Happy Reformation Day!

Happy Reformation Day! We had a great time dressing up and going to our church's annual Reformation Celebration! The church joined up with the school's annual West Fest... we loved having another opportunity to have the two together :o) While most things on this day focus on Halloween we really enjoy celebrating the start of the Protestant Reformation and learning about Martin Luther (who nailed his 95 theses on the door on Oct 31st)!

Graham dressed up as an astronaut... appropriate for living right beside NASA :o) As you can tell he was already pumped about his prizes!

Kate was a ladybug! She would have sat in the pool if we would have let her!

Beanbag toss

Two little ladybugs!!

The youth group did such a great job helping out!

Our pumpkins (and a lion!)

Graham, Kate, AND Nat's first time trick-or-treating!

Classic jack-0-lantern and space invaders :o)

Pumpkins!

A few days ago we headed to the Methodist church for some pumpkins!!!

The Visschers were there at the same time... isn't Ella cute?

And Kate!

G spent most of his time playing in the pile of hay!

Sweet :o)

And filthy! Ha!!

Hodgepodge

My apologies... this is a slight mess of pictures from the past couple of weeks... Enjoy!

Nat went on a men's retreat in the middle of October... a few girls came over for fun and then Heather and Elliot (swinging with Kate) spent the night since we were both husbandless - such fun!!

Graham enjoyed getting packed up :o)

Big girl!

Aslan still loves attention as soon as the kids go to bed... he is totally lounging!!

Playing in the backyard...

This worked a little better!

We had some fun new friends, Scott and Mallory, over for dinner... I forgot to take pictures while they were here, but here are some sweet flowers they brought us! They're coops with Nasa so it's fun to hear about all of the neat things they get to do!

Sharing m&ms :o)

Mallory invited us to take a tour of the "Super Guppy" which is a huge aircraft that carries big things (like other airplanes). Kate played with her buddy Ella so we could take Graham on a special trip. Here are Nat and Graham in the cockpit!

This won't rotate back but this is the inside of the guppy - isn't it huge?!

Across the way was also the jet that carries the Space Shuttle around!

Outside of the Super Guppy

She also took us in the Weightless Wonder (astronaut training jet)!

I think this is a WB-57... someone would have to correct me if I'm wrong.

T-38s... Thanks to Mallory for an awesome tour!

Girlie-girl... bows, shoes, necklaces, bracelets - she loves it all! :o)

A walk in the park hoping to see some hot air balloons... unsuccessful but still a fun time!

Not much is better than ending the day with some hot chocolate :o)

Quick Picture Update

Here's a quick idea of what we've been up to... trying to make it fast before Kate wakes up from her nap!!

Graham's first go-cart ride!! ....And he's still pumped that the youth group was there to cheer him on!

Nat and Tyler made a picnic table for us so we have a patio table for the first time since we've been married! Thanks guys!

We finished staining all of our projects :o)

Nat caught a hummingbird that was stuck in our garage... poor little guy!

And because it's October, we are starting to have days that we can be outside more than inside (and we're taking advantage of it!). It's still in the 80s, but at least it's in the low 80s and then cooling off at night. Whew! We survived another Texas summer :o)

Pigtails!

Nat had an awesome opportunity to fly up in a B-17 (he's doing a service for the air show that is in town next weekend and had also been asked to pray for them during their media day... what a neat perk)!!

Enjoying some sweet Daddy time whenever we have a chance :o)

More outside... Kate started climbing ladders this month and I go between being excited that she can do the playgrounds on her own and being panicked that she's going to forget that she is up high and let go (or step off). I can't believe how big they are both getting!!

Silly kiddos before bed :o)

And we're starting to have a lot more park time once again... G loves riding his bike to the neighborhood park!

We love fall!