We harvested pumpkins…and made pumpkin butter …yum!
Click HERE for the recipe
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Taste testing…
The results of hard work and goopy hands…
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Going to the Church Harvest Party Outreach….as a Cowboy(last minute change from Knight as he wanted to be the same as his cuz), Princess, Tiger, and kitty
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Harvesting the BEAUTIFUL leaves…making them into wreaths! A very easy and fun craft to do …and a wonderful gift to grandparents and neighbors
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Instructions: Go for a fun nature walk picking up sticks, moss, leaves, pinecones etc…Cut circle out of middle of paper plate. Paint brown. Hot glue the nature on!
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Close ups
Close up of the tiger
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Gotta get some excercise in sometime…Selah’s princess dress found at Goodwill for $4, has become the only thing she wants to wear…I finally told her to put it in the wash and wear something else after 2 days…then as soon as it came out of the wash it was back on :-/. I can only handle the light pink color for so long…we’ll see how long I go until it disapears…by accident of course :-)
The LONG awaited detail pictures of Joel! Finally got it completed!!! I wish I could have done this for all my kids…soooo cool! I would like to do this proffesionally someday
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Ready for the BIG tub with BIG brother!
I love the look of nice clean bathtub water!![October 09 035 [Desktop Resolution] October 09 035 [Desktop Resolution]](http://gkbolivia.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/october-09-035-desktop-resolution.jpg?w=300&h=225)
Where is Essie? Playing Hide-N-seek with K and S. I went into the garage and this is the first thing I saw the other day.
“I found my feet and I am SO HAPPY about it!”![October 09 058 [Desktop Resolution] October 09 058 [Desktop Resolution]](http://gkbolivia.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/october-09-058-desktop-resolution.jpg?w=300&h=225)
Essie wore this outfit when she was 2!![October 09 095 [Desktop Resolution] October 09 095 [Desktop Resolution]](http://gkbolivia.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/october-09-095-desktop-resolution.jpg?w=300&h=225)
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Notice the “art display” across our wall, complete with mini clothes pin and fishing line ! Thanks Mandy ![October 09 079 [Desktop Resolution] October 09 079 [Desktop Resolution]](http://gkbolivia.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/october-09-079-desktop-resolution.jpg?w=300&h=225)
Poor Gabe’s been up most of the nights with Joel as he is still coughing pretty badly at night. Gabe began to go back to work/volunteering stuff now though…so my turn to be up at nights :-/. Gabe has begun a sub relief job for a youth guidance center near here on Mondays and other days/nights he is needed. He is also working a temp job recruiting migrants into an education program in Sandy and Estacada…not many hours per week, but some. THe rest of his time is spent volunteering one afternoon for PREP 4 Kids, Bible study with Hispanics one evening, Spanish church another evening, another Bible study, we are going to begin a coaching class here soon with “Marriage Teams”, replacing windows in this house, building a storage shed to put our stuff when we are gone, and preparing presentations for churches on Bolivia… (He will be leaving for San Diego on Monday). Life is definitely interesting, if not a bit stressful as so many things are “up in the air” right now. So glad that we have God to lean on when everything else seems to be going crazy.![October 09 069 [Desktop Resolution] October 09 069 [Desktop Resolution]](http://gkbolivia.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/october-09-069-desktop-resolution.jpg?w=300&h=225)
Joel likes to stuff this plastic chain piece into his mouth and just leave it there…looks rather funny.
First thing he grabs at every morning…loves sticking them in his mouth while making a growling sound and chewing on them.
Come on, who on “Pride and Prejudice” does this look like?? ![October 09 090 [Desktop Resolution] October 09 090 [Desktop Resolution]](http://gkbolivia.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/october-09-090-desktop-resolution.jpg?w=497&h=662)
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poor Joelie has been so miderable…it might seem weird to take pics of him with the nebulizer on him, but he was so cute and calm while it was on…after he found out that he could not eat it while it was over his mouth. So sad hearing him coughing and wheezing so much
On this gorgeous Saturday we are still sick and stuck inside, yet outside our front door God has given us a beautiful fall sight! I have got to say I have been pretty bummed today as it was the day we had planned for months to go to my Aunt’s house in Washington with just my sisters and my mom and little Megan and Joel…we were to have a great time crafting christmas crafts. I was sooo looking forward to it….but alas I will try and enjoy my Aunt’s blog of it
Fasinated with crabs…and sand (Essie would hurridly grab a handful of sand as soon as we got on it and would hold onto it in both hands as if she had in her grasp the last sand on the beach. It was pretty funny! Here is Essie Flying her dollar store kite…fun while it lasted ![July 09 3 214 [800x600] July 09 3 214 [800x600]](http://gkbolivia.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/july-09-3-214-800x600.jpg?w=225&h=300)
Looking for jelly fish (We found one part of one and I told Kaleb to grab it…smart mom, I know… why did I not grab it?? Well Kaleb got stung and since I had heard that peeing helps the sting he tried that…seemed to help ![July 09 3 274 [800x600] July 09 3 274 [800x600]](http://gkbolivia.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/july-09-3-274-800x600.jpg?w=497&h=372)
Tunneling
stretching Taffy
watching the taffy making process
Yummy!
camping at the beach…hobo stew![July 09 3 181 [800x600] July 09 3 181 [800x600]](http://gkbolivia.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/july-09-3-181-800x600.jpg?w=497&h=372)
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One of the few really relaxing moments that I remember this summer…
Kaleb got pretty good at flying the kite
naptime at a VERYwindy beach! You can Just see Joel’s fro sticking out from the blankets ![July 09 3 239 [800x600] July 09 3 239 [800x600]](http://gkbolivia.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/july-09-3-239-800x600.jpg?w=300&h=225)
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Silly Selah
Kaleb and Selah getting wet…
and COLD!
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It was a fun, yet cold and windy couple days at the beach!![July 09 3 363 [800x600] July 09 3 363 [800x600]](http://gkbolivia.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/july-09-3-363-800x600.jpg?w=225&h=300)
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Painting finger nails…and for the picture above of mima with Essie and Selah : Oh the sights, SMELLS, and SOUNDS of the 4th of July fireworks… ![July 09 3 121 [800x600] July 09 3 121 [800x600]](http://gkbolivia.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/july-09-3-121-800x600.jpg?w=300&h=225)
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Aunt Bethany Lynn making sure he does not fall too far if he starts to go…![P1050731 [800x600] P1050731 [800x600]](http://gkbolivia.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/p1050731-800x600.jpg?w=300&h=225)
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