Flying Squirral

I know this is coming late, but I want to tell you about when we got to do "The Flying Squirral." My aunt lives near a camp and we were all able to take a turn flying Peter-Pan Style. The pictures aren't fabulous, but I'll share a few. However, it was amazingly fun and higher than it looked. Both boys flew as well and both Grandmas.

Andrew taking off (no flying pictures turned out.)
The Muscle Men that made flying possible.

AJ all geared up and ready to go.

Me in flight.

(look how hard those muscle men had to work)

My Mom soaring.

A Video of AJ flying. (Ignore my voice.... it's lame.)

Isn't he sweet....

Andrew came upstairs from the toy room the other day asking me if I wanted my coffee, because he had made me a coffeemaker.

Impromptu Family Picture

Andrew has his 2nd homework assignment this week. They are learning about families and he needs to attach a family photo to his paper. We really don't have much of a recent one, so we quick gathered, set the auto timer and on our second try we got this one. Good enough - even with Andrew's "smile".

Errand Day

It started at 8:40 AM...

• Pick up Neighbor/Classmate
• Drop Boys off at Preschool, AJ stays with me.
• Shop Aldis and load the cooler with our cold groceries in the back of explorer.
• Hit Bank
• Buy Coffee Mate creamer at Walgreens - $1.48 for 4-16oz bottles! ($.37 each!)
• Hit the Bread Outlets for 100% Whole Wheat Organic loaves on the cheap (and throw in reduced powdered sugar donuts for the boys, I swear.)
• Shop CVS. Got $20.91 in merchandise for $.96 that I put on a free CVS gift card! And received $4.49 back in CVS money!
• Hit Goodwill and scored winter boots for Andrew for $5!
• Picked up boys from preschool
• Dropped off Neighbor/Classmate at his home
• Went to Staples and got gifts for Andrew's two teachers for free after coupons!
• Hit Meijer for the few items we couldn't get at Aldi
• Forgot to stop at the gas station ($1.97 Gas!!) and came home.

1:00pm.

• Feed boys a late lunch of rotisserie chicken and potato wedges from deli, while I try to put all my bags of groceries away.
• Get boys down for a nap (or attempted nap).
• Put frozen food away in freezer and decide to clean out upright freezer and update my freezer inventory.
• Receive a call that we might have someone stop by the house and do a mad-dash pick up.
• CRASH on the couch with the laptop listening to the boys not nap.

2:30pm

What a blessed errand day - even in this November rain. But I will be ready for a little night out tonight. Dinner with my friend before off to Bible Study. Phew.

Can't really punish them for that.

I'm sure that I have mentioned this before, or if you know us at all, you know that my boys have an issue with staying in bed at night and keeping quiet. It's a regular battle both at nap time and at night time.

The other day during nap time, after already telling the boys that they needed to settle down and be quiet, I could hear the boys giggling and AJ yelling out, "NO!" over and over.

So I practically stomp upstairs, ready to lay down the law, when I pause long enough to listen in.

What I hear is Andrew reciting Luke 2, but substituting a regular word every phrase or so with a silly nonsense word. When the nonsense word is said, AJ yells out "NO!" (among lots of giggles) and gives Andrew the correct word. They were practicing their Bible verses in the same way I taught it to Andrew last year.

Needless to say, they didn't get in trouble... for that instance.

My New Book

One of my lovely 20-Something ladies, Miss Emma, offered to give me her copy of Redeeming Love when she found out how much I loved the book. It was very sweet of her and now that I have it... I am very excited about it and wishing for time to read it again already. Thanks Emma!

Our Halloween Weekend

It's coming a little late, but here is how our Halloween weekend unfolded.

It started out with a parade at preschool.
Then we made pumpkin cookies after naptime.

My Superman and Spiderman were ready to pass out candy and wait for GIDEON (and family) to come visit!! We had a great visit with them, with the kiddos running around Friday night.

Saturday, the daddy's went fishing, so we packed up the kids to head to the Gardens... but we got sidetracked when Krispy Kreme's Hot and Now sign was lit up.

Hot, free donuts. Perfect.

Grandma Fred and Grandpa Lena Meijers.

What a fun weekend.

Preschool Field Trips

His most recent field trip to the fire department. Aren't they adorable.

His trip to the Orchard.

And the blonde little girl he is sitting next to in the top picture on the firetruck....

....is his girlfriend.

Who Won?

I snagged this from my friend, Shannon's, blog.

So – Did Your Guy Win?

As of the writing of this note, the new president hasn't been chosen yet but by the time you all read this the choice will be made. Did your guy win?

If he did, what do you do now? Pop the champagne and taunt the opposition? Throw a party? No - you pray for him and his administration.

If the other guy won what do you do now? Shake your fist at the news, throw the remote at the TV and swear never to vote again? No - you pray for him and his administration.

The Bible tells us that leaders are set up by God, it also tells us that we, as followers of Jesus, are to pray for those in leadership.

Today as we go about our day may we all stop and thank God for our country and then may we all pray for the safety and wisdom of the incoming president.

-Written by Kelly Hegi

I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and
thanksgiving be made for everyone— for kings and all those in authority, that we
may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness.

1 Timothy 2 1:2

Only took 90 minutes.

And believe it or not, I am looking forward for tonight after the kids go to bed and I can watch the coverage.

...I'm also waiting for my friend Jen to leaving a comment rooting for her canidate. :)