Different Happenings

We had a good weekend at church. On Saturday we had a youth activity where we made our own pizzas (YUM!) and played some Family Feud. Then, on Sunday, we had a surprise for our pastor. We had taken an offering to honor his 11 years at the church and to celebrate he and his wife's 35th wedding anniversary. It was a lot of fun and a big surprise for them. We also had a cake reception for them after the evening service. Here is a picture of Pastor Cary Flinck and his wife Nancy.



We are also busy with AWANA at our church this year. Matt is the commander this year and we had a great opening night this last Wednesday. We had a lot of kids, some of them first-timers, show up for the ice cream party. We are praying that they will continue to come throughout the year and bring a lot of their friends.

Jack has been getting bigger every day. He loves to learn new words and make us laugh. Here is a video of Jack being a bad Baptist by dancing with Elmo.

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I thought I would also share a funny story of Jack eating a snack the other day. He was eating his peaches and loving them. He started to get a little hyper and thought he would be funny by slapping his hand to his face. He forgot that he still had a peach in his hand and the following photos show the result.




Of course, I could have cleaned him up right away, but I knew my first priority was to run and grab the camera!

Happy First Day of October!!!

Sadly, the Twins didn't make it to the playoffs; but there we were cheering them on! Oh well. Still had some good snacks!

So we're keeping pretty busy with church - Awana starts tonight! And we have a special Sunday planned for this coming week, so we are busy getting that all together. And it's been nice to spend time with family lately. Otherwise, I'm babysitting and keeping busy with other projects. It's nice to have a day like today where I had not one thing planned...on purpose! The rest of the week will be busy, so I'm just enjoying today!

Jack is making us laugh more and more saying all kinds of things. He stands on top of his little potty while I'm getting ready in the bathroom and sings out of one of his books. I can make out the word "Jesus" every now and then, so it's good to know it's a Christian song - HA. Well, have a good week, and hope everyone is doing well. As my family always races to say first, "Happy First Day of October!" I know. I don't really have an explanation. It's just a weird family thing that I just let you all in on. But we hope you have a happy day anyway.

Happy Fall!

What nice weather and a relaxing couple of weeks just babysitting, shopping, and being outside. I have decided to get organized and do some more reading every day. This summer I just read for fun, but I will be doing a couple of Bible studies beginning this fall and trying to get through the many books that I own before buying more. It's fun, and I enjoy it a lot; but it's definitely work, too!

I also want to start exercising more - wow, what a bad feeling as I jumped rope a little yesterday! Even though the fair is gone, it is still ever-present with me! HA! Probably last year's fair, too! So I need to get with it. Jack thinks I'm pretty funny-looking jumping rope.

Of course, Jack is the best and most important part of my "day job". I am reminded constantly of what an opportunity and a precious life God has given us to try to influence for Him. And thanks to my husband for being so supportive of this most important time in Jack's life for me to be home with him. I wouldn't trade it (or them) for anything.

So last night, we roasted marshmallows in our fire pit outside. It's a fire code that you have to have food when you build a fire. I just thought that was normal procedure, so it worked out! But it was a nice, relaxing thing to do just to sit and talk to Matt while Jack ran around. I am usually a busy person who doesn't know how to sit for very long, but I'm learning to appreciate the simple life!

Saturday - apple orchard time. This one is a special day for a friend's work, so I'm sure we will hit some more as the leaves change! I don't mind. I love fall and the things that go along with it. I just wish it would last 6 months instead of winter!

Elmo!

We got to see Elmo at a new Herberger's opening! He's probably the only little character Jack knows, but he still wasn't too sure about hugging him!

Grandparents Day

Happy Grandparents Day to the best Grandparents ever! Thank you for being so wonderful and for just being you!

Great Grandma's walker is a fun ride!

Twins game

Our church had an activity going to the Twins game. How fun! We like peanuts, Cracker Jacks, Dome dogs...oh, and Twins baseball! We won, and we got to see a grand slam!

The fair is over - SIGH - and so now the diet starts! WOW - I have been so bad! We were able to go again over the weekend and saw our favorite a capella group Tonic Sol-Fa, and I finally got to go with my dad! I had the best time. And I got to hear him gush about the cows. I loved them, too! He even bought me a t-shirt since I was joking that I needed one that said I'd rather be at the state fair. They didn't have one that said that, but I got a cute one anyway. It was just a great time with my dad.

We had heard we were going to receive an offer on our house this past week, but we haven't heard anything else about it. So hopefully this week.

So now fall and football season! Matt is excited, so that makes it fun. We are going to have a youth activity watching Monday Night Football! That's what happens when two avid Vikings fans are planning the activities! His work had an employee appreciation day the other day and he brought home 3 gallons of leftover Breyers chocolate ice cream! Not fair, but we will use it for the Vikings game and make those kids with fast metabolism eat it!

Jack started singing. He rocks his head back and forth and jabbers in a sort of rhythm. I don't know what he's singing, but it's fun to hear!

So that's about it. I'm going to start walking twice a week, I think, again. So that will make me feel better. So life is back to normal after all of the excitement, and it's actually kind of nice! Have a great day, everyone!