Cubs vs cards

Jeff was given tickets to the Cubs game for his birthday way back in March! We ate sitting enjoying free wifi while we wait for the game to start!!!

Down by the river

Spent a little time down by the river last week...I haven't done much with my camera lately so I took it along and snapped a few pictures..I accidently hit a button that did something totally different..this is the result.
The pictures make it look kind of calm, peaceful and relaxing...in real life it was warm and shallow from the heat and lack of rain.

MABC 2012 Volleyball Tournament

Bryn had some amazing spikes and tips!

Courtney spiking...

Over hand serve

Waiting for the serve

My niece, Courtney, spiking the ball

Suz ref-ing(who knows how to spell that anyway...)

An intense moment of the game...

1-2-3 stomp stomp stomp ACE!

It was a great day at the tournament!! Our girls finished 4th out of 18!

Live Animal Christmas Play 2011 practice

Alex and friends...waiting for practice to start....

Princess entering the market scene..

Narrator scene

 Tax collector scene

Mary riding the donkey to Bethlehem to pay taxes

Shepherd scene

Manger scene..it is amazing this year!!!

Wiseman scene

Bryn and Wyatt talking

King Herod

"Long live King Herod!"

These are just pictures from one of the early practices...A lot will change for the actual play!! Come see it ...this weekend...Dec10 at 11am, 2pm and 5pm..Sunday, Dec 11 at 1030am..

Christmas pictures....for fun

Fun with Alex

 Alex and I had a whole day at home together today...so we took a few minutes to go outside and play!

He had some fun ideas to try...

We were trying to get some good poses for a "football card"...

Good times.

An afternoon with a friend!

God is so good to give us good friends! My good friend Joyce came and picked us up this morning and took us on a tour of their property...we hiked and took pictures and visited and explored to our hearts content!!

There can not be a more beautiful spot for pictures than right here!!

We had an amazing relaxing afternoon out in the beautiful fall sunshine...I told her I had thought most of the fall colors were gone, but she found me some more!!

Lake Pfeifer...and to think I didn't even know it existed...she must know how i love to be by water!!

Driving down the dirt road...exploring...stopping on a whim to take some beautiful pictures of the fall colors..

Our lonely little tree....

This tree ....on a lonely dirt road in the middle of no where....had to be the highlight of my day! It was a bright glowing multi colored tree that just jumped out...I never would have found it, but Joyce was willing to explore all those little dirt roads!
Thank you Joyce for such a pleasant relaxing wonderful time!