what we've been up to...

This month marks two years of blogging for me, but I guess you could say I have the blogger blues. Just seems like no one else ever updates their blogs, so I just don't get on here that much anymore. Maybe it's because my life has been taken over by facebook and it's easier to keep up with people there, at least on a more personal basis.

Anyhoo, here we are with an update for the month of October. :) Ringo's training will be finished on Friday...praise the Lord!!! I know he will be glad, but I will be REALLY glad! Pray for him this week...he has tests on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. =S

Ringo got a break from studying last weekend, and we got some tickets to the "free circus" which means NOT the Ringling & Bros. or Barnum & Bailey, or whoever they are...but the other circus, the free circus. :D Looking back a week later, I'm glad we went because the kids will always remember it...at least until they get to go to a good circus, and then that memory will take over in their minds for the rest of their lives! Really though, they did get to eat cotton candy and see some things they'd never seen before, so it was a fun adventure for them.

Here are a few pictures of the kids at the circus...but something happened to me that has NEVER happened before. My camera battery ran out, and I had left the backup in the van cause it showed that the battery was fine. The battery died before the show even started! Oh well...







Here are some pics we took at the playground last weekend:

Bella braving the jungle gym...


Some dramatics for the camera...


She has just recently mastered the monkey bars...


Some b-ball with Daddy...


Evan wanted his picture taken upside down too...


He was just singing his little lungs out, motions and everything... :D


All Braden wants to do anymore is play football or watch football or talk about football. It's enough to drive me (not interested in football!) crazy. He loves every opportunity he gets to play catch with Daddy. :o)




And finally here are some pics of the kids dressed up for the mission banquet last night...