pumpkin faces

We all got together Saturday night at Shaney's home to carve pumpkins.

Shaney & Casey were busy picking out the pumpkin seeds so they could roast them while we carved the faces.

Cody was, of course, the life of the party.
After tormenting all of the children there by throwing knives into all of the pumpkins, he thought it would be funny if he put some red food dye in his mouth & scare the cousins like he had been punched in the mouth.

Little did he know the staining power of this dye.
As we were all laughing, he was drooling red coloring down into his goatee,
Shaney was getting him some hydrogen peroxide hoping that he could brush with it so his teeth wouldn't be stained!
After it was all said and done he had some very pretty bright
cherry red lips.
He commented that he wouldn't be able to teach his Sunday lesson now (secretly, I don't think he felt too bad about that!) haha

Ellie was elated with her finished product!

Sam & Dillon had fun in designing their pumpkin faces,
but mostly in handling the carving knives!

Bailee & Ash had fun too!

happy halloween!!!
(sorry, Whitlee & Oakley for not getting pics of you! I was holding the baby & didn't keep track of who I got!)

my little helpers . . .

Look closely!
Here's Oakley &

this is Ashlyn.
They perched themselves up in
the apple trees to
reach the high ones!
They were so helpful.

Now these 3, on the other hand,
look like trouble!

We just love him!

Dillon Visits the Fire Station

Dillon went with Mary to the fire station. Mary said he asked all sorts of cool questions. His main one was he wanted to know how to get the axes out of their cases!

...some of our recent shows

Harvest Time In The Philippines

It is rice harvest time here. If you think the grain trains and the spud trucks are a pain-They use the road ways to dry the rice so we are limited to one lane of traffic. Sometimes you have no choice but to drive through it and everyone takes it in stride. The Carabao are busy hauling the rice from the fields.

No wonder this poor little horse is so tired. I tried to ease his burden by buying a basket.