Some pictures...

Okay, so I didn't exactly make it back "in a bit". Sorry, doing the best I can here. This new high speed internet is like a new toy at Chrismtas in my house and all three blessings are fighting over it all the time. Guess who gets left last on the list? Yep, mom!

So here is Brooke after winning $100 AWANA bucks for wearing the most things of her favorite color. Wonder which color that is?



Brooke really cracks me up. She can be so creative sometimes, especially when playing. Here is a picture of her taking care of "Patty" who is "sick".



Check out Patty's "IV"! LOL Hysterical.


October 3, we got to go see Jon & Kate Gosselin at the Southern Women's Show. They are both very beautiful people and so funny (well, Jon is) and kate is just an amazing mom. I did not like her much when I first heard about her. The previews for their show are not very flattering. They always seem to catch her behaving badly. But I realized what really irked me were the things about myself that I did not like. And what mom (or anyone else) doesn't behave badly once in a while? Now I just love her and her family. They have an amazing outlook on life and parenting and while we didn't get close enough to actually "meet" them like Brooke wanted to, just getting this close to them was awesome.



Here are a few pictures from our church picnic:







Whose precious baby is this? I just can't remember why I took a picture of someone else's kid...hmmm!!! Could it be....

Ella Kate!!! Roll Tide, baby!



This beautiful child is Maggie, fussing at a yellow jacket for landing near her!

Our awesome Pastor and his beautiful family,




Pictures from our last homeschool group "Park n Play":







We took a field trip to Golden Flake and that was awesome. Anytime you get a chance to visit how your food is made, I suggest you do so! I was impressed with how clean the factory seemed to be (I expected much worse) and it blows me away how much production goes into a single bag of chips. Almost seems not worth it if you ask me but like Lucky on King of the Hill says, "You ain't tasted nothin' till you've had a chip off the line." hehe







and no, the girls were NOT thrilled to be wearing those hats! But for the free chips we got to take home, it was worth it.

Afterward, we had time to kill before we could pick Dylan up from school so we went to the Birmingham Museum of Art where they are currently hosting the DaVinci exhibit. It was amazingly impressive. I enjoyed the short film about the search for the lost DaVinci and how they are using modern technology to uncover it (they believe it was painted in a room with other paintings and a later artist put a wall over it and painted a painting of his own. They don't want to disturb either painting. So they are using some high-tech microscope thingy to see what's behind it!






A few from our camping trip...which turned out to be only a hike, picnic and day at the park (long story)









Kayti's Builders Club performed a talent show for the residents of a Cook Springs retirement home. Kayti clogged. She is progressing extremely well in clogging this year.




And that's a wrap! For now, anyway. I'll post pictures of our Pumpkin Patch trip and be back later to catch up on all my thoughts and feelings later.

Blessings,