October 31

I am not one to Celebrate Halloween, when the kids were very small we would dress them up and take them to family, but I didn't get into very much. This year we are having a chicken stew for the church on Halloween night at a church members farm. We are having a blue grass gospel band, food, hay rides and a costume contest. I wasn't sure about the costumes because some people get upset, but we asked the church family, no scary costumes. What has been great about it, a lot of the older people are dressing up, sometimes we forget that as Christians we can still have fun and not represent the world. I love the fall with all the colors and I love to be outside smelling leaves burning, you know what time of year it is just by the smells.

I though these were a pretty representation of the colors of fall

carman's witch invitation

This weekend I went to see Carman. I was a little disappointed because I wanted to hear him sing a little more, but he did some preaching. I appreciated his message on "How are we to fight the devil, if we don't believe he is out there". So many people today do not believe that there is an devil and his angels roaming the earth. That he is here to steal, kill and destroy and unless we acknowledge this we don't stand a fighting chance. He will rob families, children and even churches of the peace and grace that God has to offer. So I picked this old video in this fall season to remind us that we have the power over the prince of this world because we are the "King's" real children.

Abby

This is my daughter-in-law, Abby. She is a girl we picked out for Josh when he was in high school. Joey was always very fond of her, so we mentioned her name often to Josh. He finally smartened up and called her. She is a very caring nurse who works at the cancer center in town. She is very girly in a lot of ways, but she is also very tomboy. She played sports in high school and was very good at it. She loves to go hunting with Josh.

Joey, Josh and Abby do alot of hunting together, this is from last year when they each shot a deer at the end of hunting season. She probably likes to hunt as much as Josh does, she just doesn't talk about it as much. Thank goodness!!!!

This is also from last year, one of her first bucks.

Yesterday she called Joey to see if he would go hunting with her. Josh was out of town hunting with her Dad in South Carolina, so she called Joey. Joey has been hunting in her stand on the days she has not been able to go and has seen a buck everytime, she goes and see nothing. So last night they went together, just the two of them, she spotted the buck first and then Joey "guided" her through. She shot a 9 pointer with her bow and arrow. I laughed and told her the deer smelled Joey in the woods and came to see him because they knew he wasn't going to shoot at them. After all the excitement was over I told Joey how wonderfully rare it is the relationship he has with his girls. He runs every other day with Audrey and goes hunting with Abby. He exclaimed how is that rare if feels normal to me. He really has no clue what a wonderful Dad he is, I have never experienced what my daughter or daughter-in-law has. They both have a Dad that not only loves them but likes them and likes to spend time with them. Abby's Dad is alot like Joey, he and Abby are very close. Audrey's boyfriends Dad, calls Audrey regularly and checks on her. So both are very blessed and probably think as Joey does this is how everybody is with there girls....

God You Reign - Lincoln Brewster

I love to listen to this song, no matter how you feel or what life is throwing your way, He still reigns forever and ever.

Friends since babies

This is one of Audrey's friends (Erica) since birth. They are just a month apart in age and I thought what a great picture of the two, beautiful women. This is one of Josh's friend (Brent) since they were babies. Two pretty handsome men. This is one of the only pictures I have of Brent since he is older with his eyes open. He has a tendency to close his eyes right before you snap a shot.

I saw these pictures today and thought of old friends we all have, these two for my kids have been around for 20+ years.