Happy Thanksgiving to each of you!

We hope you and your families are enjoying the day together, and that this finds you with much to be thankful for!

With love,

S. and Company

what do we do all day?

(First, I have to let you know that some "deeper thoughts" will be coming soon. I know the recent posts have been pretty child-focused lately!) ;o)

That said....

The other day I was thinking about how I am regularly asked what the kids and I do all day. :o)

Well, many mornings we have a loose schedule consisting of things like breakfast, clean-up, play time upstairs, a little laundry, play time outside/a play date with friends/story time at library, etc., lunch.

Then again... there are some mornings where we stay in our pajamas, make a fun, late breakfast, let the dishes remain... and we dance. ;o)

I thought I'd share a little clip with you. Here's Seth dancing to "Mighty Good Leader" by Audio Adrenaline. (Make sure your volume is turned up - hehe!)

Have a great day everyone! (The dishes can wait, right?) ;o)

Oops! I forgot a couple...

Today I remembered a couple funny things I forgot to add to the previous post. ;o) Here they are...


*Upon entering a pitch black bedroom with me one night recently, Haddie remarked, "Oh! It's so dark, I can't see my eyeballs!"


*Seth asked me the other day, "Does God wear pants?"
I paused for a moment. "Maybe, Seth."
"Hee hee!" He exclaimed, "Then I can ride around in his pocket!"

(Both of these made me smile.) :o)

Out of their mouths...

Our kids are always cracking us up. :o) Here's a little bit of what we've heard in recent months...

*(This one reflects how different the two of them are.) On our summer vacation this year, Seth was playing with some jumbo plastic lawn darts, saying things like, "Blast off!", "Pow!" "Zoom, Boom!" and "Full Speed Ahead!".
Haddie found them later, gathered all of them in her arms and said, "Ahhh, group hugs." :o)

*The place we were staying at was a town called Park Rapids - except in Haddie's mind it was "Park Rabbits". Hehe.



*Speaking of towns, we were on a trip a while ago and went through a town called Hitterdal. On that trip Seth was asking us what each town's name was. Later that week we had to travel again. We were going through one small town and Seth asked us if we were in "Hit-er-baby". We were confused for a minute, and then realized he was remembering Hitterdal as "Hit-er-doll", and thus, "Hit-er-baby" came to mind! We got a good chuckle out of that one.

*Recently we decided to go out to eat Chinese with some extended family members. We were excited because we don't too often go to restaurants any more. Seth picked up on our enthusiasm and exclaimed, "Wooo hooo! Yes! Hee hee, Chinese! .... do they have cheeseburgers?!"

*Then, the other day, we were eating whole sugar snap peas in a stir fry at home. Seth was very curious why there were "Peas inside the beans."

Seth and Haddie were having an interesting conversation at the supper table recently. Steve and I were amused at their early interpretation of gender roles at the beginning of this conversation....

*It started with me mentioning that Daddy is "Pastor Steve." Then I asked Seth if one day he wanted to be "Pastor Seth."

Haddie: "I want to be Pastor Haddie."

Seth: "Girls aren't pastors."

To which, Haddie said: "I'll get married". ;o) And then, "I'll marry Seth."

At that, Steve told her: "You can't marry your brother, honey."

So Haddie thought for a moment and said: "I'll marry Jason." (Jason is her uncle.)

"Sorry Haddie," I said. "You can't marry uncle Jason either. You could marry a friend. Like... Jude (just to throw out a name of a one of her friends so she would get the idea).

Haddie: "I marry Jude."

Me: "Well, I guess honey, you should marry whoever God wants you to marry. We'll have to pray about it."

Haddie: "I'll pray about it. Dear God, pray for Jude, amen."

Funny kids. ;o)

Candle in the Corner Giveaway

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(Hurry though, the drawing will be held Nov. 11th!)

These are just a few of the gifts you could win...

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I have an amazing wife!

Guest Blogger: Steve Krier

I am sitting at my office at church and was checking up on all the blogs that I read...one of which is "Like Potter's Clay"...my wife's blog. I was looking at all of things that she does on the blog which then got me to thinking about all the other amazing things my wife does. So I thought I would hijack her blog and write a post about how wonderful she is.

Thank you, Nat, for being a great mother to our two children, for your heart of adoption, for your tireless efforts at home and in church, for planting a church with me, for your listening ear, for being a great leader of women, for your example of faith to me, for all the late night talks, and for being my wife.

You're the best and I love you
Steve

More Fall Fun

Here's some more pics of our Fall Fun. ;o)
(In random order ... I'm having a problem with my ability to paste!)

Granny visited our house this past week and we had a great time with her. It was a nice mild and dry fall day, so the kids (... and the adults!) had fun goofing off in the leaves.

Yesterday we had a party at Steve's parent's house, complete with great decorations which the kiddos loved (thanks Megan!). Here are all the little munchkins - and grandma Barb!

Seth was Iron Man, Haddie was a Fairy, Antonio was a Renaissance Boy, and Hayden was a Cow. :o)

"Cheese!"

Haddie and Seth taking a break in the leaves the other day.

I love this one.

We started out the day on Saturday by having orange Jack-O-Lantern pancakes.

Grandma Sheila stopped by the party to see the kids.

It looks like we had some fall fun just in time - as I look outside this morning the ground is covered in inches of crunchy, icy snow! Eeeek, I don't think I'm ready for that! ;o)

Have a great day everyone!