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Tuesday, October 30, 2007

These Are a Few of My Favorite Things...

Fall is my favorite season. I love how it feels outside when air gets just a little crispy and we get a break from the sweltering Texas heat! I love all of the different smells of fall, and I love the fact that that once fall is here, Christmas is just around the corner! Here are a few of my favorite things about fall:



Pumpkin Bread! One of my best friend's moms, Miss Pat, gave us her secret Pumpkin Bread recipe, which is absolutely amazing! I didn't really even like pumpkin things until I had this bread! I have started making it every fall. This year my mom also bought me this cute loaf pan that makes the bread mold into she shapes of pumpkins and leaves...so cute! The picture doesn't do it justice. The best part of the bread is the yummy caramel icing on top. I think I might go get a piece right now!


I love being around a fire on a cool night. Last year, for Kevin's birthday, my parents bought him a chiminea. We love building little fires in it and sitting on our patio with our dogs. Here we are enjoying the first fire of the season with Chris and Jill, Kevin's brother and our sis-in-law. Our nephew, Fred, enjoyed burning things in it before he had to go to bed. We burn sticks and branches out of our yard, so it helps keep our yard clean too!



This is one of my favorite fall smells, my Sweet Cinnamon Pumpkin Wallflower. If any of you are looking for good fall scent, this is it. It smells just like you have a pumpkin pie in the oven. Yummy!


I thought I would try to take a picture of Abby and Chloe in front of my hay bale. I like fall decorations, too! I think I should have bought another mum or two for this hay bale, but oh well. As you can see, Abby is only one who would come close to being in a picture. Chloe was running around the yard eating stuff. Abby has always been our star dog. I know that you're not supposed to have favorites, but Abby is our favorite. She looks like she's being a little snobby in this pic with her nose stuck up!


One more favorite thing is the "Homecoming" scent by the Tyler Candle Company. I know you've all seen these in stores, but they are made about 45 minutes away from us, and the new (I think it's new) Homecoming scent is great!


Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Busy Weekend!

We had a fun but busy time this past weekend! Kevin had a Family Retreat (where all the families of Heartlight kids come for the weekend), so he had to work Saturday and part of the day Sunday. I also had to work on Saturday...yuck! However, we had a good time with Kevin's brother and our sister-in-law and nephew who came and stayed with us on Friday night. They are leaving in December to go to Rwanda on an internship, and then are moving there next Nov-Dec to do full-time mission work. We treasure all of the time that we get with them!

Then, on Saturday night, we had the pleasure of having Paul and Julie McMullen stay with us! They are our friends who live in Washington right now and are preparing to go to Vancouver, B.C. to do church planting. Alpine is their supporting congregation, so they were here for Misisons Sunday. We love you Paul and Julie, and are so glad we got to spend time with you!



Tuesday, October 2, 2007

Bow Season Begins

Many of you may not be aware that bow hunting season (for deer) started last weekend. Many of you probably do not care. Before I married Kevin, I didn't know that people killed deer with bows, but apparently they do. I would not really care about learning anything about all this if my husband didn't love it so much, but it is fun to know enough to share in his excitement. Kevin has been acting like a giddy kid for the past several weeks as he has gotten all of his camo out (even though it's too hot to wear most of it) and has bought things like buck urine and scentless deoderant.

Kevin and his two friends, Ben and Blake, took a three day weekend to go to central Texas. They had a great time, but unfortunately didn't have much luck. Ben did get a pretty doe. I'm sure the fact that they did not get any bucks this weekend means that they'll just have to go back several more weekends to try again! Here are some pics from the trip...

Blake and Ben, doing some ritual that they have for the person who kills the first deer...


Kevin, looking a little bit frustrated.



Ben with his first deer (this was his first time to bow hunt!)