Trick or Treat

Boy were we into Halloween around here this year! "How about 5 more houses, mom?"....I heard that line 4 different times. We were out Trick-O-Treating for 1 hour. I loved going out wiht my little football player and ladybug!

Pumpkin Carving

Tonight we carved Pumpkins...fun fun fun - messy messy messy. Kenna kept eating the pumpkin slime - yum! Memories were made!!!

Scoopin' it out

Goopy pumpkin gunk - Kenna's gonna eat it!

All scooped out - let's get carving

A job well done!

Operation Christmas Child

It sure is fun participating in Operation Christmas Child when a child is old enough to understand, and get excited about it! Tyler was so excited to go to the store and pick out items for these children. As we were putting the boxes together, Kenna would continue to unpack the boxes, and Tyler would repremand her, "Kenna, NO, these are not for us. They are for other children that do not have as much as us." What a great morning together!

Packing the boxes with the items the kids picked out

Boxes are complete!

And to finish it off.....a little love - Tyler-style

Little House on the Prairie

There are many awesome things about living in South Dakota. It is filled with a lot of history. Last weekend, my family came to visit, and we ventured to De Smet, SD, home of the Ingalls Family. Contrary to what many of us have learned from the TV show, the Ingalls family, spent most of their lives in De Smet, SD, not Walnut Grove, MN. We had an awesome time learning all about the actual adventures and life of the Ingalls family, and all left wanting to read all of Laura's books right now! Check out some of what we saw....

This is the actual schoolhouse that the Ingalls children went to school at.

Kenna is sitting in front of a replica of the first schoolhouse Laura taught in.

These kids could not understand that THIS was the way that people got places...not in cars.

This is my favorite...Prairie Kids - Laura, Grace, and Willie - That's who they thought they were

More history to come in the next couple weeks. We are headed out to "The Hills" - kind of like of Minnesotans say "The Cities" - next weekend for Aaron's first basketball tournament.

Praise Band

This is our life...loud banging, funky baby dancing, and lots of praise band singing/playing. Watch out, these kids are up-and-coming stars! Bet you wish you could be in our band too?!