Fall Carnival

Fall Carnivals are so much fun!  Being in charge of fall carnival is my jam!  Our team planned a super awesome fall event for the whole school!  We had games, prizes, a stilt walker, balloon animals, and sweet face painting!

Committee members and college roommates=winning team

Bennett's last year for fall carnivals

Working hard made for hardly any pictures.  We looked fancy though!

 

Random Fall Fun

We had lots of fun and spent some good times together!

Henry had a project to disguise a turkey.  He wanted to make him into a scientist and I think we he did a great job!  We were able to do this during the day during school and in pjs because Henry was suspended for 3 days.  He brought his Swiss Army knife to school and showed it to friends on the playground.  My sweet little knife enthusiast.  I guess I never knew I needed to tell my children not to bring a knife to school.  So here's my PSA: tell your children point blank-DO NOT BRING WEAPONS to school.

My small group from our women's retreat got together for dinner.  I love these ladies!

Not sure how this happened, but we had to go tour middle school for Bennett!  Like what? How is my baby old enough for middle school?

For some reason he didn't want to take this picture

Neil and Sarah Kathryn had a fun daddy/daughter bowling night!

Her light up Halloween box!  YES!

Jenn's sister and BFF came to town so we had to have a ladies night at Rockin' Rodeo!  I love ladies nights!

Mama night!

Bennett has been loving his "Step-Up" ministry at church!  It is a special group for 5th and 6th graders only.

We had favorite book character day at school to celebrate our librarian's retirement.  We love a dress up day!

Harry Potter, Elsa, and a baseball player

SK and Davis!

 

Revel 2019

 The best local festival!  The Revel! 

We dug, shopped, ate, and played.  It's the best every year!

Magical Unicorns T-ball

Sister said she really wanted to play t-ball!  We have several little sisters all around the same age who have been going out to Little League for years to watch their brothers and now it was their turn!  

Whew!  The Magical Unicorns were tough!  They were fierce!  And they won every game!  I think it'll be our last year to play as SK didn't really feel like it was her thing.  

As always, we were the best dressed team.  Pink jerseys, unicorn socks, and awesome custom unicorn hats.  First step: look good.

Here's our girl up to bat!

SK and Adley Kate

Look at that swing!

So cute!

Unicorn themed snacks for after the game: yes, please!

Lucy and SK

The hottest coach around: Neil!  He owned it!

Henry and year round swim

Henry "decided" to do year round swim.  By decided, I mean he hates swim the least and he needs exercise.  Henry would be content to play video games all day, but his whole demeanor changes once he finishes!  

This is his first meet with his Christus crew! 

Hudson and Henry

We love cheering you on, Henry!

Bennett's last grandparents day!

Bennett's last grandparents day was super fun!  All 4 grandparents came to celebrate with him!  Nana and Granddad even brought lunch to Henry and Sarah Kathryn.  What a special day!

 

FUMC Women's Retreat

The weekend we've been planning for a year is finally here!  Our FUMC Women's Retreat!   This retreat was just what I needed to feel recharged and refreshed.  The theme was "rest" and boy did we get some rest in!  

I was honored to be on the planning team with some amazing people.  We had 2 missionaries fly in from Costa Rica and Romania to speak and pray and they really brought the word!  It was just so uplifting to be in their presence.

I got to arrive early to help "set the stage" and do a mic and music check.  A microphone is my love language.

Ashley (one of the most amazing godly people ever, Stefania (from Romania), me, and Sweet Yolanda from Costa Rica)

We put these on each lady's pillow before they arrived

We had lots of small group time and it was just so good to be together.

Look how sweet!  ladies able to relax and rest while looking at the lake

The breakfast at Pine Cove was out of this world!  I had to send this pic to my breakfast buddies because they know I'm an oatmeal junkie!

When Ashley and I started talking about the retreat-we both started praying that 20 ladies would want to join us.  We didn't tell each other this number until later and we ended up with 72 ladies!  We filled up the whole camp and we were just praying for 20!  God just worked it all out for us!

So happy to have my besties there!

Retreat team!

Girls from my Sunday school class: Emily, Crystal, Kay, Christy, Stacie, Brigette, me, Ashley, and Emily

Me with the fabulous Yolanda!

This is the song that was sort of the theme song for the weekend.  When I got in the car to leave-this was on!  Coincidence? I think not!