Pre-Thanksgiving Activities

Hannah is keeping us busy with all her Thanksgiving activities. She was a Native American for AWANA on Sunday, November 22nd. Then her preschool had a little program on Tuesday the 24th. I ended up having to have a second D and C Monday (the 23rd) so I didn't get to go to her school program. But Aaron was great enough to take photos and video.

Job 1:21

"Blessed be the name of the Lord." Job 1:21

Last week at church we sang that song and even though it is one I've know my whole life for some reason it really spoke to me. It says,

When the darkness closes in, Lord
Still I will say
Blessed be the name of the Lord

When the sun's shining down on me
When the world's 'all as it should be'
Blessed be Your name

On the road marked with suffering
Though there's pain in the offering
Blessed be Your name

You give and take away
You give and take away
My heart will choose to say
Lord, blessed be Your name

Sometimes all the world is as it should be & sometimes the darkness is closing in and both times we still have to praise His name. I think Aaron and I have been through a lot this year some really great blessings and some expereinces we wish we wouldn't of had to live through. But at the end of the day, God sent His Son for us and that always has to be enough because He is Lord and even His name needs to be blessed.

Here we are 8 weeks after the miscarriage and still having a few health issues. I have never stopped bleeding so I've been to the Dr. for some testing and we were thrilled to find out last week that I don't need a second d and c. We are really praying for healing before next week otherwise I will have to go back for more testing.

Aaron's job is going good, he is currently in week 5 of 7 weeks of meeting new contacts (also known as door knocking), more training, and he just finished getting his insurance license. He goes back to St. Louis for more training the week after Thanksgiving and will be legal to sell financial services at that point.

I've been busy keeping up with the kids and sewing. Sewing is going good, I was a part of another church sewing event last week and as the holidays are approaching I'm hoping for lots of hannah's house orders. http://www.hannahshouse-hannahshouse.blogspot.com/

This weekend Gina Russo is coming in from Colorado and I'm so excited to see her. It will be so fun for a little girl time.

Halloween 2009

This year we had all kinds of events for Halloween. On Wednesday, Hannah's good buddy Hailey invited us to her church's Trunk or Treat. It was great, they did a Bible lesson first then let the kid's trick or treat in the parking lot from each person's trunk. Hailey was dressed as Dorothy & had a real puppy for Toto & Hannah was a lion, so we had a cute picture (above). At the church they had all the kids who were animals come to the middle and sing a Noah's Ark song. Hannah went right up and "roared" into the microphone every time they said lion-it was adorable.

On Thursday, Hannah had her class party at school. Then on Friday I took the kids to the library for Ghost & goul, where they had snacks like witches fingers, kitty litter cake & mice. On Saturday we trick or treated 2 streets in our neighborhood then took the kids to Chick Fil A for free kid's meals & playtime it was great fun and lots better than candy! You can see Joshua's "with eye patch" and "without" look-he was hilarious he LOVED dressing up. He would go get his outfit and put on his hat everyday after I took his p.j.s off in the morning-so he is a fan of Halloween.

Welcome Baby William

I was lucky enough to go see my friend Jenny in Tullahoma (about an hour away) to meet Baby William. He is SO beautiful, and of course Jenny already looks fabulous.

Harvest Hoedown

We went to the World Outreach Harvest Hoedown and it was spectacular! They had about 30 inflatables, live music, a preschool tent full of games, free popcorn & cotton candy and all of it with a Christian message-it's quite a production. We normally miss it because we are at Mary-Evelyn's birthday party. But this year we didn't head to Louisiana because Aaron is working long hours and every Saturday, so I decided to was too far to go alone with the kids for the weekend. We sure missed being there at her hayride, but had a great time here in TN.

The Pumpkin Patch

We took the kids to Walden Farm's Pumpkin Patch and just had a great day. They played in the wheat & corn station, went through the mini corn maze, enjoyed the petting zoo, and picked up pumpkins (Joshua was hilarious picking up one twice his size!).

Trip to Missouri

After Aaron passed the Series 7 & two weeks later the Series 66 (so proud of him) we headed to Missouri where he had a week of training, like a boot camp for new financial advisors. The kids and I enjoyed staying at my folks while he was at Westport in St. Louis. It was perfect timing because we were already planning to head to St. Louis for a wedding (Julie Balsman Maritz friend) on the 10th so this way we just got an extra week in town. So on Saturday the 3rd Desloge was hosting the Vietnam Veteran's Traveling Wall which is a memorial to all veterans that is a replica from Washington DC. It was neat to take the kids with dad since he served in Vietnam.

On Monday, mom was able to take off work and we headed up to the awesome St. Louis zoo. The kids loved it & then we stopped by on our way home to see our good friends the Joly's.

We had the chance to visit all my grandparents while we were there and also catch up with a few old friends. Laura (Sutton) Smith and the kids all got together-isn't Gracee so cute! She is like talking to little Laura.

Then on Saturday, Aaron and I went kidless to Julie's wedding reception and it was beautiful. It was so good to see her & Mike glowing, as well as catch up with some of the old Maritz gang. And in other exciting news, as we were headed out to the wedding my cousin Kellie came by to tell us her exciting news that she & Pete are engaged-so looks like we'll be back for another wedding soon!