Pumpkin Pickin'

What a beautiful month it was. The weather was mild, warm and mostly dry. I love to see the leaves change colors and start to fall off.

Our family has a fun tradition to go pick out our own pumpkins from a local fruit farm. The kids love to walk through the patches to find just the perfect pumpkin to be made into jack-o-lantern. We couldn't have asked for a more beautiful afternoon.

We had a lot of fun and were able to take a lot of cute pictures.

You may ask where is Jake's individual picture? Well that is a long story. A couple of days later, I had my camers sitting out on the counter. When I was busy working on scout stuff, my sweet little Clarissa, who was suppose to be sleeping, got a hold of my camera and in a few minutes deleted all 95 pictures and videos off my camera. Luckily, a friend of mine told me the next day that as long as you don't take anymore pictures you can get them back. Well I didn't even think I could get them back and had to use my camera that evening. Well it turns out that if your camera card is deleted, you can get them all back for FREE!! The only problem I had was that I had already taken about 2 dozen pictures, so Jake's pumpkin pictures were covered over by the new pictures. I was also unable to get back the videos.

So if any of you have sweet little inquisitive children like mine, here is the web site that helped me get my pictures back, http://www.download.com/Art-Plus-Digital-Photo-Recovery/3000-12511_4-10513647.html?tag=mncol;psum . Thanks Jolene for telling me about this!!

Caleb's First Field Trip

Now, we move into the month of October.

Caleb was so excited to go on his 1st field trip. We have a local orchard near the school that allows school groups to come and tour their faciltiy.

They first took Caleb and his class on a long walk out to the orchard where they were able to pick some apples. Then they walked back to the building to learn about the different types of apples and they sampled different kinds. They were then given a tour. During the tour they learned how all the apples are washed, stored and even saw how they turn apples into cider. I think the best part of the field trip was the homemade donuts and apple cider. Yummy!! The day was a great success!

Salmon Fishing

On September 26, Matt, Danny & Jake had a wonderful opportunity to go Salmon fishing with the Boy Scouts. They left on a Friday late afternoon and drove to Manistee and came back on Saturday evening.

To give you a little perspective, the stream they were at was about 8 to 10 feet wide at best and had some deep holes where it turned. These big King Salmon seemed very out of place but were a welcome sight. You could almost reach out and grab them by the tail.

Who Says You Can't Sleep Anywhere?

One day while I was working on the computer, Clarissa was playing with some toys on the stairs. I realized that it had become to quite so I decided I should go see where she had ventured off to. I was surprised to see her asleep on the stairs.

I quickly grabbed the camera, took a picture, then carried her off to bed so she could finish her nap in a safer place.

Sweet Dreams Clarissa!

Abby's in Nursery!

Our last child is now in nursery. Can you believe it, we can finally have time to enjoy our classes at church! It has only been 11 1/2 years since we have that opportunity. =)

Abby loves nursery! I think it helps that Clarissa is in there with her. It is so fun to watch them play with the other children. I think Abby's favorite part is definately snack time!!

Happy 10th Birthday, Jake!!

Our Jake turned 10 years old on September 19th. Because of pack meeting, we decided to celebrate it on Sunday, September 21st.

All Jake wanted for his birthday was a skateboard. I found his present early on. A couple of days before, I happened to find a keychain size skateboard. I thought it would be fun to wrap it up and give to him. Jake is such a sweet kid that after he opened it, he didn't even fuss about it. We said that was all we had for him and started to clean up. While he was cleaning up, we got the real skateboard out and boy was he surprised.

Thanks Jake for being a good sport while we made you the center of our joke!!
Abby also loved the skateboard.

Raingutter Regatta

Okay, so where does time really go? I can't believe it has really been over 2 months since our last post. Well in the next little bit I am hoping to catch you up on our life.

First close your eyes and climb into my time machine so we can go back to September 19th. It is night time and you have just joined us for the Raingutter Regatta Cub Scout Pack meeting.

Jake and Aaron are having the time of their lives while they race their boats against the other scouts. While neither of them came in first place, they had a ball. Lots of memories were made and good times were had.