 points. Not bad, eh??
My boys love them some football. Actually, Zoe does too. She can follow it better on tv and enjoys a good game but Bama is her favorite. She’ll start asking us as soon as she gets up this morning when Bama is going to play and won’t stop until they come on (by the way it’s an afternoon game). Anyway, I couldn’t get a picture of Zoe because she would walk the aisle following the team. Here are all the boys enjoying the game though.
Josiah
Liam is the most enthusiastic of football of all the boys.
Ace likes to look for Granddaddy on the sidelines.
Playing outside!
They found roly-poly bugs (pill bugs) and were touching them and making them roll up. 
Golf anyone??
My friend from high school and her little baby. They, along with her husband, drove over an hour to visit. It was such a good time and her little one is soo cute! Thanks C & C and K for coming!
but I think this is way more important. I found a website through another blog I read. It’s about abortion. The truth about abortion. It has all the topics, arguments, anything you can think of lined up and sorted out and ready to be read if needed. All that to say that this is not a site for kids. Nor is it a site for those who just want to live in denial or ignorance. This is a site filled with cold hard true facts. You just need to be prepared to go see it.
So, we made pumpkin cupcakes this week. I have an old recipe (that isn’t healthy but is good) for pumpkin spice bars. I’ve used the same recipe and made pumpkin bread. It’s awesome! So moist and delicious. This year, I decided to try pumpkin cupcakes. I found the yummy (I know not everyone likes them) candy pumpkins to decorate with some orange, black, yellow, sprinkles. I also made homemade cream cheese icing. Can you say yum yum???!!
Here’s my little chefs in action.
In years past, we’ve used those 97 cent pumpkin trick or treat buckets from Wal-Mart. This year, I talked to Mark and we realized that five of those things floating around was going to be too much. I had the idea of getting tote bags and using an iron on and then allowing them to color them with markers. My publishing program allows me to remove color on some graphics, so I did that to three different designs. Now, all my markers are washable markers and before doing this, I tested them by writing on the inside bag and then washing it. The markers came out. The only problem is the slickness from the iron on is not really allowing the markers to dry. We’ll see. As you can tell from the pictures, we did this last week on pj day.
I know everyone is sitting on pins and needles to know exactly what we’re going to do with our transportation.
I have to just say it’s really neat how people are coming up with all kinds of solutions. Mark and I knew we wouldn’t have an average 4 member size family since before we got married. That was whether God blessed us with our own children or through adoption. We knew it wasn’t going to be average because let’s face it…we’re kind of unaverage (I don’t think that’s a word) too. Anyway, so when we got our mini van (which is really a wagon…Mazda MPV) we knew that we would have to upgrade to a 12 passenger in about five to ten years. Five years it is!!
We were able to go and actually look at the 12 passenger vans at a place in Atlanta this weekend. They had some that were actually not white. I, initially, was all for getting an older model at a cheaper price, but then I realized what that would mean. The one older model we looked at looked like it had been through the wringer. So we looked at a little newer model…2005…and we found two we liked.
Am I overly thrilled about getting a 12 passenger? I have to just say it’s not my dream car but more like what our family needs.
Am I scared about driving a big van? A little, but mainly I know I can do it since I have before (Defensive driving course when I was working as a service coordinator). I’ll have some practice parking and driving sessions before hitting the road.
So where do we stand? (Don’t you just love me asking questions at the beginning of my paragraphs?) We’re working on seeing if we can get the “sweet” deal interest rate this week. If that works out and we get all our paperwork worked out, we should get it this week or the first of next week, I think. We’ll see. The good deal on interest rates will be done at the end of October. If it’s God’s will for us to get it now. We will. If not, we’ll wait until closer to our new little one getting here.
I’ve done my part…the research and picking and finding and inspecting the “look” of the vans. Mark’s done some of his and is working on the rest this week (the logistics/paperwork/negotiating).
Right now, we’re praying for clear direction on what to do and which way to go.
Let’s see despite Josiah’s fever, we loaded everyone up and went to visit my parents and watch a great football game this weekend. We also made a pit stop to test drive some vans and I’ll write more about that later.
My dad’s team won their sixth straight win. They were up against a team and a bunch of refs who didn’t know how to follow the game. Dad said it just moved too fast for them. I think they just didn’t really care. They called a face mask on an obvious tackle. A personal foul on dad’s team when one of his lineman pushed the opposing player off our receiver who he was trying to beat into the ground. Anyway, they won 44-9. That is the second most amount of points any team has scored on them this season. The most being 10. They are doing awesome! This week should prove challenging, however, so we’ll see!!
Josiah ran a fever all weekend. It would go up to 100 then come back down. Sometimes we helped it down but mostly it came down on its’ own. He was pitiful when it went up. We believe now that it may be from teething as he’s cutting his last two eye teeth and he would start drooling when it would go up. He’s been fever free for two days now…I haven’t dared stick my finger in to see if those two teeth come in. He’ll chomp down for sure!
Okay, enough about football. On to the rest of the weekend. My mom and I were able to venture out and get Zoe a couple girly books to go with the ones that our sweet friend Holly from church gave us for her (she has all boys, so we got some mystery books). I also was able to visit with a dear friend from high school. They traveled up to visit with us at my parents’ house. It was a great visit and I got to love on her little four month old. Lots of fun!
So, that’s what’s up with us…I will post pictures…I will post pictures…I will post pictures…but when???
A cloudy day and Josiah running a low low grade fever from his MMR shot…yep, it’s a pj day!
Don’t worry all my skeptical friends. We did have school but then we settled in and watched a movie and ate pizza and worked on some trick or treat bags. That’s it! I love pj day.
Have a great day and weekend. Hopefully, I can get pictures up of the kids bags soon.