23 weeks down, 17 weeks to go

Wow! The weeks just seem to be flying by. Little "skittle" continues to do flips and flops and this continues to make me smile. I go to the dr. tomorrow for a check-up and to schedule an ultra sound. I am anxious to get another sneak peak at our little skittle. We are going to be surprised about the gender of this little one.

Trevor is starting his 2nd week of school and continues to love it. He is becoming a little man so much more. We played UNO tonight and it had been awhile since we played. He now has no troubles identifying the numbers 6 and 9 and we have added the word cards in too. It is so fun to see him be competitve and see his little face light up when he wins. He does fairly well also when he looses. We are working on the whole concept of humility and saying, "good game" if we win or loose.

We are spending most of spare time riding bikes. He is now into doing tricks on his bike. It makes my heart skip a few beats when he attempts some of these. I would really like to know how his mind thinks up some of them. He is sure a brave little boy.

We started Sunday School this week and prasie be to the Lord I am not his teacher this year. He was very excited this week to have a visitor with him. Trevor has managed to sit through church most recently also and we are so thankful to be able to sit and listen through and entire service now. In a few short months this will probably not be the case. :-)

Work is going fine, always an adjustment time in the beginning for students and myself alike. :-) Today I had a little boy cutting unsucessfully for about 3 minutes before I realized I had given this left hander a right handed scissors, OOPS! Amazingly, his sucess sky rocketed when I supplied him with a left handed scissors, who would of known?

Loving this fall weather. We are looking forward to buying 3 cords of fire wood this year. We LOVE to have fires and are all looking forward to snuggling up to lots of them this fall/winter.

My bed is calling me, I hope to update with some favorite summer memories and photos!~

Family Photos

We had so much fun taking these pictures. It was quite a trick to get all 3 of us to have eyes opened and smiles present. Just think if there were more children in toe? :) Merry Christmas from our house to yours!

Fall Colors

Ya'll know the song "God of wonders beyound our galaxy, you are HOLY, HOLY HOLY! The universe declares your majesty". Photos like this require me to hold back my tears as I am utterly amazed at the beauty of creation, the changing of colors, etc.

These were taken this afternoon at the side of our neighbors house. Absolutely beautiful!

Carving Mr. Pumpkin

Can you believe the flowers, it is the end of October and they are still blooming. Love, love, love it. I planted this one the first weekend in May and it has almost been 6 months. I love the vivid orange color and it got ginormous.

After a "game" of soccer, Dad vs. Mom (Trevor assisted us both as the spirit so moved him), We all had a blast carving this pumpkin! Back to soccer a second here, I must say that my husband was a bit impressed with my "skills" or as he says, "foot work". Whatever the lingo is, I was kinda proud that he was impressed, after all Mr. Soccer himself always always always has a comment at my brother Pauls soccer games about each player, their skill level, their knowledge of the game, etc. It is really hilarious to me to listen to Dan and his friend Dave (the coach) discuss the game, players etc. Oh, I forgot to mention the score of our soccer game, 10 to 8. Yeah, Dan won, but I sure put up a good fight. Mostly, I just attempted to kick the ball as hard as I could regardless of if his foot or leg was in the way. I had him laughing more often than not, but used that quickly to my advantage and ba da bing ba da boom I would score. :-)

So you can see our finished product of carving. Well, the story gets better. We put the pumpkin on our front porch and when Trevor and I came home the next day this is what we found:

Yes, the squirrels attacked our pumpkin, it wasn't even out there for 24 hours. :-) Trevor told his Daddy when he came home that "the squirrel was so hungry, next time we get him some cereal, okay Dad?" It was worth the family fun, even it if our finished product only lasted for 22 hours or so! :-)