Food, Fun & Batman on a Horse

We had a super great weekend!!! It started with a fun neighborhood picnic right in our backyard in the big open field next to our house. They had a big BBQ going all day with lots of yummy food. They had pony rides for the children, face painting, a big crayola jumping thing for the kids to jump in, a DJ with jammin music to set the tone. Bradley jumped off and on for 4 hours. Then off to the ponys and back to jumping ect....I could hardly keep track of him. Another highlight was he got to be batman for a day. I knew he was over getting his face painted but wasn't standing right next to him so when he came to show me I about fell over and laughed like crazy because I didn't expect his whole face to be done. Luckily he didn't take offense. Usually they'll only do a small picture on the cheek or something, but oh no, it was the full deal. He loved it!! The schrodts stopped by as things were winding up and got to witness batman in action. Katy you were too cute immediately whipping your camera out of your bag to take a picture of him. I'm just glad batman didn't scare the poo poo out of Callie as he smothered her. HA! Sorry, he just loves babies so much, the only way he can express it is to maul them.

That evening we had more food and fun with some mixed emotions. We had a good bye party for our friends Troy and Karen. They are moving back North to pursue a great opportunity. Troy is Craig's childhood friend that moved out here after we did. It all happened so fast and now off they go. They are so excited and wired that you just can't help not to be just as excited for them. We were talking with them the other day and said it probably won't hit us all until they are gone. It'll feel weird not having them pop in every other week for our life chats. We'd always have the best talks in where God was leading each of us in our life and now God is leading them in this new opportunity. We'll miss you Troy and Karen.

We had a great Sunday at chuch!! It was a great sermon on Vision and as always wonderful worship. It was our second week teaching second graders and all went very well. We have such a nice group of kids in our class.

That afternoon, Craig was bursting at the seams to watch the Packer game and we don't always get it on our TV. So he convinced Kevin to buy the NFL ticket by telling him he'd go half, which didn't take much convincing since he's a Packer nut too. So off Craig went to get some "guy time" which I was happy for him, but I was bummed because Michele wasn't going to be home so I didn't go. We stayed home for naps and before we knew it daddy was home and we headed out to Great Bridge, picked up a pizza and had a picnic at the Locks Park. It was such a perfectly cool fall night. I didn't know they had little trails at the back of the park so we enjoyed our little nature walk back by the water watching the boats go by. Bradley couldn't pick up enough sticks, logs ect and Alayna couldn't eat enough dirt or chew on enough pine cones. A very relaxing ending to a busy weekend.

Can you tell I've been eating dirt? Mmmm good!

Collecting my Treasures

There were perfectly formed locust shells on
this tree. It was kinda cool to see.

Hey, how did I get up here?

Ok I think I'm all caught up for now on blogging. Whew!!