Flashback a year

Wow how much diference a year makes! Here is our little ladybug one year ago! 

Look at how little hair we had!

 Some things never change (will she go to school still sucking these fingers???):

Happy Halloween 2009!

Fruits of the Spirit

Galatians 5:22-23

"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law."

I used this verse for inspiration with our latest craft! These are all characteristics that I hope to possess as well as teach my children the importance of each.  I thought it was the perfect time to start talking about all of them! We incorporated this into our Fall apple crafts.

We started by painting apples:

First Mollye insisted on using the correct colors: red and green.

This quickly changed to pink and purple- every girl's favorites!

She loved the way that I painted the entire apple pink so she was determined to paint her "big apple all purple!" She did! I was so proud! I think one day she might have a decent artistic ability- something her mommy does not have.

Then we took the apples and wrote the Fruits of the Spirit on each. 

We strung them together for a finished banner.  This now resides above our kitchen sink.  Mollye and I both enjoy looking at her hard work! Plus it is a nice reminder to me of the qualities I want to demonstrate to my child, husband, school children, and everyone else I encounter.

I just love October!

Saturday Mollye and I headed to a pumpkin patch in Taft, TN. At first, I was a little weary of the long drive, but I will now tell everyone it was so worth it! We had so much fun! Mollye was a little angel in the car.  She is so fun to ride with now as she entertains herself with singing- usually Mary Had a Little Lamb! I just love her sweet voice! I hope it stays that way. I dread the day that she is asking for the dvd and video games to make it through car rides. 

Anyways, back to our fun trip! We enjoyed it all- bounce houses, big bounce slides, 20ft slide that my child had no fear of going down, playing trucks in the corn, petting zoo, corn maze, cow train ride, and of course picking our own pumpkin! She picked just the right pumpkin, but then as we were leaving demanded a little one like her.  We stopped in and bought a 75 cent pumpkin:) I was not able to get that great of shots due to it just being her and I, but here are some that will show you the fabulous time we had!

Yes, there was an outfit change during the day! Mommy may have forgot to watch the weather! Who knew it was going to be 90 degrees! ooops... atleast I had something in the car!

Happy October!

Way to go Uncle Brad!

What a busy but fun weekend!

Uncle Brad came in to run the Plunge Half Marathon. It was fun to be able to see him throughout the course as well as the finsih line! Mollye did great watching him as well.  The only problem we had was at the first stop.  She wasn't quite sure why Uncle Brad did not stop and stay with her.  She quickly forgot all about it when we made our way to bounce houses and popcorn!!! Here are some pictures of the race:

We are proud of you, Uncle Brad!!! Good luck next week in Chicago!!!

Relay Time!

Fine motor skills practice, anyone?  Mollye loved it!

The game- nothing hard; in fact I would say very simple- transfer water from one bucket to another.  The object- using only the sponge take the bucket full of water and make it empty.  The bucket which was empty will now be full.  Do all this while running as fast as you can! Mollye's favorite part was the running fast!

Love this shot!!!



Oh, Mollye dear, how I wish I could play these games with you everyday! No worries though. Mommy has lots of fun Fall activities planned.

Missing these two!!!

So several weeks ago we were able to keep our two sweet nephews! Everyone had a blast! I was the lucky one who got to go pick them up, and boy oh boy were they excited to come home with me! They laughed and talked the entire way back to our house! Mollye was right there with them! It actually made me think that one day I might like to have three of them permanently in my backseat, but then again there are days that I think I just need my one and only! Ha!

Adam and I decided to do as much as possible in the short time that we had them! Adam started our weekend off by building the boys a fire and letting them make their own smores.  They loved this! They even stayed outside with Uncle Adam and told ghost stories about the scary kitten while Mollye and I headed in for bath. 

The next day the boys, Mollye, and myself all went to the train museum.  This was only after we stopped off to let Uncle Adam by everyone new sunglasses! They loved that special treat! Check out the fun that these kids had playing and looking at the trains!

After that we headed home for lunch and nap because there was a huge surprise waiting for them that night.  The boys were so excited that they could hardly sleep. I might have even had to lay down the law about nap time in order for them to get some rest, but they happily obliged and went to sleep in hopes that night time/surprise time would arrive quicker. 

After nap, we did some fun playing in the yard before off the boys went with Uncle Adam and Grandma Harvey (long story on the name!). Where do you ask? No other redneck, boy place than that of the - TRACTOR PULL!!!

I would like to call this a very fun-filled weekend! I am ready for another weekend with these sweet boys and their mama! Meg, this must be planned soon!