Fall Schedule

Fall seems to be here earlier than the calendar says it is. Fall sports have finally started so we are getting our schedule down. Dakotah has had 2 soccer practices under his belt and Colby has had 1 football practice under his. Colby has seemed to hurt his hand while playing with a team mate after practice on Thursday. We are icing it and wrapping it. If it doesn't get better by Tuesday, we will be going in to see what's up.
House hunting or should I say house offering is in a interesting spot at the moment. We put in an offer on a house in Lafontaine on Thursday and someone put in an offer after us that is extreamly similar to ours, so now we have to go in on Tuesday and make the best offer we feel we can make and they are going to write up a dual offer sheet and present it to the sellers. After that, we wait to see which one they pick. Prayers are still greatly needed and appreciated! I told myself I wouldn't get emotionally attached, I was fooling myself!
Pioneer Club starts on the 22nd in our kick off celebration. This year is somewhat going to be different so it will be interesting to see how things go. I will be teacher assistant of the scooters which is the pre-k and k group. Madi gets to start club this year and she is so very excited about this.
I am excited for fall and will be making it a point to stop from my busy schedule to enjoy the smells, colors and tastes it brings with it.

Hold on to your hats, we have a TEENAGER!

Lastnight we celebrated (4 days early) Bre's birthday. I think we have enough cupcakes to last us the entire holiday weekend! The cup cakes are a ton of colors to reflect the things we got her for her bedroom, for presents.


Big birthday girl!
She even snag to herself.
After cupcakes, she opened presents and then her and I headed up to her room to decorate. She got new sheer curtain panels, comforter and duvet, sheets, throw pillow, side table, storage cubes, laundry hamper, lava lamp, decorative peg board and posters. Her room looks so cute and fun. Oh I almost forgot, she also got a new hairy purple area rug. Here's a few pictures.....

Hillbilly Heaven....

My hillbilly kids, aren't they so stinkin cute!
My hillbilly husband, I actually thought he looked cute too. :)

Last Sunday our church had their anual Fall Festival and the theme was Hillbilly Heaven. We all dressed up in our hillbilly sunday finest and headed to church. After our service, we headed outside for lots of good food, fellowship and fun. Our family tied for first place for best hillbilly family, Autumn wond first for best hillbilly girl and Rodney and I came in 3rd in the egg toss (the egg broke on me even though I was praying the whole time that it would break on Rodney). Dakotah and his patener came in first in the wheel barrow race. We had such a great time and I love that my kids don't hesitate to dress up no matter how funny we may look.

What we do while they are away....

The first couple weeks after school started Madi eased into enjoying the idea of having the house pretty much to her self. One day while I was bopping around the house doing my chores, I walked into the living room to find this....


Ah yes, the joys of having the house to your self! Last week though we started preschool time every day and that has been a joy. It's short, about 30 minutes and then she is off to rule the roost so to speak.

Birthday Kick Off......

Right after school starts a journey of many celebrations start in our household. We kick this journey off every year with Rodney's birthday. We surprised him with a cookies and cream ice cream cake and presents he didn't think were going to be at our house for another week.
Good thing the smoke alarm didn't go off. Whew, you know your getting older when your cake can light up the room! :)
Look at all that candle smoke, wow. At least his lungs work good!

Even when your 32 sometimes you can't resist acting like a goof for the camera and we wonder where the kids get it from.
Now there is the picture I was looking for! Look at that sweet 32 year old. I love that man!!!
Baby, I pray 32 is a blessed year for you with many new adventures in our grasps handed to us by God. I'm thankful God has blessed me to have you for my husband. I love you very much!!

Kindergarten

Ok, so I realize school started 3 weeks ago and wow I am that far behind, but let's go into catch up mode, shall we?!
We have managed to send yet another off to kindergarten and I have to say, she hasn't looked back since she stepped in the door.
This is the day before school started, at open house. We went to check out the room, fill out an info paper, drop off school supplies, read a book and of coarse, mom signed up for goodies.
First day of school outfit. Very cute!
I took her to her class and off she went. I didn't even get a "good bye" She just was off and running. Here's to another one off. I told Madi that she is never going to school and is stuck with staying home with me forever. She seems to think other wise and has no problem vocalizing it....loudly!

House Hunting

Ok, so seriously I think I would rather be out hunting buffalo or something. I would have put deer, but I actually do want to be out hunting deer. We have started our journey of looking at houses and have now seen 6, had my heart broke on one and are now looking at a new possibility. We are seeking God's direction on this journey so much and boy do we need it! We thought originally it would be Huntington which isn't too far away so we can still see friends and depending on which side of town, still go to our church. Now we aren't ruling out the surrounding area to where we are now. This is where some of my confusion of which direction to go, comes in. I want to be able to provide the ability for my husband not to have to drive so far to work everyday while on the other hand not take my kids from their school or our family from our church. What a HUGE decision! Rodney has decided that staying in our church is more valuable to him than being closer to work. The last house we looked at is in LaFontaine and had a family with four kids in it. It's a nice lot, nice yard, good size and just needs some love and personal touches. It has great potential for so many ideas that we have (mainly me) in store for the future (bring on the covered porch baby!).
Needless to say but I'm gonna, we still need so many prayers. Buying a home seems sooo big, but God is bigger and I continue to tell myself that every day and every house.
Heavenly Father, I come to you and ask that you direct my family and I to that perfect house You have picked just for us! I pray it is a size that our family fits in comfortably. I pray it has 3 to 4 bedrooms, 2 to 2.5 bathrooms, a nice size yard with room for fruit trees, kids, a dog and a garden. I pray it is in a country setting even if it is in a neighborhood. I pray that if our kids have to change school that you would give them the strength and courage to do so. I pray you will have wonderful new friends waiting on them, to embrace them and love them as much as the friends they have now. Ultimately I pray we are able to stay in our area of school and church. Lord none of this is bigger than You and we acknowledge that Your plan is what we want over ours no matter what that may involve. We just pray that You would make it ever so clear to us that we are on the right path. Open doors You would have us go through and close the ones You don't want us to even stick a foot in. You are Almighty! I pray for peace, comfort and patients through out the whole process. I thank you in advance for the house You have waiting just for us and for the journey we have been put on for the process. I praise You and love You! In Jesus' Name I pray, Amen!