Sorry for the very late update this week. I am really busy preparing for a luncheon I am starting at our church which is going to be held the first Monday of every month. Monday, October 6th is the first one - just a few days away! It is a $5 all-you-can-eat soup & cornbread lunch for anyone in the community with all the money going to help hunger needs in our community. I am really excited about it and feel like I have gotten a good response so far...we will see how the first one goes and hopefully it will just grow from there. Besides getting ready for the
First Monday Cafe, we have been chilling at home since no gas stations in our area have fuel. It is pretty crazy. I was able to fill up yesterday with only having to wait maybe 5 minutes so I am good for another week or so. Hopefully it will get better soon.
Despite the gas shortage, we still went last Friday to an apple farm in Ellijay (most other moms canceled but we were fortunately able to go). Jasper enjoyed the wagon ride and petting zoo part of the tour, which was the last third of the tour. Unfortunately the first two-thirds of the tour involved watching a video, milking a cow, drinking apple juice, listening to talking cow head on wall of barn...all things that involve sitting which is not what Jasper wants to do, ever. He was most happy sitting on tractors until we got to the parts of the tour he wanted to do!
Below you can see his big boo-boo's on his nose & forehead from a fall on concrete the previous weekend. They healed in a week which is amazing!
Enjoying an apple on the way home
Today was the first day for sleeves and pants!
Jasper's new winter coat
Jasper is going to be a train conductor for Halloween so hopefully I will have some cute pics to post next week! Also this Monday is another First Monday Cafe so I have been busy coordinating that. We'll have more pics and news next week!
Walking around the Gold Rush Festival on Sunday (not as crowded as Saturday!)
We had some folks over for dinner on Saturday night - I'm sure Donna and others will have more pictures! Above are some of the gals and below are some of the guys - Alabama did win but it was a close call. Josh was obviously not happy with their performance.
On Sunday Aunt Christy & Uncle Matthew visited and we went to Burt's Pumpkin Patch. It was very crowded but beautiful & fun!
So Jasper & I went back to Burt's on Monday morning to try for some better pictures with pumpkins. But Jasper was not interested in sitting or standing still or looking at the camera. Oh well!
This was the best I could do to get Jasper, Caleb, & Gideon in a picture together!
Trying to get 5 kids under 4 to pose...hopeless!
Met my family for lunch on Sunday
There was no fire in the fireplace and Jasper kept saying 'No Fire.'
Getting buried in the sand!
I asked J to say Cheese and he did! (while smiling and looking at the camera - pretty amazing!)
Grandpa made Jasper a toybox and it is beautiful! Jasper's favorite part is the apostrophe in the words "Jasper's Stuff."
We visited some friends on Saturday who were staying at a cabin on Lake Rabun. It was a nice quick getaway for us in such a pretty place. We walked out the back of the cabin down a short trail to Minnehaha Falls.
Emma is a big sister so she is good at watching out for little ones.
Enjoying the fall weather outside
Yesterday was the first First Monday Cafe and it was a huge success. I was so pleased. We tallied 47 people though we may have missed a few and raised over $200 for hunger needs in our community. We had a great response and feedback from everyone who attended. I anticipate this will really take off. It is going to be the first Monday of each month. And the soup was great - 13 crock pots of soup from cheddar potato to beef stew to chicken noodle. I was absolutely exhausted after finishing clean up yesterday!
Despite the gas shortage, we still went last Friday to an apple farm in Ellijay (most other moms canceled but we were fortunately able to go). Jasper enjoyed the wagon ride and petting zoo part of the tour, which was the last third of the tour. Unfortunately the first two-thirds of the tour involved watching a video, milking a cow, drinking apple juice, listening to talking cow head on wall of barn...all things that involve sitting which is not what Jasper wants to do, ever. He was most happy sitting on tractors until we got to the parts of the tour he wanted to do!
Below you can see his big boo-boo's on his nose & forehead from a fall on concrete the previous weekend. They healed in a week which is amazing!
Enjoying an apple on the way home
Today was the first day for sleeves and pants!
