Our Computer's Funeral and MORE

Oh, how we have grieved the loss of our old faithful friend, Mr. Computer.  He was already up in years.  Michael built him in 2003 from scratch.  I am sad to say that while I was on the Internet, I picked up a wicked virus that completely killed our machine.  Praise God that we felt the "need" to run a back up the night before!!  (Thanks, Holy Spirit)

 We have been blessed with a laptop from incredible friends!!!  But I just haven't gotten back into the swing of things like downloading photos and blogging.  In the meantime, we are saving to buy another computer.

On to family news....
My baby, Levi, has learned to crawl and sit up on his own!!!  I can't believe it.  He's now seven months old.  We started him on solid foods right after he turned seven months.  He is loving his new privileges and abilities.  Another part of his new development is that he is addicted to his mommy.  He will not let me leave him with strangers in church nursery.  :-( 

Joel has entered the scared zone.  He is afraid of the dark mostly.  We leave all of his lights on while he goes to bed, but we find our middle son often in the middle of our bed at nights.  That's one of those things I always said would never happen before having children.  Ha....now I am eating those words.

Clark is loving homeschooling.  Over night, he has woke up to a world of words.  He is constantly asking me to read and spell words for him.  He's reading basic three letter words by sounding them out.  And he is really trying  hard to read.  It's so exciting to see him develop as a reader.

Michael is loving his new job as an outside adjuster.  And we are enjoying the new company car!

Fall is in full swing here.  The colors are splendid and the temperatures are chilly.  Oh, how I wish I could freeze time and make it last longer.

Super Hero Party

I wanted to embrace my boys love of super heroes,

so we threw a super hero party and invited some super friends.

 

Sparkle, Super Baby, Spiderman, Batman, Luigi, and Batgirl  are ready for action!

The first thing the Super Hereos did was complete an obstacle course.  They had to climb stairs, slide down a slide, jump over a building in a single bound, jump over hot lava, walk over a balance beam, knock down a giant, crawl through a tunnel, and finally climb a wall and go back down.  Once they complete this obstacle course, I knew they would be ready for a real challenge.

Here's Batman and Luigi climbing over the wall.  This was probably their most favorite part of the course.

Here's our friendly neighorhood Spideman jumping over a building in a single bound.

Our heroes after the course just playing around.

After the obstacle course, we got an urgent call that Mr. Bad Guy had kidnapped some people and had them trapped in his evil lair.  Using lava safe kitchen towels, the supers worked together to cross hot lava to rescue the people in need.

Soon the water balloon bomber was caught by the somewhat wet superheroes.  He was handcuffed and wrapped up in toliet paper to keep the world a safer place. 

Mr. Bad Guy was very sorry and to repay society for his crimes, he allowed the superheroes to have water balloon target practice on him.  And that by far was the highlight of the day!!!

After the battle, all the super hereos had cupcakes and snacks to replenish their powers.