Snow White and Optimus Prime

We had our church’s Fall Festival a couple of weeks ago and here are a few pictures from that day:

         Then, today we had our Sunday School fellowship and let our kiddos put their costumes on and decorate cookies together:

Tonight, we put our costumes on again to let Nana take pictures and go trick-or-treating to our neighbors house and to another party at the church:

Random Moments

Cayden and Avery reading their magazines:

At bedtime, Avery always asks us to “ock” (rock) in the rocking chair, but the past few weeks when we try to rock her she says, “ME!” or “MINE!” meaning she wants to rock herself! So, we had to show you a picture of Avery rocking herself:

  Cayden and Avery each filled a shoe box for a little boy and girl their age who won’t get anything else for Christmas. If you aren’t familiar with this is it through Samaritan’s Purse and it’s called Operation Christmas Child. I worried that Avery wouldn’t part with the Hello Kitty coloring book, but she loved the idea of giving it to another little girl…she is a sweetie.

  Last, but not least, Avery had some great “bed-head” going on the other day!

Dinner on the back porch

Not an exciting post today, but we haven’t taken many pictures the past couple of weeks. Monday night the weather was perfect…not to hot and not too cold, so we ate dinner on the back porch and while the kids played on the swing set and slide, Damon and I got to swing on my newly reupholstered (Thanks to Mom and Granny) outdoor glider. Damon also lit up the chiminea  so it smelled like Ruidoso or Glorieta in our back yard. We are LOVING the cooler weather!

College Retreat

Our family had the opportunity to go to Ruidoso last weekend for our church’s college retreat. Yes, I know we aren’t in college anymore (thank goodness!…just being around college kids talking about professors, classes and the dorm made me tired!) Actually the entire staff and their families went on the retreat because they led in the Bible studies and worship. We had a great time with our friends and Cayden and Avery loved every minute of it too!

Damon got to play tennis with Nathan:

And Cayden and Avery got to play too!:

Cory, our Youth/Missions Pastor bought Cayden a fishing pole and Cayden loved getting to fish with his friends:

  Cory and Cayden acting goofy:

Kelly and I (Kelly is Cory’s wife)    Anna, Nathan (our Worship Pastor) and Kenna’s daughter, Avery and I on our townhouse back porch:

We had a great time and the weather was a lot colder than back home, but it felt nice. It was weird going from humid and hot at the beach to cold in the mountains. We loved both extremes!