Charlie Wickens

Last weekend, Monkey was watching the movie "The Incredibles" (for about the 38th time). Towards the end of the movie, Mr. Incredible does something rather....well, incredible, and the little neighbor boy on his tricycle yells "That was totally wicked!" Just as he reached that part of the movie, Monkey jumps to his feet and yells loudly "That was Charlie Wickens!" After we got done giggling, we all decided that we sort of liked that saying, and have now added it to our "list"!

Rescuing Dora

Monkey has once again been living up to his name. Over the past day or so, we have been finding all sorts of things missing and later showing up at the bottom of the laundry chute. Today topped them all! Seely went into the bathroom to discover a rather large puddle of lotion on the floor and splattered on the wall in front of the laundry chute. Being the wise big brother that he is, he stuck his head into the laundry chute to discover many, many squirts of lotion running down the walls inside, and a Dora doll stuck by the head about half way down. We immediately set out on a rescue and clean up mission, but found we had to be a bit creative about how we went about it, as much of it was past the point of our reach.

Finally, we were able to rescue Dora from her precarious position, though it was too late to spare her from being covered in lavender lotion.

Through many clever acts of engineering, we were even able to get most of the lotion off of the inside of the laundry chute! But alas, discipline must still be meted out to the one who endangered poor Dora and created such a huge mess (no matter how entertaining it was to his siblings!).

Harvest Dancing

On Friday, the 31st, we all headed off to church for the annual Harvest Fest. The kids have carnival games, and there is a Bible Walk where they go to different stations to gather candy creatively related to a Bible story. For instance, they were given Milky Ways after hearing the story of Creation, and how God created the stars. They were given Snickers after hearing how Sarah laughed at being told she would have a baby at 90 years old, and lifesavers after hearing the story of Jesus dying on the cross to save them. A good time was had by all. Seely dressed as himself and helped run the carnival games. Random dressed as a nerd by taping nerd candies to himself and using his father's nerd pajama pants as a candy bag. Lily was a doctor. Mango a princess, and Monkey was his hero, Spiderman.

The next morning, Lily and Mango had to be back at church early because the worship dance team was performing for a conference held at our church. It made for a rather busy, but fun weekend!

Home Again, Home Again

DH (dear husband) and I have spent the last three days on the shores of Lake Superior for our annual anniversary get away. We will be heading towards home in about 3 hours to free...er, I mean, relieve my parents of our five children. It sounds like they've all had a good time while we were away.

Before we do go, I'd like to post some of the many pictures we've taken of the view from our little cabin by the big lake. There is no way that any photograph can really capture the beauty and majesty of the lake, but nonetheless, we make valiant attempts every year to do so!

Thanks Mom and Dad for making our get-away possible!!!

I know, I know

I know....go ahead and say it....I've been a terrible blogger! Life has been busy and just "normal", which is good, so there has been a tremendous lack of blogging material! Here's a brief update on the fam...

Seely's foot seems to be healing up nicely. He has just one more week in the "boot" before he can go back to a shoe, and we will see the orthopedic doc's about a week after that to make sure things have actually healed up the way they were supposed to. He has had no pain with it really, beyond that first week, so that is good.

Lily and Mango were in a worship dance performance at church on Oct. 12th, with several other elementary, junior and senior high school ladies. They did a wonderful job and seemed to enjoy performing. The younger girls will be dancing again in December!

Don't they all look beautiful??????