Darth Vader and Marcia Brady had a great time Trick-or-Treating. I dressed up as an overdue pregnant women….still waiting for baby brother! I thought I would be holding him while I passed out the candy this year!
It has become kind of a tradition for the kids and I to do cut-out sugar cookies in the Fall in the shapes of leaves and pumpkins. As we did it today, I was reminded of how we were still doing showings at our home in Urbandale, IA at this time last year. It seems really crazy that a year ago our other house wasn’t even sold yet! Such good memories in our home there…now we are making new memories here…
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Just thought I would share a couple more snow pictures from earlier this week. I took them while waiting at the bus stop with Jake on the day that we got the most snow.
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Seriously! 22 degrees and snow this morning! Is this for real? At least the kids are happy about it.
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Matt had a great interview this week with Tim Challies.
He talks about
“…how DG began, our core purpose, our philosophy of being here to serve rather than for how we can benefit, why we post everything online for free, and some thoughts on organizational effectiveness.”
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Today Kate and I made our annual Pumpkin Bars from scratch. We usually do one small pan and one big one. I let her decorate the small one and she had a great time!
We’ve also made several batches of Pumpkin Shake this year too.
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We have a little over 2 weeks until the baby is due and we are finally getting things ready! We have been putting a lot of our energy and time into the basement, so it is fun to have that done (I’ll share some pictures soon), and be able to turn attention to baby preparation. One of the things we did was get the carseat all washed up and ready. We used a Cabbage Patch Doll to get the straps in about the right place. Now if we could only find the directions to put the crib together…..
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Kate loves Preschool! This picture is from her first day.
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On August 22, with the kids at my parents so that Matt and I could close the loops on some home projects before the baby comes, we awoke to a basement with puddles in it! Our sump pump had failed, and with over 4 inches of rain in the past 5 days, that meant a lot of water had seeped in. A huge home project to add to our list!
We are now moving ahead on getting the basement restored. We had figured we would do some painting and carpet changes in the basement in a few years, but the project got thrust upon us a little sooner! Here are some pictures of our big mess! Thankfully our insurance company paid for a service to come in to remove the carpet and set up the huge fans and dehumidifiers so it could dry up in less than a week. Now we just have to get carpet and base trim and get it all put back together before the baby comes in 6 weeks!
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Jake started 1st grade this year, and so far he loves it! It’s also his first year to ride the bus.
Kate started gymnastics on Jake’s first day of school. She is at the same place where she went last year, but now has the added bonus of going there with her neighborhood friend!
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