Bread days

Several months ago I decided to make homemade bread ALL the time. At first it didn't go so well over with the munchkins, but now they love it. I bought a loaf last month and Abbie complained that is was yucky and begged me to make bread because she didn't want to eat the store bought stuff. She even brags to her teacher and begs me to make bread for her. So, for Christmas for her teacher, that is what we gave her. But on bread days this is what our kitchen looks like. Talk about cheap entertainment.

Daddy's girl

Need I say more?

Piano Recital Take 1

Abbie and Porter have been taking piano lessons from my good friend, Martha. Not only is she so much like my older sister she is close and our families get along great. The kids adore her. Abbie and Porter practiced and performed wonderfully. I will eventually get the video posted but I have to get it from someone first.

halloween

The kids had a great time. They all chose their own costume. I think I spent $1.50 on all their costumes. Awesome! Two ladybugs, One lion, and one Super 'P'

Random Photos

Matt spent the last of October and most of November traveling all over the country for fellowship interviews. The first was during a conference and he went with one of his good friends and co-residents. We wanted to give a sign to Matt, but we didn't want to leave out Scott (Matt's coworker) so we made a sign for him too. We also made a little welcome home bag with goody's. I found out later that Scott hung his welcome home sign up in his bedroom and became addicted to gummy bears and laffy taffy. The kids were very excited to pick Matt up from the airport. He was delayed a few times so we ran around the very empty (thankfully) airport.

Applesauce

So last post was apple picking. Here are the wonderful yummy results. Don't you wish you could eat some. It is sooo good, better than anything you can buy.

Apple Picking

So each year since we have been here on the east coast we go apple picking. The kids are able to eat apples from the tree (as many as they can handle) and then we get a bunch so that I can make home made applesauce, yum.

This year we found a new place a little further away from our previous ventures apple picking. We decided this because it was so much cheaper than our old spot. We thought and planned for the perfect day. Unfortunately for us, it wasn't.

The day was overcast and rainy. But it was the only day Matt had off so we decided to go anyway. On the way down we were in a particularly rainy and windy section of the drive. Here there are divided highways with trees in between. As we drove I looked to the other side of the trees and I saw a mini van in pretty bad shape. There weren't any ambulances on the scene and Matt and I decided that at the next turn around we would return to see how people were. I said a silent prayer that I had atleast one pair of gloves in the car. Heavenly Father truly answered me because there, in the bottom of our pathetic first aid kit was one pair of gloves. It was truly horrific. Matt was the first medical person on the scene and one little girl had already died. He then had to work on three others, one of which was in critical condition. The most frustrating thing was that Matt could have done so much more but we weren't prepared with medical supplies, and the conditions were awful.

As the children and I sat in the car I pleaded that Matt would be able to help the boy who was so injured. After about an hour he slowly walked back to the car with defeat bearing down on him. There is only one other time in my life that I have seen my sweet husband so defeated (the other time was when he had to work on several small children that came in from a house fire many of whom died). He had tried all that he could but there was little hope for the young man. I have vowed that we would acquire the needed necessities that would be more sufficient than just one pair of gloves and a few band aids.

We decided to keep going and pick apples. I took pics of Chase which are super cute and all the kids had a great time despite the rain, mud, and cold.