Lovin' Fall

Fall is our favorite season, and we will miss seeing the leaves change colors.  I found some cute Fall decorations for the front of the house:

Rustic, metal pumpkins and the girls each made a scarecrow.

 

I'm so glad Kylie did this on the lawn and not in the driveway!  I could barely see her.

I know these are a few weeks late, but our family had some really fun costumes this year.  Paul looked so much like Jack Sparrow!

 

Jenna the pirate.

Lana the Geek.

Kylie the Avatar.

We carved pumpkins late this  year, and attempted the Ph.D. level of carving.  Next year we will just stick to faces!

 

The little one is always so dramatic.

                                                        I agree with Kylie's face.  Gross.

 I don't know what I was thinking, attempting to carve a spooky house scene and a spider in a cob web.  I wasn't focused, I was frustrated.

 

All our hard work on display...Yes, mine is the easy scary face to the left.  Now that I look at it, the pumpkin really looks like a sad pumpkin.

Good news, then bad news, then good news again

It has been a roller coaster of a year for our family.  Between trying to sell our house, moving to another state and trying to have another baby-we have been a bit stressed.  We were so excited to get a contract on the house back in August to have the buyers walk away a few weeks ago.  When we heard the news we thought for sure we were going to live here forever!  I was feeling really discouraged and didn't know what to do, I felt like the economy had left us with very few option.  But....we continued to pray....and hope....and we have a second buyer!! Yipee!  They offered more than the first buyers so it really is a miracle that we are in such a good situation.

Our kids continue to amaze us with how fast they are growing.  Lana is growing so fast her body can't keep up.  She recently dislocated her knee.  She missed her first Cheer Squad game and pictures, she was so sad.  She is now in physical therapy to fix the issue.
Before:(we thought it was really funny that they had to give her an IV of morphine to calm her down enough to set her knee, and she was wearing a "drug free" ribbon that day)

 

 After:

Lana at the Orthopedic surgeon's office.  She'll be in physical therapy for 4 weeks and then they will determine if she can finish the Cheerleading season or not.