Have you ever seen a turkey dressed like a cowgirl?

Sarah Brooke just brought this home from school. It was a homework project. The night of the school open house we got to see all the creative versions of dressed up turkeys. Some were santa clause, spiderman, some used different colors of pasta, leaves. Just adorable stuff.

We have been losing things around here

The enevitable has happened. Digital camaras have a little button called delete. Well ours was somehow activated. Pictures from the school open house like Cameron with his teacher, Sarah Brooke pointing to her name above her cubby and sitting at her table are forever gone. Also on the camara were pictures of our church chilli supper and game night. I'm not sure how it happened so I'm a little nervous about the camara now. Also it seems to have a funny/wierd exposure to it. I really should educate myself on photography how to's. The other thing we have been losing around here is teeth. Yes--teeth. Sarah Brooke lost her first tooth Friday night while David's parents and brothers family were here. Nothing like an audience to motivate you :) She pulled it all by herself.

After showing off her new space she went back into the bathroom and pulled the other one. They were both very ready. She couldn't have been more proud. The first tooth is worth alot.

Fall day

The girls and I walked to get Cameron from school this afternoon. The girls loved all the leaves on the ground. As we pulled in the driveway this morning Ashley noticed that our tree outside was turning from green to purple. She thought that was neat.

This is completely unrelated but I thought you might get a kick out of it. I'm minding my own business at the kitchen sink when I was jerked into an arguement of the girls. Now remember I have no clue as to the origin of this conversation/arguement. Ashley is yelling "Yes I do have a big bottom" to which Sarah Brooke was telling her how small it was. Ashley again replied while acting out the motions to the count down song just at lift off "I Dooo have a biiigggg bottom". Oh me!!!! :)

Not feeling well

I'm at home tonight not feeling well. It feels like I'm breathing under water. The bonus of being home sick on a Sunday night is getting to be apart of other churchs through live streaming. I have grown so much through the ministry of Hobe Sound archived services and just this week I came across the archives of Franklin Bible Methodist Church. Check out their Sunday morn. S.S and morning service Nov. 4. http://www.franklinbmc.org/ fantastic thoughts were expressed there and I feel like I was greatly encouraged to keep praying even when I don't see evidence of God moving or answering.

Treadmill competition results

Four weeks ago I was talking with my friend Kristen at church and we decided to be accountable to one another about our exercise. She set the bar at 2 miles a day or at least 10 miles a week with the prize of free baby sitting. I said "your on!!" Well I huff and puffed my way to victory! Now, I have a lot more to lose and my life is not as busy as hers at this point but I won none the less. We checked in weekly to give an account until the final week and then it was anybodies game. I started out the month with walking a 20 min. mile and can now say that I repeatedly walk 17 min. miles. I have to run for like a minute to get it down to that time and these chubby legs feel the workout. The final week I logged 18 miles. I would like to report a significant weight loss but my body is letting go very slowly. I'm getting killer calves (who cares) and my lungs are stronger (at least I can breath after running for one minute). The dilemma I have is when do I want to use my free baby sitting and where do I want to spend my time away.

This is my log in this morning. I think I can eat breakfast
now.

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What does a football player, miniature bride and Dorothy from Oz have in common?

That is how our kids dressed up for Halloween. They looked forward to this day for a long time. Of course the challenge is to find costumes that are unique, fun for the kids and not scary or evil and cheap!! This year we bought Cameron the Colt's jersey and he borrowed shoulder pads and the helmet from www.mybigbrownopinion.blogspot.com Thanks a million Brent!!! (it pays to have pack rat friends ha)Sarah Brooke used the dress from Curtis and Jennifers wedding and Miss Ashley was in a hand me down from Sarah Brooke. So I think we covered the cute, fun for kids and cheap part :)
Our friends, the Englands, came to our neighborhood to trick or treat with us. Part of the fun is doing it with your friends so Thank you for coming Danny, Ronda, Corey, Cassie and Cade. We trick or treated then raced off to prayer meeting. After church we had a snack time for the kids. I took spider crackers (ritz crackers & peanut butter w/pretzels for legs and chocolate chips for eyes) I got the idea from www.kraftfoods.com/halloween also brownies w/cool whip on top then I used chocolate syrup and made a spider web on top. I barely got them done in time to take to church and in the flurry of activity I didn't take a picture. Sorry.
It is fun to watch the kids look through their loot. It all looks like sugar to me. They know what candy belongs to who though. Another fun year for the history books or in my case scrap book.

October 31, 2007