The Sweet Berry Farm's Pumpkin Patch!!!

We welcomed fall the same way we did last year, at the Sweet Berry Farm! This time we had the pleasure of having my parents with us. The girls had a wonderful time!

I took this same pose last year. Man, have they grown!

They had fun painting pumpkins...

and riding horses...

and this year we did the big Texas corn maze! These are our tickets that are punched showing we found all of the "lakes"! I think it took us over an hour to find them all!!!

New Blog Adventure...

I just started a new blog . . . Daily Devotions From A Girl Just Like You! http://dailydevotionsfromagirljustlikeyou.blogspot.com/

It is located under "My Peeps" as the first link. My goal is put together a daily devotion from the practical everyday stuff in my own life. I love devotions and felt moved to start my own in hopes of having fun. I plan on keeping it real, to the point, and entertaining at best. I hope you check it out and give me some feed back along the way!

Kyle is growing...and growing...and growing...

http://www.dsiaustin.com/Animations/Kyle05t.wmv

Cool Animation of what it may soon look like about a mile or two from our house...pretty excited!!! It is estimated to be bigger than South Park Meadows in South Austin...Love It!

Family Church Picnic and Water Baptism

This past Sunday we had a church picnic at a really cool place called Twin Oaks Ranch in Buda. It is a christian camp that you can rent out, and they had tons of things to do there. At the end of our day, Cami told me that she felt like she was on vacation! It was a lot of fun!!! Camille got water baptized in a very special way with our Pastor and long time friend, Chad's dad who is also a pastor, and Chad got to be in the water with Camille as well. She understands that baptism is a promise to God, and she truly has a heart to follow His ways. She is so precious!

Not only precious, but BRAVE! They also have a zip line there at the ranch that several of us tried out. As Chad and I were standing line, Camille asked if she could. I checked with the owners of the ranch, and they said she was good to go! I screamed like a baby, but Camille smiled the whole time and didn't even make a peep! She loved it! Those of y'all that have known Cami for awhile, know what a big deal this is. I guess she is on her way to turning 7 with zero fear! She is a total rock star!

Later we went out on a canoe in the river, and it was so beautiful and peaceful.

We have been at Capital Christian Center for about a year now, and we really love it. This was a very fun picnic and a very special day for our family!

For the rest of the pictures check out the link below:

http://picasaweb.google.com/chadandcrystal/200910Sept?authkey=Gv1sRgCPST08X59_n9kwE&feat=directlink

Cari saying "milk"

Click on the link below to watch a video of Cari saying "milk" in her own unusual way!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xE8luYxDR_4

I love this!!!

An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before, but had once failed an entire class.

That class had insisted that Obama's socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer.The professor then said, "OK, we will have an experiment in this class on Obama's plan".

All grades would be averaged and everyone would receive the same grade so no one would fail and no one would receive an A. After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B. The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy.

As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too so they studied little. The second test average was a D! No one was happy.

When the 3rd test rolled around, the average was an F. The scores never increased as bickering, blame and name-calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else.

All failed, to their great surprise, and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great but when government takes all the reward away, no one will try or want to succeed. Could not be any simpler than that.

Rock Stars for kids

Our Rock Stars!

Camille is starting to really get into music and she likes Miley Cyrus/Hannah Montana. She got that shirt the other day and wore it 3 days in a row. I finally had to tell her to "NO MORE...put it in the wash already!!!" She sings with every song she hears before knowing or learning the words.

Cari dressed up and told me that she was a mean pirate and then scrunched up her nose and said, "Arrrr!" I never knew a mean pirate that wore Barbie high heels and leg warmers on their arms until now!

I love my kids and their imagination!

Don't they look great!