New house, nice neighbors, and harvest crusade!

Most of you probably know we moved to new house a few weeks ago. I guess I will use that as my excuse for not blogging in awhile. The house is a 1955 house and we are very excited to have the extra room for when the baby comes along as we were starting to out grow our 2 bedroom, 1 bath house. Anyways one thing that is exciting about moving is a whole new set of neighbors. After living here for 2 weeks the only person we had yet to meet was the guy who lives right next to us, only because he was in his backyard when Vince peaked over the fence…so they obviously started talking. So last night Vince thought we should take our little family and walk around to each house on our street and introduce ourselves and invite them to the Harvest Crusade. I thought that was a great idea (at first); I even thought maybe I could make cookies and we can bring them to each neighbor and welcome ourselves to the neighborhood. Luckily I didn’t have the time to make the cookies because when it came time to walk up to each house and introduce ourselves it seemed so out of place. It seemed so funny as we stood at the door of each house and me being 8 months pregnant. But Vince is totally into stuff like this so I went along with it although I was thinking I wanted to turn around and go home. I was just glad I wasn’t carrying a plate of cookies that would have been even more awkward. On a side note I thought when you move into a house neighbors are suppose to come to you and say “hi” instead all 4 of us were walking up and down our street to each house. So after the first few houses I realized this was going to take awhile….as each house was taking like 10 to 15 minutes to meet the people, invite them to the crusade and so on. So as we talked with our various neighbors the kids ran though the grass, picked flowers out of flower beds, drove their scooter across the lawn, and stood at people’s gates and made their dogs bark the entire time. Josiah even managed to crack and break one of our neighbors lights on there walk way that leads up to their house. And even as I’m sitting here typing this I can see Josiah’s transformer water bottle sitting on the window ledge of the lady’s house who lives across the street. I guess he set it there last night and there it sits. So we definitely welcomed ourselves to the neighborhood and I’m really glad we did, it ended up being fun. Although it was kinda awkward at first it was worth it to be able to invite them to church and the crusade and hopefully be able to share with them more in the future. So the point of this blog is go invite your neighbors to the harvest crusade or even church. You may be the only Christian neighbor they have!

Pumpkin Patch

I think everyone I know is posting pictures of a trip to the pumpkin patch so I thought I'd join along.

Here is the pumpkin Elisha picked out.

I took a ton of pictures of Josiah because he was being so funny. He would get down in each animals face and have a little conversation with them. We were cracking up!

Camping weekend

This past weekend we went up to big bear to go camping with a bunch of people from church. We had lots of awesome fellowship with each other it was such a blessing. Both nights we "marshed" marshmallow's (that's what Elisha calls it) and made s'mores. We had a great time of bible study and worship on Saturday night and then Sunday morning had a time of devotion as a group before we headed home. On our way up I decided to just enjoy our time outdoors and as a family and not be a germ freak. So as I'm thinking about that on our way up Josiah gets car sick and throws up in the back seat. So we calmly pulled the car over, stripped of his clothes, scooped the barf (sorry to be graphic) out of the car seat, cleaned him up with baby wipes and continued on our way up. No big deal:)

I wanted the kids to enjoy being boys and get as dirty as they wanted. It didn't even bother me to get into my sleeping bag that had dirt all over it from the kids. Or to go to bed without washing my face. We did the full camping experience and we really enjoyed it. So now that I'm back at home we are sleeping in our clean beds and are clean people again! Here's a few pictures!

Air show

We took the boys to the air show last Saturday. It was a great family day and the weather was beautiful. The best part was watching the kids faces when they looked up at the planes.

Chuck E Cheese for free

Over a year ago my brother and I took Elisha to Chuck E Cheese, and well he hated it. He was scared of everything. But then a couple weeks ago I was switching purses and found all the old Chuck E Cheese coins. So on our way to costco we stopped and used them. Elisha & Josiah both loved it and had a great time.

Vacation pictures

We were VERY blessed to be able to stay down at the beach for a week. We had an awesome time as a family. The kids both loved it and especially loved the sand. They were both eating it by the hand full. Elisha actually dipped his chicken nuggets in the sand. Sand dipped chicken nuggets. They were very crunchy :]


As much as I love the beach i'm actually really glad to be back home in smog filled Riverside :)

Beach Trip

Elisha and Daddy relaxing by the waterVince's foot, Elisha & Josiah
Daddy & his boys