Morning B and B (Bible and Breakfast)

Just a few photos from our family bible time that we have each morning. I think it is the favorite part of my day!







Now, on to dealing with these apples. I have some applesauce to make!

Updates :)

It's been a while hasn't it. Just wanted to say that I am still here. Having a 2 year old and a new baby can keep one VERY busy.

A few updates:

The summer was not really busy, other than dealing with the little ones. The heat made it hard to get out of the house.

We finally got our dining room and living room painted, courtesy of my wonderful mother. It really brightened our moods to have some fresh paint on the walls and to finally start making the home our own. We did the dining room in a wonderful red color and the living room is a nice yellowy gold tan color. The one picture of the dining room shows the red on one side and the blueish primer on the other side of the fireplace.



We attended a few art fairs and went strawberry and blueberry picking for the first time. That was a lot of fun.







Jack turned 2. He is doing a lot better. He has started to talk and counts up to 10 and backwards to 1. He says a few words and each week seems to have another word he learns to say. He is continuing with the Early Intervention playgroup. He is my child that teaches me patience and makes me want to lose a lot of weight to keep up with him. He always seems to find something to get in to.



Oliver got bigger :)



I made a rag quilt and some coasters.



I canned some applesauce. Made some pasta sauce and refrigerator pickles too.


School started last week here in the home and the first week went very well. I feel so blessed to be able to sit around the table first thing in the morning having family devotions. I love to be able to see the wheels turning in my son's head as he figures out math problems and also the joy he expresses when he gets them all right.




Wow, that was quite the update! I continue hoping that I will be able to get back to blogging more regularly.

Until next time....

What A Wonderful Day With My Family

I made chicken soup and apple pie. We lit a fire and carved pumpkins outside and are now ending the day. I don't know how much I will be able to finish in this blog, but I intend on putting the recipes I made from today up and also pics from our pumpkin carving fun.

I will start with pumpkin carving tonight. Probably will post the soup and also another recipe I made with pics either tonight or tomorrow.



Setting up



Our pumpkins only 2.99 a piece with buy 2 get 3rd free.



Nice warm fire.



Anderson did not like to put his hands in pumpkin.







Anderson finally decided to take his glove off and just go bare handed to pull out pumpkin guts.


He thought it was pretty gross.


Then he was proud of himself.





Here is when we took a break to have the "best apple pie ever" as Bill said.






The day as I said was very good. Here are pics of the finished products of my meals I made today for which I will post recipes with the pictures of each step.





Here are the finished pumpkins...


Bill's pumpkin for Jack!


Anderson's pumpkin


Courtney's pumpkin

Pumpkin family hanging out on porch.



Bill decided to make roasted pumpkin seeds.



You may have been wondering where my littlest one was during all this....my little Jack-O-Lantern was sleeping peacefully in his cozy car seat.

Apple Orchard

We went to the apple orchard at the beginning of last week and I have been so busy I have not gotten a chance to get the pics up.

We went with my parents who were down for a visit.