A Blast From Halloween In The Past

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Our household is completely ready for Halloween. Our home is being decorated as we speak, the costumes have been picked out, purchased, and received, and we are all ready for the camera to start snapping away. I cannot wait to publish the kids in this year's costumes.

Enjoy a picture of EACH year that Ty has been able to dress up so far. This year's costumes are by far the best, I think. This idea of 3 children is getting more fun and more fun as the days go by. Although I would have felt more than blessed with ONLY Tyson, I am so glad God blessed us with 2 more.

What a gift!

PS. For those of you who have ALREADY tempted my son to sin, by disobeying his mommy's request to NOT reveal what the house is dressing up as, shame on you. So far, I think ONLY one person got it out of him. He denied many other's temptations though.

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Ty Completes His First Chore of the Day!

Yesterday was the first day of Ty's second year at preschool. Darren and I are trying to instill scripture, morals, responsibility, manners, respect, love, and kindness into his life. We began a "responsibility" chart which includes all of the above on it (except scripture - this is done throughout the day, at home, at school, at Church, and before bed). The first chore, yesterday, was to check the mail. This is a picture of Ty on his way back from the mailbox. It looks like he's having a hard time holding all of it in his hands :O)

Out of a possibility of 10 stars yesterday, Ty received 8. He lacked in "teasing" his brother/sister all day. I am not even sure he does this on purpose, he just truly has no idea what being "gentle" is all about and if he's NOT gentle, we count that as teasing. He should have received 9/10 stars, but I reminded him that just because his "teasing" star was taken away for the day, didn't mean he could continue to tease, AND if he did, another star would automatically be removed for additional teasing.

His other chore: changing all the glade plug-ins throughout the house. What's it going to be today? Hmmmm, maybe the toilet bowls. LOL! Just kidding.

A Trip to Short Pump Town Center

On Friday, we left Lilah and Jax behind with surrogate mommy Kaitlyn and took a small trip to Richmond, VA. We were able to spend the day at the Short Pump Town Center where we shopped until our feet were tired and ate until our bellies were full. We enjoyed two meals: one at the Cheesecake Factory and the other at Chipolte. This shopping center is also fun for kids. It has a train that takes them for a drive around the mall (the mall is an outdoor mall) and it also has an ice skating rink outdoors. Ty enjoyed a scoop of ice cream from Cold Stone Creamery and got to shop around a really cool toy store. Darren and I were MOST excited to shop at the C28 store. The store sells some fantastic Christian apparel. C28 stands for Colossians 2:8 which states, "See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ." For anyone interested in purchasing some items at their store, you don't have to visit the store in person, just go to http://www.c28.com/. We purchased several items from their store and then the sales associate prayed with us before we left the store. Pretty cool! This trip was certainly no trip to the beach, by any means, but it sure was a nice deviation from it.