First Walk

These are the promised photos of the first walk in our new house.

That is not a giant multicolored turtle on the far left. It's Avery with one of their cardboard shields strapped to his back.

Snapshots

These are some pictures I got of the last walk we took when we were at our old house. The five little ones and I used to go down to the coffeeshop and get ice cream. There was a little park on the way, and the little ones loved it. Sometimes, on birthdays, we'd take sandwiches, sit up in the big oak tree, and have a picnic.

Our new home!

On our sidebar there is a little blurb about us. Part of it says:

Currently, we live in the suburbs in Northern Colorado. That will be
changing soon. Lord willing, we will be building a log cabin on some land,
debt-free, and closer to our church family in the very near future.
Meanwhile, we have to be out of our house in a matter of months, so we are
looking for a place to rent.

Well, we have found the place to rent and moved completely! We are now in Elizabeth, Colorado. It is a beautiful part of the state; half prairie, half trees. Where we are it is mostly prairie. We love the openness and still being able to see some of the mountains.

A Belated Happy Birthday

to Andrea Grace! I love you, Andrea! May God bless you even more in the coming year!)

Andrea turned SEVENTEEN on October 28th.

We had a party with some girls from our church and their families. Abby and Rachel share a birthday with Andrea. Daddy made a really neat tiered cake for them.

Hailey (whose birthday was the 26th) and her family were supposed to come, but were sick. =(
By the time we found out that they weren't going to be able to come, it was too late; Daddy had already piped Hailey's name on the cake. Abigail cried out,"Oh no! They can't come? Who is going to blow out Hailey's candles??" Haha...

                                                                          The Cake:

Many to come

Our poor blog has been sorely neglected, and for that I apologize. But, but, but, I think my excuses are valid. For one, we MOVED last Saturday! Yes, more to come on that.
Anyway, our internet is now set up, and I will try to add a bunch of posts and try to get the blog caught up.

That's all for now!

Fun at the Corn Maze

The month of October has been fairly busy for us. I don’t really even know why…
Anyway, I thought I’d update the blog with atleast one highlight.
Last weekend we invited the church all the way up to the corn maze, where we are selling apples, for a potluck. Even though "only" three families were able to come, there were over 30 kids in our group. =) We had a GREAT time. The weather was perfect, and there were so many fun things to do there.
As usual, the pictures tell the story:

I took these ones...

Some of the handsome boys.

Abby!

They have this box full of dried corn. Waaayyy more fun than a sand box!

However, as Becca Storrie and I learned the hard way a few weeks ago, you still get dirty. =)

Avery emerging.. and Mr. Searcy telling him he looks better under corn.

Luke, burried. Hahahaha.

Goin under.. these boys are way too much fun.

Cutie Aidan A. She reminds me of a Norman Rockwell painting.

Someone else getting burried...

Anna! and Abby! The pedal carts. The boys (and men...) loved these.


Elijah hanging out in our booth, and rating our products. =)

Andrea manning the booth.

Yummmmm.

Hahaha Mr. Adams and Mr. Searcy racing. Mr. Searcy took the inside corner and won. Click on this picture to enlarge it and look at their faces...

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And Andrea took these...

Abigail and Emma!

Awww.

Pumping the water for the rubber duck race.
Abigail and Emma really got into that one!

Friends.

Avery, A.T, Sawyer

Sisters.

I love those girls!

This one, too.

And her, too.

My Aidan!


I guess the pictures don't tell the whole story- about all the fun, the memories, and the fellowship- but they do an okay job. =)

Here We Go, Rockies!

We went to two Rockies games in the past couple weeks. We LOVE the Rockies. The reason we even got dish tv was to watch Rocktober 2007. We're cancelling dish, and it turned out it's just in time to miss the postseason. *Sigh* I do really love listening to them on the radio though. Daddy has always had the radio on listening to them for as long as I can remember.

We've always gone to atleast a couple games almost every season. This year since things are tight, we all pooled some cash together for Daddy's birthday (... I just found out that it was for his birthday... haha. Even better!) so we were able to go.