Life Lately

Here are a few October happenings.

Samuel has been asking to go to the "park by Braums" for awhile, so we spent a morning there last week.

When we have an evening at home without plans, after dinner we always walk to a little pond by our house.

We used to always just push the kids in the stroller, but now they all want to walk/push a shopping cart/ride a scooter or bike. So basically our walks are now four times longer

There is some rock landscaping at the entrance to the pond, and the kids call it the jungle. They climb around, explore, and Sunday night they were pretending to be tigers.

The Evetts were in town for an evening last week. We all became friends back before we had kids. Our evenings together are SO different now!

Nathan had a firetruck come to his school last week, so it's been all firefighting all the time at our house lately.

We teach the two year olds at our church two Sundays a month. This is what Matt does while the kids are eating snack. Ha!

Samuel was proud of his boat he built out of magnets. Love his creativity!

No chance of rain, but this girl needed her rain boots

We had a tailgating/team spirit theme at our last MOMS meeting, and we will wear our orange any chance we get!

And we'll also love on sweet Baby Daillee any chance we get too. Shana lives super close to us, so we are seeing her and sweet Dailee as much as we can while she's on maternity leave!

We've been playing and talking about Disney World a lot lately!

A few days ago, I took Samuel and Elisabeth to Chick Fil A to play after we took Nathan to school. Samuel went to Chick Fil A and our other errands that day dressed as Jake the Pirate

 I try to be intentional and do something fun and a little out of the ordinary with them once a week while Nathan is at school. We had a fun morning!

 Friday night, Nathan's school had a Fall carnival. The kids had so much fun playing all the little games.

 Matt and I talked about our school carnival when we were kids and how much fun we remember it being. Then I thought about it and felt thankful that we both share those same memories. I'm guessing most spouses can't talk about the same carnival they attended when they were five years old. Ha!

 Saturday afternoon, I had some helpers in the kitchen to make chocolate chip cookies for a "camp out" at our church.

 Then Samuel woke up from his nap that afternoon running a high fever. Poor guy, it hit him hard and fast. Thankfully, my mom offered to watch him that night, so we could still make it to the camp out. He loved the attention from Grammy and Papa Joe.

 So we "camped out" at our church's property for a few hours and then came home and slept in our own beds.

 At every church activity, I'm always so, so thankful for the friends my kids have made. All three of them have made sweet friendships, and I just love it. I think it's so important for them to have friends at church.

 It was just a little windy, and these three were hardly ever apart the whole night. Elisabeth talks about Ainsley and Kinley ALL the time!

 We roasted hot dogs and marshmallows, ate ice cream, played and visited and had a family devotional time. It was a really fun night. I was missing my Samuel though. It's never the same when our whole family isn't together.