Fall Leaves, Fall Friends, Fall Festivals, and Fall Pumpkins!!!!

Well, we have had a very busy month in the month of October!! We have made our way to the mountains north of Charlotte and were able to see the beauty of God changing seasons literally right before our eyes!! It was a great day trip or us to just take time and see the beauty. The pictures are at the bottom of this blog entry... I uploaded them backwards. :) We decided as we drove that next year we would really like to head a little more north and spend some time in Virginia, where we have heard the leaves and colors are just unreal!!! But we were blessed to see the trees here and the amazing clouds too as you will see below!!

We were truly blessed to have our good friend Christiane FOX come and stay with us for almost a week!! She is heading to Sudan to be a Missionary there, hopefully sooner than later. You can check out her blog and her heart by clicking on the link to her webpage here on our site. She is truly a blessing to my life. God has crossed our paths originally at Briercrest Bible College about eight years ago and we have met up here and there along our journeys since then. She was able to fly here and share with our church, as well as the kids we work with weekly at AWANA. God had given her a heart for the people of Africa and He has opened the doors through a ministry called SIM to get her over there to use her nursing skills to bless people in the Name and love of Jesus Christ!! You will see pictures of her and I below at our annual Fall Festival at Mount Harmony! She was a blessing to have with us for a short while and I know that the people who spoke with her and met her were blessed as well!! We look forward to seeing how the Lord is going to use her in Doro, Sudan. If you know her, or even if you don't, please pray for her safety and that God will get her there finance wise when He wills!!

Below too you will see pictures of kids all dressed up who attended our Fall Festival at church this year! We dressed Ayden up as a little pumpkin the best that we could... people thought he was a cute pumpkin, and we did too!!!! We had a great time with all the kids that attended, the pictures that I posted are of some of the girls we have in our AWANA class, they were just too cute for words!! All the kids had their faces painted and well it was tempting to me to go get my face painted too!! I caved in and at the end of the night I got it painted!! It was one of those things that I just had to do...reliving childhood. :)

Lastly, the pictures right below here are of Min and I carving our pumpkins this year!! We did them a few days before Halloween and they actually made it this year without rotting... that happened t us last year. :) Min carved the Mary, Joseph and Baby Jesus pumpkin, and I did Jesus praying and the little pumpkin for Ayden with a funny face. We had fun, we did not do them free hand, haha. We are not that talented, but even when they are traced it is still tricky to carve out the small details!! Min is way better than me, he always does a great job on them!!!

Well we hope this finds you doing well!!! We have less than 30 days until Ayden is due to arrive!! We are excited and are feeling more and more ready to meet our son! Can't believe that we are already into November, time is doing it's normal job of going too fast right before our eyes!

We are looking forward to a restful month ahead... we will see how that turns out :) One week from today I go to the doctor for a physical exam and that in when they will tell me more details about where we are standing labor and delivery wise... and hopefully they will have a better guesstimate of how big Ayden will be when he arrives!! We will see, we just pray for a safe labor and delivery and a healthy baby boy!!!! Thanks for your thoughts and prayers and we look forward to hearing for you all and soon introducing our son to you!!!! Love from us to you!!!

Here is our carving process and the end result of our fun pumpkins!!!! We had a lot of fun doing them!!!

Here I am after the Fall Festival on Oct. 25th. I am 34 weeks here and still growing like crazy!!!

Christiane and I here at the Fall Festival!!

Danny Williams (He was a groomsman in our wedding) his neice Allison painted my face very pretty!!! It was a lot of fun!! The sign you see is Trunk of Treat... the kids trunk or treating and this is how they got candy that night!!! I think it is such a great idea!!!

These were the games we ran for a few hours that night, it was really fun!!!!

When we were at a lookout on the Blue Ridge Parkway, we randomly bumped into Danny Williams, Mom and Dad!! They are like are family here and it was just such a surprise to meet them randomly so far away from where we usually see them!!! Haha. It was a great picture opportunity!!