Birthday - Game Night

For Nita birthday she and I went to Outback and then to Wegmans to check out the new store not to far from our place. Since her birthday was in the middle of the week we then on Friday evening had a birthday bash for her with friends, food and games!




Nita and I at the party





We had stuffed mushrooms, wings, yummy soft pretzels, veggies and dip, chips and salsa and lovely desserts!






















new game "What's Cookin"


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Her Mom and Dad and brother came for the party - supposed to be a surprise but she found out that day!

Family

Family here to visit and we did a photo shoot!

Ashlea

Allison

Anita

They say we look and act alike! :)


Thanks to you all for coming had a great weekend..lets eat more tortilla soup

Gas Prices

WOW never thought I would see the day that gas would get below 2.00...AWESOME

Past Weekend

My sister and family were here last weekend and we had a great time. I want to post pictures and such however this week was a busy one! Hope all of you had a great week

Outing with a Friend

Awhile back Dawn asked me if I would be willing to go and get her mums and pumpkins for her store "The Farmers Wife". I decided to ask Merry to join me since she loves fall and we have not done something like this in a long time. Off to Miller Farm's we go and what a lovely day and place it was and I have a feeling I will visit this place again. They have a potting shed there in which they do classes - anything from cooking, to making wreaths and potting plants. I am highly thinking of going there early December to do a wreath. We picked up lots of different sizes and colors of pumpkins and I am enjoying a few of them at my place as well.

Saying for the day

There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved. It is the finger of God on our shoulder.
Margaret Kennedy

Friends, Fall and Good Times

This past weekend Nita and I tilled up the garden and planted strawberries. Then we went to Olive Gardens and did some errands in town as well as stopped by our friend place to see the new baby again - he is so little whittle and cute! :)

Saturday went to a Close to My Heart party at Ruthie house - Emily was the consultant - Great Job Em! Was good to be there and and have some of Ruthie yummy breakfast - THANKS! Saturday afternoon I was trying to get last minute outside work done like cleaning up flower beds and mowing lawn before the frost comes on Sunday evening which it did that! hard one - maybe we will have a cold winter for a change.

Every fall Merry and I read a book:
Here is our favorite devotional

" You Don't Know You Want This"

Grace can be a hard doese of reality for those of us who are accustomed to paying our own way, to pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps, to earning a living by the sweat of our brow. Acknowledging grace means recognizing that I am not self-sufficent, that I have needs-deep needs for spiritual direction and meaning and significance for my life-and that I don't even know what to seek...or how. Receiving grace means accepting what I have not earned - indeed, embracing something I didn't even know I lacked.
My mother's wry sense of humor has helped me to learn an important lesson about grace. Every year at Christmas, at least one package arrives with the label, "You don't know you want this, but you do."
So it is with grace, with God's direction in our life. Circumstances change, and we resist the changes. Life moves on, but we want to stay where we are comfortable. And gently with a smile, God says, "Follow me, Come out: there is much you have not seen. You don't know you want this, but you do.
Penelope J Stokes