Halloween

It's funny, because the last two years we put just as much effort into Kaylee's costume and making sure she "enjoyed" Halloween, but we had no idea how much our little girl would enjoy it now that she is older. With the encouragement of her older cousin, Conner, Kaylee quickly understood going to all the houses, knocking on doors, saying "Twick or Tweet", getting candy, and saying "Thank You." We managed to walk several streets (enough to retire poor pregnant Britt a little early) and had to fill our pockets with her candy to keep her Elmo bucket from weighing 10 lbs. As soon as one house was done and they were walking down the driveway, Kaylee would say, "Next door, more candy!" It is also amazing how unafraid she is right now of all the ghosts, goblins, giant spiders, and monsters - we will see how many years that lasts :) Anyway, we love our little Hula Girl and enjoyed watching her and our little Knight nephew on this fun night :)

Daniel's Office: Before and After

Well, it took about a month of work and lots of hours, but we are finally finished with Daniel's office and he has now officially started as of this week! It was a lot of fun (and kind of expensive), transforming this space from a plain white room to the office it is now. Of course, we owe credit to Shannon Roehr as well (okay...and you too, Andrew), as she spent lots of hours helping out with ideas and purchases (Andrew helped with the back-breaking work). Anyway, I know that those of you out of state will never get a chance to see it, so this post is for you :)

Pumpkin Patch

Cross Your Heart and Hope to Die?

In October, we enjoyed our 2nd annual Murder Mystery Party with the COC Bible Study ! That is right - we act out a murder on stage at Grace Community Church :) It is a lot of fun! This year we did a 1950's prom....we had 7 actors, including Daniel - who was actually the victim this time and "died" half way through by arsenic poisoning :0 There were about 55 people there and we are already in the works for next year and really enjoying doing this event with the study!

Great-Grandparents

Quite the performance :)

Helping grandpa get around...

It has been a blessing and privilege for Kaylee and I to set aside one day every other week to go out to my grandparents house and spend time with them. If God blesses me with another 60 years of life, it is like these 2 special people that I wish to be like. They are such amazing Godly examples to our family and such a joy to be with. I feel a special honor in that Kaylee gets to enjoy them too! She gets very excited to go to their house and evens starts yelling "Grandpa, Grandma" in the car as soon as we get off the freeway to go to their house. While there, she has found great makeshift toys.. such as the talking thermometer or the braille device that has buttons you can push. Grandma graciously tied strings to their chimes so that Kaylee can stand there and shake and shake the string while the chime goes crazy. There are many things that make this place special for her, but most of all: just being with her great-grandparents. She has recognized grandpa's need for a cane to get around and will now grab the cane and slowly guide grandpa to wherever she might want him to go - about every 2 feet she taps the cane to the ground. So far, she has not ran him into anything yet :) She has also put together that they make a great audience, as you see here in the pictures, she stands on the edge of the grass and sings, dances, and claps for them! It is very cute to watch. We appreciate them very much and just wanted to share with you all this part of our lives!