WRITING AWARD

Last Friday, Camden received a second place award for writing. (before I got there, I thought it was for handwriting... come to find out, it was for writing...as in writing stories). I was very proud of him. I laughed to myself, as I got teary eyed.... knowing that some day at his wedding I will be a complete mess. Seeing your children succeed, is such a joy!!!!

Camden proudly displays his second place ribbon.

Here, he is receiving his ribbon!

HAPPY FALL YA'LL!!!

Hope you all had a great time with your little trick or treaters!!! Our kids sure had fun on their 82 degree Halloween!!!!!!! We walked up one side of the street and back down the other side. Just with that amount of houses, the kids had full baskets. They were very excited to get back home and pass out candy to all the trick or treaters!

Owen, being a warrior statue in his Dragon Knight costume!

Camden posed as King Peter from Narnia.

Emma, our little renaissance princess. (you know, to go along with her two knight brothers... you know I like a theme!!) Oh and she had a wand that the dragon knight broke the day before....


God's little knights and princess!!

Ahhhhh, how cute!!!!!

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".