More fall fun....

On our way to the lake this weekend, we stopped over at the Appleworks Orchard for a quick trip. The girls always love going there and you can never get too much apples and pumpkins this time of the year, can you??!! Katelyn is really getting used to her carrier that Daddy uses when we go places now....she loves to look around and get in on all of the action! Lauren and Allison enjoyed seeing the animals, sliding down the big slide, riding the train and of course, picking out pumpkins...one for each family member! After the orchard, we headed on down to the lake where Grandma and Papa hosted a birthday party for one of my nieces who turns 14 this week (where does the time go???). We had lots of fun with roasting hot dogs and marshmallows out at the fire and playing games before heading home. What a nice weekend!

A beautiful family day at the orchard/pumpkin patch!

Today was a gorgeous day.......absolutely perfect fall weather! So, we headed out to a local orchard/pumpkin patch here in Mooresville for their annual Family Fall Festival. They had all kinds of kids games, a mini corn maze to go thru, tons of pumpkins to pick, hot dogs and kettle corn to eat and of course, lots of good apple treats (apple slushies, caramel apples, apple crisp, etc..) to tempt us! We had one of Allie's friends from her school with us too. You'll have to notice in the pictures Lauren's lovely outfit for the day! : ) She picked it out this morning and oh man, was it good looking.....wink, wink! Nothing better than a cute "skeleton w/ a bow on it" shirt and a frilly skirt w/ Dora crocs! She thought she was quite the girly girl today! Allie and her friend Bridget enjoyed all of the games to play and the little pumpkins that they got to decorate. And, Katelyn just loved sitting in the grass (pulling on every piece she could get her hands on!) and looking at all of the pumpkins around her! Everyone had a great time and it makes me remember how much I love this season! : )

Allie's new glasses!

Looks like Allison is going to take after her mommy in more ways than one! Last year at this time, she was border-line on needing glasses....well, this year it is official....she needed glasses! So, we ordered them this week and we picked them up today. She was very excited to get them and so far, so good...she loves them! Praise God! : ) I was afraid she would be "nervous" about wearing them around everyone but she seems to think she is pretty grown-up with them on so I guess that's a good thing! Here's a pic of her modeling them for you!

Allie's wacky hair and pj day for school....

This week is spirit week at Allie's school in celebration for the upcoming Homecoming football game at Mooresville so each day, they are allowing the kids to dress up in some fun ways. Today happened to be wacky hair and pj day so here are a couple of pictures of her ready for school today! : ) Not sure how well you can see this but we had her hair in three different piggy tails on her head and she's wearing her "snowmen" pj bottoms. She was very giggly when she saw herself in the mirror and said that she really liked being able to have crazy hair and not have to worry about having a "bad hair" day! Too funny....

Jason's first hospital stay!

Just wanted to pass along a praise from the Massey family and a little update as to our lives recently. Last week Jason was out of town in CA for the week for a conference for his job. And of course, it always happens that when Daddy is away, things get a bit more chaotic! I've had a sinus infection, Lauren has had an ear infection, our garage door broke and what we thought was food poisoning for Jason out in CA earlier in that week ended up being appendicitis. He arrived home from CA very late last Thursday night and still wasn't feeling back to normal. We ended up at the drs. office first thing Friday morning and by late afternoon Friday, he was in surgery to have his appendix removed. Turns out, he had "gangrene" in his appendix and it was pretty nasty. In the surgeons' words...."you are very lucky that you are here now and that we got this taken care of when we did". He then shared with me how different of a situation it would have been that night had we not gotten him into surgery when we did. We are thanking God immensely for His hand on Jason! He spent the night in the hospital that night and was able to come home late Saturday. He actually has been feeling pretty good and ended up going to church on Sunday morning and is back at work this week. The only thing that seems to still be a bit out of whack is his stamina....he seems to be getting pretty worn out by evening. And he is still on some high-powered antibiotics that make him feel a bit "abnormal"! : ) But, all in all, he is doing great and we are just continuing to praise God for His protection and safe keeping on him. Remember, God's timing, as our pastor preached about on Sunday, is impeccable! : )

Just thought I would share our crazy but "God blessed" life recently.....

Allie's school accomplishments....

Just wanted to share with everyone how wonderful our Allison is doing with third grade this year. For those of you who have kept in close contact over the last couple of years, you probably already know but just to keep you in the loop.....she has always had a struggle with school work and was diagnosed with a learning disability. We have done alot of work with her (whew....I mean ALOT of work since kindergarten!!!) as well as a ton of praying! : ) We have just past the 1/2 way mark for her first 9 weeks and we are so pleased with her hard work and commitment. Of course, we are also giving God the glory for His work in her life. He is so good and so so faithful! And, we just were so proud of her that we had to share! : )

Lauren working on her "crafts".....

Lauren is taking after her big sister and becoming an avid "artist"....she spends hours sitting at the kitchen table cutting, glueing and painting just about anything and everything. Once she is done, her project usually weighs quite a bit from the mounds of glue that she has added but we still hang it prominently on our "art display"! She is so proud of her work....who knows....maybe one day she will make some big bucks off of all of this preparation! : ) Of course, then she will have to give her Mama some commissions from her fortunes since I helped her start her talent! (haha) On another note regarding Lauren, we went for her 4 year checkup today (she turned 4 back in August but just now getting to that!) and she is doing great. A bit on the small side but hey, that's just part of being a Massey girl! We did find out that her scar on her cheek from her fall back in July will probably be there for the rest of her life. But, there could be worse things and besides....it should give her something to show off for awhile! : ) She's our wild child so I'm sure there will be many more to come....