Happy Thanksgiving 2009

Above: Kobe and Brennan "wrestling" Carter, their 6'7" heavyweight college scholarship wrestler from southwest state. Below: Brennan pinned Kobe in their wrestling match.

Hope you all had a wonderful thanksgiving. Here's a few pics of the events at our thanksgiving! We are all so blessed with everything we need, not even thinking how or where we'll get our next meal, or where we'll sleep and stay warm. Thank you Lord, we are so grateful for all our blessings.

Baby Sister's Baby??

Wow, I'm so excited my baby sister Adea is having a baby. Yes, that does make me feel old! I hosted a baby shower for her a few weeks ago. It all went well, and was so much fun (diaper cakes are just as fun to make) - she received a lot of necessities, which was awesome for her. The baby decided not to let them find out the sex (they were hoping not to paint the currently pink room) - you gotta love God's humor!!! We can't wait to meet you Baby Sell.

Halloween 2009

How nice to have halloween on a saturday! We had a great day, we ate "spiders" for lunch, then carved our pumpkins, and had "mummies" for supper. The boys are at such a fun age for trick or treating - Kobe was "warehouse mouse" from the disney show Imagination Movers, and Brennan was an "eeeeeeh" fireman - they both loved it, and so did mommy! We hit everyone in our neighborhood, and then hopped in the car and visited some friends homes, and over to burnsville to visit John Kline's home and a couple of troy's other co-workers. We even had a surprise visit from a witch and ghost which turned out to be Troy's parents!! Our church did a really neat thing too - the kids had to "tithe" their candy on sunday - so we counted out one tenth of the candy - and it was amazing what a little amount it was compared to how much we were to keep - it was a good lesson for the parents too. :)

Brennan

Okay, okay, this is the last one, and I promise I'll try to keep up. Just thought it time to do another update on Brennan. He's doing great with talking, he definitely gets his messages accross, and rarely do we not understand what he's saying (which is frustrating on both ends). His latest is saying OH, in a high pitch voice after you tell him anything, as if he finally understands! It's so cute! He's saying more sentances, and doing more repeating on his own. I can't even keep up with the list of words he's saying, but my favorite is still shee-pa (sheep), and his big one is ba-nana! Other than talking, he loves to be on stage at meal time (and will do anything to make his brother laugh, even if it gets him in trouble), he's a whiz at puzzles, and can color an entire color book in a matter of minutes. He also is really into lining things up - he lines the matchbox cars the entire width of the kitchen, right on the edge of the carpeting (yes, we have that many cars/trucks). And he will do anything his brother requests, which Kobe loves, and sometimes uses to his advantage (picking up bugs, frogs to put in Kobe's bucket). Kobe's latest is playing with his toy monkey - he has a pacifier, and a bottle, and I got specific instructions on what to do while he was at preschool. This was last week (ie feed him the bottle at 11:30). Today he brought the monkey with in the car again on the way to preschool, but I think he gave the instructions to brennan, because every time we went into a store, brennan said "ooh ooh aah aah", he wanted the monkey to come too! Seriously, and I don't have girls?? Good night.

Clown parade

Last year was the pumpkin parade at Kobe's preschool, and this year they decided to be clowns - they were adorable. Each costume was uniquely made by each preschooler. I just love his preschool!

charlie brown

My husband requested I blog this picture of the boys watching the annual "great pumpkin patch charlie brown". He is such a good dad - always remembering these types of things and making it fun with popcorn and koolaid (but lets be honest, he enjoys it as much or more than they do). :)

apple orchard fun

So last weekend we took a trip to an apple orchard which also has a corn maze, a straw maze for the kids, apple shooting, hill of hay, apple cider press demonstration, hay rides, kids rides, a petting zoo, and a neat playground with a rolling slide! OH, and of course lots of sampling!!! We had a lot of fun, and could have stayed much longer, but my cousin met us there and we got to have chase/molly saturday night - they all played so well, troy and I could have left the house, and they wouldn't have even noticed! Can you believe we even got 4 kids bathed, dressed, and out the house ON TIME for a 9am church service?? Whew!