Fall Party and New Kittens

This past Saturday we hosted a fall party for our connect group from church.  It was a blast, literally!  We began at 4pm with a little skeet shooting...which ended up lasting over 2 hours!!!  Several people had never even shot a gun before!  It was so fun to watch everyone.  Even Wyatt took a turn shooting! After we used up all the ammo, we moved on up the hill for a bonfire, some chili, hotdogs, and s'mores!  We had about 35 people come.

A couple of weeks ago while I was at our local dairy farm getting some milk, I picked up a couple of kittens and brought them home for the kids.  It took the kittens a few days to warm up to everyone.  Anna Lea, I'm sure, enjoys them the most!  She has been trying to think of names for them and finally told me the other day that their names were Flotsam and Jetsam.  If you are wondering where these names came from, let me explain...One of her favorite books right now is The Little Mermaid.  In the book their are two evil eels named Flotsam and Jetsam, so there you have it!  Now that the kittens are used to us, Anna Lea has been toting them around all over the place, one in one arm, one in the other.  I also caught the girls carrying them around in a zipped up gym bag, and told them that probably wasn't a good idea.  Later, after Anna Lea and Layla came inside,  I happened to look out and see the gym bag moving, and rescued poor Flotsam and Jetsam.  One day, Anna Lea ran inside very excited with one of the kittens and said "Moma, listen!"  and squeezed the cat in her arms, giggled and said, "it toots!"  I held back my laughter and told her that probably wasn't a good idea either.  These poor cats don't have a prayer...their names probably should have been Lucky and Chance instead:)

Layla had spirit week at school a couple of weeks ago.  Rob painted her face (of wich she was very proud) for school colors day.  Later that night he repainted it, and painted Anna Lea's and Wyatt's for the first home basketball game.  Layla and Anna Lea were probably most impressed with the cheerleaders (as was Wyatt;)