Fall festivities...

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These last few weeks of fall have been filled with fun and friendship.
With temperatures cooling and leaves changing...
we are finding more and more autumn afternoons need to be spent at the park!
Exploring, playing, being silly, eating, laughing, swinging.
Thankfully...there are several families that have felt the same way...so it has been double (or triple) the fun!



Several weeks back we had the pleasure of hosting one of my oldest friends, Julie, and her family.
The Padens are missionaries in the Philippines and home on furlough.
We packed them all into the house and had a SUPER fun time for a week that seemed to fly by!!
They have four kids also...and so everyone had a buddy to hang with for the week!
And even though they have spent a huge chunk of their furlough in the van...travelling here there and everywhere across the United States...they still wanted to troop it up to the mountains and check out the fall colors.


Thankfully, on this mountain trip, the sun was shining brightly...we were warm AND dry!!


The kids picked more apples than we could ever eat...but had a blast doing it! :-)



The days were spent playing hard...and the evenings were spent gathered around the table recounting our unique stories of blessings and faithfulness. 
We were encouraged in this journey of faith by this family that has gone before us.
It was such a sweet week of fellowship...one that the Lord timed so perfectly into our lives.
Sadly, the week's end came faster than we were prepared for! :-(


Once they left it was back to the grind of school days!!!
Of course, I had TONS of apples to bake with...so we've had apple cider muffins, mini-apple pies, and yummy apple crisp!!!


Last weekend we had the opportunity to serve with Servants with A Heart
packing food packages for the hungry in Nicaragua.
 Although it was technically work...it was also fun!
The little ones decorated the boxes that the food was packaged in...
so get ready Managua...you have some amazingly creative artwork headed your way!!
The older kids helped measure food...seal bags...pack boxes...and cheer for each and every box packed!


The total meals packed for that day was 157,000!!!!
Our family was so blessed to contribute a small part to this ministry!


This weekend was Tyler's last flag football game of the season.
His team won the championship game and had an incredible season.
He was blessed to have a fantastic coach that truly pushed him to excel and become a better player!

The fall festivities just keep on going...

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