November 2017

"Mom look! I'm making the letter E with my body!" - Eli

Vanessa learned how to french bread

Eli learning to read has been a highlight of the year for everyone

all looking so perfectly happy and in the aftermath of "LET ME SEE THE PICTURE" was a ton of fighting

card games with Mama Row before she went to AZ for the winter

gotta teach this boy to cook an egg!

Thanksgiving smoked turkey

Violet and Stella

reading what everyone is thankful for about all around the table

went for a walk and it was "too hot" for Eli

power went out at BBC and it turned into a beautiful candle lit baptism morning - memorable!

choosing the Christmas tree at Kris Kringles with Erismans

Christmas Legos

October 2017

My new method of blogging is "try to keep up with photos" so I'm looking through my pictures where I left off and will attempt to give a decent review of "what's up" in each month.  The following features October of 2017!

This was "crazy hair night" apparently at Awana.  She was the perfect candidate for "back-combing".

yikes.

implementation of jobs to do around the house daily 

appreciating the tiny water droplets on the grass!

we helped Rachel with her "decorate the pumpkin" competition at her office - she made a giant gumball machine out of hers.

one of Eli's tomatoes from his plant that Mama Row helped him care for.

thanking the people who let us use their garden space for tomatoes

fall fire!

Grandma Dee visited!

banana splits :)

 Decorating pumpkins

Vanessa's inspiration was Miraculous

the railings went up! Successful project!

I can't get over how bright these leaves are

Dave's halloween costume ON Eli the dinosaur.  Weirdness.

a glimpse of my Bible study notes as I followed Paul on one of his missionary journeys

random October pic

trick or treating crew.  Elmores joined us.

Dave attempting to drink out of his cup with his costume....oh the hilarity!