A Happy Halloween!!

Here they were, the Peter Pan crew.














































We went to a BIG festival at FBCWoodway, then came home for a party/outreach at our house. We had lots of people come and ate lots of good food! During the evening fun, Tinkerbell lost her wings, TigerLily took off her boots, Peter Pan rejected his hat, and the pirate puked all over himself. It was a FUN night!

A Pumpkin Story by Kayla.

Not long ago me and my family went to a pumpkin patch in a town called Floydada, its in Texas.




















There was a big red barn where they sold alot of pumpkins.











The pumpkins came from a real pumpkin patch that was right next to the barn. The pumpkins grow from the vine, and the vine grows from the ground. My family helps grow this patch.


































There was all different kinds, colors and shapes of pumpkins.









There was this beautiful shiny pumpkin, it shined in the sun!
















There was a grandma and witch pumpkin, and a bunch of different character pumpkins! My favorite one was the puppy pumpkin.
































We found a pumpkin that we liked best to take home. We weighed it, and it weighed 12 pounds!























Then we looked around, there was a car that was dressed up like a pumpkin too! We got tired and hungry and went back home.












We put the great pumpkin on our front porch.















Then it was finally time to carve the pumpkin. We carved it in our back yard. We made a scary pumpkin!












Silly Daisy, she kept eating the insides of the pumpkin, yuck!














We put it back out on the front porch, and put and candle in it. Then we lit up the pumpkin with a candle inside.















It looks very scary to me. What I like the most about our pumpkin now is it has a great big smile!





























I just know all the trick or treaters will be scared!

Halloween Preview

If you can only imagine.....

Family FUN at the Farm

We had lots of fun being with family. We took rides with the tractor, shot corn with a cannon, and found our way through a corn maze. Here is a pic of Papa (aka Granpa) and Granny with all the kiddos and a video of a tractor ride.

DAD

Doggone Good Patient

This is the sticker Emily is proudly wearing after visiting the doctor today.













Yesterday after climbing in the tree, she got bark in her eye- which led to her falling out of the tree suffering some scratches and bruises. Since then, her eye has been really out of whack, swollen and red.

The doctor's findings were a corneal abrasion. The cornea is an amazing feature to the eye. It acts as a shield to to eye, see picture below.
















So Emily gets to sport an eye patch for a couple of days and will endure eye drops 4 times a day for a complete healing.


She
is
proud
of her
eye
patch
and
proud
of her
sticker!

Recent developments....

Poor Taylor, he is teething and its hurting pretty bad.






















His two front bottom teeth have just poked through a few days ago.












Please pray they finish coming in quickly and his suffering will be no longer!

Curtains..and someone worth mentioning!

We are redoing the girls room to be more appropriate for 2nd graders! So, my sister in law Becca, aka Aunt Becca, made these curtains for the girls.
























We like these curtains not just because they are cute- they are also practical. Theres pockets on the curtains! The curtains are currently holding the girls webkinz and journals. What a great idea!!
















I cannot begin to tell you all how amazing Aunt Becca is. Not only is she a full time mom, but she has started a business called ALLINDIE DESIGNS. She makes things like jewelry, purses, curtains, theraputic rice pillows, baby burp rags, embroidery, belts, bandana dresses, candy jars, oh mygoodness and so much more!!!

You can view her business web page here, or order online here. And see more of her products here. She also has a family website like us, you can view it here. She is very talented, and very prompt with her work! I totally recommend Becca to any of you out there interested in getting a new belt, or curtains, or a rice pillow!

WE LOVE YOU AUNT BECCA!!

SIZE 4

WHO would have known, my 6 month old would be wearing the same size 4 diapers as his 2 year old brother??
























And of course
when you have
two in diapers-
store brand
cute Clifford
diapers will
work JUST fine!
I see potty training
around the corner!
(For the two year old - of course!)

These boys....

...giving their momma some lovin'!!











I love kisses from my little guys!

A sneak peek!!

As you may or may not know, Im impatient! And cant keep secrets!




















Click on the picture to check out a few of our NEW family pictures we took on Saturday.

They are posted on a great friend of mines (Charity) photography blog (Stephens Photography). She is AMAZING! Feel free to leave her a comment. Her business also has a great website, check it out here.

This webpage will be riddled with these pictures soon!!

Star Student

Emily
got to
be the
star
student
this last
week at
school.






At the end
of the week,
each student
in the class wrote
why they think
Emily is a star.
The teacher compiled
all the writings
in a book.








I took a few pics of some of the writings. PRICELESS! (Click on image to view full screen to read the writings better.)




















































This is definitely one of those keepers to store away in the hope chest with all the other approved keepers!

Elmo's World!!

This is
whats been
frequently
playing
in the
Strickland
home!

LOOK at this BIG boy!

What
can I
say??

The
boy
loves
to
eat!