Heartfelt Thank you to our Veterans!

It's Veteran's Day! I know that most of us take what our veterans have done for us for granted, they are the reason we enjoy the freedom that we have in our country and are still fighting for us to this day.
Logan's 5th grade class presented a musical, patriotic program today called "Voices of Freedom" in honor of our veterans. There were many veterans present today for this, some from WW2 to Iraq. I saw some moved to tears. When I see a grown man cry, it really moves me. The last song that was performed was "Taps", we were all asked to stand for this and I saw several of the veterans saluting those who lost their lives for us. Really touching. I do think it was great for these school children to see actual faces of the people who fought for our country.
There was a slide show presentation shown to the music of God Bless America. Some of the most beautiful sites in our great country from the planes to snow capped mountains. If Earth is this beautiful, can you imagine how beautiful Heaven will really be?
Here is a picture of Logan and my parents after the program, and also my dad's name during the presentation of veteran's names.

Election Day

Well, I have officially cast my ballot for the Presidential Election. I am trying not to feel anxious about it; I am not watching the news.....yet.
I know that we are not to be anxious about anything; but we are humans and that is a hard thing to to. I know that God is in control no matter who wins tonight, it is all in His plan. I know that my family will continue to keep our faith in God. "Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see." (Hebrews 11:1). I know that He is going to take care of his people, and I take comfort in that. "For I know the plans I have for you, saith the Lord, plans to prosper you and give you hope and a future." Jeremiah 29:11 My prayer is that God WILL Bless America!!!!!!

~~~Halloween Party~~~

We went to a Halloween/Costume Party Saturday night and had the best time. All the adults costumes were so great. We brought our kids in costumes and they had a blast.
Spent the evening around a fire sitting around and talking with friends.
I think it may be the first time that I have dressed up for Halloween in my adult life! We decided it would be an annual event. This was with our Sunday School class, we have such great friends who are just a blast to be around.
The BEST costume hands down was of our friend Jackie, who dressed up as Joe the Plumber. I laughed all night--and still can laugh hysterically when I look at the pictures of him. I posted the pics from the party on my facebook page.
I will have to post the picture of Joe the Plumber, Sara Palin and John McCain; especially since election day is tomorrow!!! Here are just a few of the pics that I made, there were too many to post them all. My friend, Hope was the best Snow White and her husband was Prince Charming. Jessie and Kelby were awesome pirates; and here's me and 'Stef the Ref'.

Happy Halloween!!!

Halloween has been very eventful so far. Started out my day with my daughter's class for breakfast, they were having "Muffins for Moms" day. Madison always enjoys me coming to school when I have the chance, and of course I do too!! There were lots of Moms there, but I would say close to half of her class didn't have Moms there. I always feel sad for those kids whose parent's can't make it.
I later picked up pizza for Logan's class party and spent an hour or so with his class. Then, went back by Madison's class for a short time while they were having their class party for Halloween. Enjoyed my day at school!
Later, we went trick or treating with my friend Jessie and her two boys Adin and Andrew. Weather was great, made a lot of stops, and the kids had a great time.

GA Fall Party

Madison's GA class had their fall party at Mrs. Lisa's house last night. They had hotdogs, smores, and cupcakes to eat. Then we went on a hayride, haven't been on a hayride in many, many years! I remember getting ambushed on hayrides in years past-so glad this was uneventful. It was cold, but we were all snuggled up together and with our fleece blankets around us. When we got back from the hayride,the girls broke off into teams and had to go around in the dark, with just a small flashflight and find pipecleaners that were their team's color.. These were attached to trees, or hedges all around the yard and house. It's not as easy as it sounds to find these in the dark. Some of the pipe cleaners had plastic spiders attached to them. If you found one with a spider attached-these were worth more points. The team with the most pipe cleaners won--our team won with 41 points! yeah. What was funny, was while on our search you would hear little girls yell out "spider" with excitement. We are terrified of spiders in our household; so normally when you hear "spider" yelled loudly it is in fear-not excitement. I couldn't help but laugh at that thought.

1st place!~~Flag Football

Logan's flag football team (coached by his dad!) won 1st place in the league championship! They played two games back to back in the 40 degree temperatures.
Madison and I watched the game intently sitting in our vehicle on the 30 yard line (which is like the 50 yard line in real football) so we had "great seats".
The boys were given medallions after the game, yet I had to practically beg them to pose for a team picture afterwards!! After the team picture was made, they "tackled" Mike to the ground and the entire team was on top of him. I said it was a good thing there wasn't a cooler of Gatorade nearby or else he would have been frozen for sure.
Logan and his friend Brooks, pose with their medallions.

Slime~~Time!!

Our church had it's annual fall festival yesterday with a theme of "Slime Time". The kids play games and earn tickets to turn in for prizes. There was a mechanical bull, jello-eating contests, and our pastor presented a wierd science style message that was really neat! We had a chili supper afterwards. The weather was perfect, and everyone had a great time.
My niece and nephew, Hailey and Peyton stop to pose for a minute. Madison wanted her picture with Andrew, but I think he didn't like sitting on the hay! Logan is showing Adin his handful of slime!!! yuck..