Get out and enjoy it - Sunday!

I know, I know...I'm just now updating about last Sunday, but better late than never, right?

So last Sunday after church we hung out at home the rest of the evening...

Madilynn painted her pumpkin! And she loved it, of course..

Just wanted to share a little story about something Madilynn told me one day last week...It was first thing in the morning and I was making breakfast. Madilynn told me there was a spider above the cabinets in the kitchen. I saw it, it wasn't real big and it was light brown. Anyway I couldn't reach it at the time and I continued to prepare breakfast. She came over and helped me watch where it went, so when it got down low enough I could kill it. (Note - Daddy had already gone to work that morning) Meanwhile she tells me, "Don't worry it won't hurt us, God is with us". I just wanted to cry...I'm amazed at her knowledge of Jesus at her age and I'm just so thankful that even though she may not understand what it all means right now, she's learning those truths and storing them away.

After painting the pumpkins we decided we should get outside and enjoy the pretty mild temperatures! They were calling for cold, rain and snow starting Sunday night and we thought it might be the last mildness before winter.

Daddy was already out mowing and mulching all the leaves in the yard...

So we joined him and the girls swang...

played some tee ball...

good hit!

ran around the yard...

still running...

rested...

then swang on the rope...

Elizabeth even played ball a little...

It was 5:05 when we went out and it proceeded to get dark pretty quickly with all the clouds moving in, along with the time change. I'm so glad we got out there and enjoyed those 45 minutes though!

The time change has had quite an affect on us this year (more than I can recall in the past), for some reason my body now wakes up at around 4 and 5am and I've had trouble going back to sleep, and the girls have been getting up super early this week (well before 7, when they would normally sleep till 7:30 or 8)! I think by Friday we're finally getting adjusted! Hopefully this weekend will help us too...