Happy October, It's fall y'all!

With the weather getting colder we sure thankful we moved in the new house this summer to give us plenty of time to meet our neighbors, build relationships, & get settled in. Looking forward to all the things this great month holds! Hoping to have a October potluck here, dress up w/ the kids for halloween, and maybe do some pumpkin baking and carving. Kind of my favorite things to do and now I have a little family of my own to do these things with, different from the 'normal' family of course but I wouldn't change it for the world. My housemates are so amazing. I've been sick with the flu this last week and they have really cared for me. We of course are missing Lauren, who is in Colombia with Christian Peacemakers Team on a delegation trip. Looking forward to her arrival home this Wednesday night! Just a little recap of the last months w/ some photos: The first weekend of September (Labor Day wknd) Hannah's parents were visiting from Portland & we had a BBQ at the house then the following weekend a little house celebration for Hannah

Mary Lou, Hannah, & Rusty (We LOVED having them visit!)

Hannah, me & Lauren

Rusty teaching Daniel (our neighbor) how to grill

Nevaeh fast asleep while we all outback BBQ'n

Last weekend, Saturday 24th was Gayle's birthday! Friday night Hannah, Gayle, & I had cake & watched a movie. We were inturrputed with a surprise guest, Eugene! He had prepared a magic show for Gayle's birthday, how sweet. Fingerpainting w/ the kids

Happy Birthday Gayle!

JeShawn painting a masterpiece

This weekend was quiet relaxing & full of wonderful moments. Sunday was the foodshare that we are connected w/ through LWA (Love Without Agenda) & Mission Year. From the food that we sorted & redistributed this past week I brought home lots of tomatoes to make homemade pasta sauce & try my hand at canning tomatoes, it worked! Also bake a homemade peach&raspberry cobbler from the donation. Yummy! Was another good weekend at the house. One last thing I want to leave you with; This past week a young boy in our neighborhood who went to the highschool across the street was killed. Here is the news clip: http://abclocal.go.com/wls/video?id=8368596&syndicate=syndicate§ion Go in peace.