IT IS TIME TO PICK SOME APPLES!

Last Friday we took a little field trip to the Apple Farm (that is what I call it, I'm not sure of the exact name). We had such a great time. The kids got a little bag for themselves and got to pick away. The only problem.... they wanted to taste everything they picked. We told them they could eat an apple... Addie thought she could taste everyone. I bought several apples with bites taken out of them :-) It was cute! The place had fresh slussies and hot apple pies. We each had a slussie and it was wonderful. It started to sprinkle right as we left so the weather was nice... perfect Fall weather.

CAMPING

We went camping this past Friday night and had such a great time!!! A friend from church invited us and we went for a night. Several other families
joined us as well. We had a great night. It was such a beautiful day. When we got there the weather w
as PERFECT. Then that night it got chilly. We had to wear sweat suits (which I love). During the night my feet felt like ice cubes! It was a great time. Addison talked most of the night so we didn't get much sleep but that's alright. I didn't mind so much. She was clapping and singing and talking up a storm. We let Avery bring two friends and they stayed in a tent together. In fact, they put their own tent up (with the help of a few other kids). I was so impressed (I took pictures of it!). That night we all sat around the camp fire and roasted hot dogs and made smores. Then the next day we had a WONDERFUL breakfast. It was such a sweet time. I really enjoyed it. The kids didn't want to leave (I didn't either!).

The Adventures of Paddington Bear

Avery's Children Lit class is doing a class project. They are all taking turns taking home Paddington bear and letting Paddington live life with them. Then they are going to write a book about the "Adventures of Paddington Bear". Paddington has gone with us to dinner at a friends and today Paddington had a tea party with Avery and her friends, Tori and Audrey. Poor Paddington has spent a few days in his suitcase. It's been a busy week.... sorry Paddington.
The boys in the bottom picture are 2 of my friend Robin's 4 boys (Braden and Westin). The girls in the picture with Avery are her buddies, Tori and Audrey.

VOLUNTEERING AT BALL CAMP

(CLICK ON PICTURES TO SEE THEM BETTER).
Today we had our church service serving a school in our community. Ball Camp Elementary is the school our church adopted this year. We have had several Saturdays that we
have met up there to do some clean up around the school. This morning we met out at Pelissippi (where we have service) at 9am and had a devotion time. Then we all loaded up our cars and headed to Ball Camp Elementary... kids and all. We served there for a few hours and then headed back to Pelissippi to have a picnic by the pond. We had it catered by Blue Coast Burrito (which is a restaurant that just opened in town that some church members/friends of ours just opened!- GOOD FOOD!!!)

Growin' big and tall... and LONG HAIR!

We are growin' Aidan's hair out (not real long, he just usually has a SHORT buzz). His hair was damp after being outside for a few hours and had a natural spike to it. He is such a precious boy... He is talking so good now and loves to PLAY HARD. We just got home from a picnic and he played with all his friends from church. He loves to run and play ball. He loves to hang out with Ted. They have a blast together.

He is really into Spider Man and loves to play with cars. He saw the Cars movie and has a big wish list for all the car stuff they now have at the Disney store. Every time he sees it we say "put it on your wish list". He can sit for hours and play with his toy cars.

GO VOLS!!!

It's Football time in TENNESSEE!!! What fun it was to drive around town today and see all the ORANGE! It was every where... including ON US! Today was the first game for the VOLS and the game was here in VOL COUNTRY! The first 4 games are here in town. Ted was given tickets to the homecoming game for his birthday by our friends the Greenes. We will be going to the game on the 23rd and we are PUMPED! We love the way it feels in Knoxville in the Fall. We are excited for this football year. (Click on picture to see it better)