Last soccer game with Coach Roy and Ms. Mary

This week was very busy. Our favorite soccer coach , Coach Roy , and his wife Ms Mary are leaving to go back to England. taht is where their children and grandchildren are and they miss them. We are going to miss coach and all his enthuasiam in teaching the children.
This was our team the last day.

Little miss natural

Grace and Kathryn before we headed to the practice.

Pebbles

Today was one of those " you know you are old when..." moments. Kathryn was getting dressed for the Harvest Festival at the Church. She was going to be a doctor but when she came out of her room this is what she had on. I told her she looked like Pebbles. she asked "who is Pebbles?" So off to the internet we went to look up the Flintstones. I put a bone in her hair and the costume was complete.
They had the usual things like the bounce houses...(Kathryn's toes are the ones at the top of the slide. She started too late and I missed her coming down the slide..

... But she was all smiles at the end...)

This was her favorite house. She worked and worked until she got a basket.

and carnival games...

They even had some unusual things like toasting marshmellows to make smores.

Kathryn played 12 rounds of the cake walk to win a cake. she choose some mini cupcakes so she could take them home to share with everyone.

This was a donut eating contest.

We only stayed for about an hour but we had a great time. When we left it was starting to get really crowed and we had done all the activities anyway so we called it a day. Halloween is such a silly fun time.

Dancing with Daddy

I was on the back computer this afternoon, when I hear giggling from the front room. I look up and see Tom and Kathryn dancing. I of course grabbed my camera and snuck in there and got their picture before they realized what I was doing. I love the looks on their faces.

Bella

It is hard to believe but Bella has been a part of our family for one year now. It does not seem that long.
So tiny, so cute...
Look at her now. She is still beautiful. just befor this pic was taken she had been up in the little bed that she is beside now. I called for the camera and of course she jumped down.

Granny's Frying Pan

I guess I better start with an update. For the last month since Albertson's closed Robert and Amanda have been tossing around the idea of using his severence package to open up a resturant. They invited Tom and me to join them. We went and signed the papers on Friday and we now have to get it cleaned up and operational. We have one month to get all the ducks in a row or decide we are in over our heads. I will post pictures at a later date. Please keep us all in your prayers as we begin this new adventure.

Tithes

We were sitting in church on Sunday and it came time for the offering plate. We usually give Kathryn some change or a dollar to put in. This sunday I did not have any cash on me and I told her this. She says to me why don't you put in your debit card. Jesus could use your credit card. The people sitting behind us just started laughing.
I remember when we were little one of my siblings told mom when they were in the store and mom said we did not have the money for something the sibling said why not just write a check for it. If it were only that easy sometimes. They do not understand yet that you must first have money in the bank to back it up.

Pumpkin Patch

Yesterday Tom, Kathryn, and I went to a pumpkin patch. I had been asked to come read to a group of children from a local center. The "patch" is at a church. They had every kind of pumpkin and gord that you can imagine. We had fun looking and exploring all the different shapes and textures.

I read two stories to the children. It was funny because one I was going to read I could not find at home and when I got to the church it was one of the ones they had picked out for me to read.

It is called "The Pumpkin Patch Parable" . We bought this book for Kathryn at her first pumpkin patch in Orlando and we have read it to her every year since. Her face lit up when she saw and recognized the book. I must find her copy at the house.

As you can imagine there were many photo opportunities. Her are daddy and Kathryn with her new friend Haley.

Kathryn made her choice of a medium pumpkin. Last year was the first year she would put her hands in the slimmy stuff. This year she can not wait for daddy and her to carve it up. they are planning on a spooky face. We will see what they come up with.

She got this little one for participating in the storytime. She gave the little one to Haley. She is going to draw a face on it and use feathers to make hair. Pics to follow later.
Here is Cinderella returning home after the ball.

Pumpkins were not the only interesting thing at the patch. This bird kept flying from tree to tree and he finally landed on this post where we snapped his picture.