God is greater! 09

Since we don't celebrate Halloween, its great that a church in town throws a God is greater party. God is greater than anything! Here are the costumes our kids picked out. Also my brothers kids came so I took pics of them.

Trip up north

Logan's Birthday!

So Logan turned one this October. Here are the pics. My mom made the cake.

Giant waves on Lake superior

I posted a pic so you can see how tall this waves really were. This is Dave and I.

First snow

Wow, summer was like fall and now fall is like winter. Good thing I LOVE winter! But it is sad that the canoeing season with kids has come to a close. oh well.

The girls have started swimming lessons again. This is Ashlynn's first lessons without me. She did great!

First snow! The girls were so excited! We had so much planed for this day, but had to take a break to enjoy it.

First we went to a Fall Festival at Sherburne National Wildlife refuge.

There was face painting...

A big blue goose...

More face painting....

Of course lessons about wild life.....

More face painting....

Hay rides.....

more hay rides....

and meeting the horses that gave us the rides.

After that we took a lunch break at Mc.Donald's then headed off to a Fall party at Dave's cousins house. We stopped by to pick up my Brother family so they could enjoy the fun. It was suppose to be all outside, but with the cold temps (26*F in the morning) it was moved inside.

The girls loved dressing up in costumes...

Anna the clown

Ashlynn is a Pirate

Logan is Benjamen Franklin

Anna with silly glasses

This is Ashlynn painting pumpkins

Anna is a scary Football! lol

Logan is a happy baby!

Ashlynn is a Cowboy

Logan loves Apple Crisp!

Dave is a scary Pirate. Logan hated that, so did Anna.

Ashlynn is a clown!

Apple harvest 2009

Apple harvest 2009 was a huge success thanks to some great friends and family!

These are all brothers that helped

Anna and her cousin pulling apples

Everyone doing everything to help
The peelers!

Me!

The cookers

Peelers:

Everyone's cars:

LUNCH!

Back to work!

Cookers and peelers

This is the before we started:

Thanks to everyone that helped! We couldn't have done it without you!

September canoeing

Today after I was done at Church we took the kids canoeing and fishing. There was a campsite I wanted to scout out for future canoe trips. We had a great mini trip! I hooked onto a huge fish that ripped out drag and then broke my hook. Anna caught a CLAM on her hook! lol. We found the camp sites we were looking for and they looked great. Then an Eagle landed 10 feet from us!

Ashlynn loves canoeing! Look at me! she says

Logan is giving the thumbs up; way to go mom!

Logan loved being able to stand in the canoe!

He was so happy to be able to stand and look at things now!

Do you know what your doing mom?

Go that way mom!

Our canoeing Princesses

Anna took a pic of us after

The Eagle we saw