HodgePodge

I actually, believe it or not, uploaded these pictures about a week ago, but just now getting to posting them and writing about them. It's a hodgepodge of randomness over the past month or so...

Painting our pumpkins for Halloween.

Sharing Fall Festival with some friends.

Having a play date with our good friends Matthew and Rachel.
Matthew, being influenced by Stone, dressed up in his firefigher's costume too!

One of my favorite shots of my little man.. loving the Fall foliage behind him.
(Notice the "I voted" sticker on him... he wore it for me!)

Aunt Kerri came to visit the first weekend of November. We loved having her around!

Playing with GiGi in his big black truck.

Stone in a firefighter truck at a consignment store. He would have LOVED to have
that at home, but we don't need another bed!

Baby Vitoria (see more info after the pic).

This is a horrible picture (that I took) of my friend's baby just a couple days after she was born. I'll have to get some better ones on here. Anyway, this is the friend whom I helped paint the room pink stripes and my MIL helped get the furniture ready etc. Her daughter, Vitoria, was born on Oct 28th. She is cute as a button, but I actually haven't seen them since the day I took this picture... been so busy and I also know how you need time to adjust to having a newborn in your house. Plus, her parents are here to help, so I am trying to be mindful of that. Anyway, it was fun to see her and we are all thankful that she and her mom (Alcidea) are doing well.

Engineer Stone

Isn't he the cutest thing ever? My SIL Meredith got Stone this train engineer dress-up outfit for his birthday and somehow my MIL got him to put all of it on AND take a picture! He'll wear the hat with no problem, but doesn't particularly like to put the scarf or "overalls" on. (Thanks Aunt Minnah!!) It came with a lot of "extras" like the walkie you see in his hand, a pocket watch, wrench, and tickets to board the train, along with the hat, scarf, and overalls. Anyway, I was quite amazed at my MIL's ability! I can barely get him to put his regular jacket or firefighter's jacket on before we head out the door now, much less anything else dress-up!

So, as usual, I've been a blogger SLACKER. Maybe it's because I'm so addicted to Facebook, but that's still no excuse! What's going on lately with us:

Kevin's job continues to get crazier and crazier, but not bad like it has been in the past. It's all actually good, just so much thrown at him at once that he's been working LONG days just to try to catch up. However, we are thankful!

My job as a preschool teacher continues to be pretty fun. Stone is doing great, although his teacher recently resigned to take another job as she needed a bit more money for her family and found something that she has more of a background (and degree) in. She's now a marketing director for a local CFA!! This means free food for me!! Ha ha ha! She LOVES Stone however and misses him and he misses her! We plan to keep in touch, as we became pretty good friends since working together. Our director continues to search for another teacher and she thinks she's found someone. In the meantime, the director has been filling in, so Stone and the other kids have done quite well adjusting.

As for me, even though I do like my job, I also continue to look for either another part-time job or something full time. Nothing yet, but we know God will provide.

We finally have found a church that we like well enough to continue going to. I don't think either of us are "sold" on it yet and we might not ever join it. I say never, but really, we are just leaving it open for now. We've only been there for a little over a month, so we want to continue giving it a chance. Stone has actually adjusted well to his class and miracle of all miracles, gets excited to go in when we drop him off. Wow... We like the worship and even the SS class we visited, which was "okay." However, neither one of us are convinced this is the place we're supposed to be. So, we just take it week by week and continue to pray about it.

We continue to have fun hanging with K's parents on occasion.. Stone LOVES being able to visit or them visit us and it's so nice to have family nearby. We are thankful!

I think that is all for now.. we continue to stay busy with friends, work, etc. and for now, are trying to continue settling in to our "new life" here. Might post more pics later, whenever I get to downloading them!