WE ARE MOVING TO........

Well, we are off to ACSC (an Air Force school) at Maxwell AFB, Alabama!! It is basically in Montgomery. Neal was pleasantly surprised to be chosen to go to school. We will be going there next July and we will be there for about 1 year. It is a great place to be a family at, so please help us and pray that we sell our home or find great renters!! We will only be eight hours from Indiana.... the closest we have ever been since moving away. Our friends Jenn and Kevin are also moving there at the same time. We have been friends with them for about nine years. God has blessed us by sending the Gordon's and us to the same place three times in those nine years!! You Air Force people know..... this is very odd to actually go the same place three times with your greatest friends!!!

PRAISE GOD

Camden had a big day on Sunday. He was baptized at our church, Colonial Baptist. Pastor Alec was the one to baptize him. He was so excited when he woke up that morning. Then to see him all giddy right before he was baptized, was really cool. He was all smiles all day long. After we left church we invited a few friends over to celebrate!! We had 27 people over.... only 11 of those were adults!! Needless to say, the kids were all well behaved, and Camden enjoyed every minute of it!

Camden listens to what Pastor Alec has to say.

Under he goes......

Up he comes, refreshed in Christ!

FAMILY PICS GALORE

OK.... I know this is a lot of pics of our family. But I am so proud to finally have some family shots, that I really wanted to share them with my friends and family!!! So enjoy.... Also, people always say how much Emma looks like her mommy. I just think she looks like Emma... that is until I saw the pic of me holding her. She really does look just like me. So now I will believe all of you!!!! Don't forget to leave us a comment!! To leave one, just click on the "comment" icon at the bottom of this entry.

PUMPKIN PARTY

Our neighbors, Leighann and Perry invited our family down for a night of pumpkin carving, cookie decorating and pizza eating!!! Leighann was very prepared for us.... she bought each kid a large pumpkin and a small pumpkin to carve. She also put down a big black tablecloth on the floor, everyone had a towel to wipe their hands on and a scooper etc....She did a great job!! It was a lot of fun. The kids were not all too thrilled with getting their hands dirty, so the parents ended up doing a lot of the work. I would say Camden and Emma stuck with it the longest!!! One of the big events for the night was getting all the seeds ready to be baked so that we could eat them. The kids loved playing in the water!!! It just does not seems like fall when the kids are wearing t-shirts and shorts for their pumpkin carving!!!

Cookie decorating.... Sophia licked the icing off the spatula, Myah ate tons of sprinkles, Owen used about 500 candy corn for each cookie and Camden thought the little kids were hilarious!

Owen, digging into his small pumpkin first!

Emma was not afraid, she thought the "guts" were cool!

Camden took everything out of his pumpkin, drew his picture and craved it out all by himself!

Everyone hard at work on the pumpkins!!

Emma actually drew all these little pictures on her pumpkin. She would have to tell you what they all are. But then Neal cut them all out for her!! Pretty cool I thought!

SEEN THE MOVIE CALLED "THE BIRDS"?

So it is bird season here in Wichita Falls.... There are tons of birds EVERYWHERE. My theory is, the more northern states are getting colder so all of those birds have come to Texas for the winter. (yeah us) So what better fun for Emma and her friend Isabella to run through the birds?!?! I guess they have not seen that terrible movie...."the Birds".

PROUD MAMA

I am such a proud mama!! So I am going to brag a little bit on my big boy Camden. For his birthday he got about $70.00. It, of course, was burning a hole into his pocket. So we headed to Mardel, a local christian book store. While in mardel, Camden decided on a biblically based computer game for $20.00.

I was shocked that he did not want to spend the rest of his money. THEN...... he turned to Owen and Emma with NO prompting and asked them if they wanted to pick out something for themselves. HOW SWEET IS THAT?

He was so proud to pay for things for them. Not to mention, I was almost in tears while watching all of this take place.

PUMPKIN PATCH

This past weekend we took the kids to the pumpkin patch to get their pumpkins to carve. We chose a patch that gives all the profits to local mission work. They had lots of fun. Stay tuned for pictures of the actual pumpkin carving!!!!

Our three little pumpkins!!!!

Emma choosing a pumpkin the size of her!!

Camden chooses the cool looking pumpkin!

Owen rolls his pumpkin over to our pile!!!