N led singing

Here are two videos of Natasha's song leading at Ladies' Day - today!  Such a timely blog post!!  8-)  ;)  ;)

Thanksgiving

Todd made Angel Biscuits for Thanksgiving! He laughed so hard that I caught his grumpy-face expression, ha!

Thanksgiving Dinner


Sister-to-Brother conversation one morning in the almost-balmy weather.
Played Settlers of Catan. Great game.

Cropped this shot of N out of the Thanksgiving Dinner pic!
SWEET.HEART.

[All of the dressed-up pictures in this post were taken Sunday morning after Thanksgiving.] In the chaos of packing to leave after worship, Kelsey's bow didn't get tied! Jeremy helped her with that.

Here is Jeremy surrounded by the closest women in the world to whom he is blood related.


Justus and Daniel found an old coin in the yard; they decided to clean it to see if it was, you know, from the Spanish Inquisition. Nope. Date on it was 1996.


Shelby is maybe the sweetest dog I've ever known, except for Shaftie. :)
The younger four children had SOME KIND OF FUN playing Nerf Ninjas this evening!

October, second half.

Natasha made this stuffed knitted mouse for her friend's birthday.

Tiger by N.
This was an assignment with which N had great difficulty. Drawing a golf ball....



Took the following two pictures so I don't forget to recommend the wonderful series, Peter and the Starcatchers!!! Take care to note the message Justus left on the inside cover, where we each keep a stickynote indicating at which spot on the CD we left off.




I experienced my worst-ever burst blood vessel in the eye. Took a full month for the blood to reabsorb.

These three pics of Justus and Brandon are cutest when viewed in backwards order. They were working on a new toy of Brandon's, which was malfunctioning....

The Dominoes table.
Bananagrams table.
Sequence table. I counted to three.

We visited a new-to-us pumpkin patch for a couple hours one beautiful afternoon. Swung on a huge, wonderful tire swing...

Raced pedal carts...

Selected pumpkins...

Another pic on the tire swing...
Played the table tilt game...
Raced rubber duckies in water pump gutters...

Bounced on inflated bouncy-horses...