Halloween Downtown

We walked around downtown this evening with Christina's brother's family. Carissa wore her "Annie" wig just for the picture.

Green Lake Sunrise

I'm here at Green Lake, WI for our annual Midwest Pastor's Retreat. It is beautiful and cold up here. I was up this cloudy morning to see the sunrise. The wind is gusting up around 50-60mph so the lake looks like an ocean at times.

Sunday Dress

A few shots of Carissa's dress she wore to church this morning:

Playing in the Bath

Carissa has discovered how water drips from her in the bath tub. She notices the funniest details. On this particular night, she couldn't part from her pacifier.

Parent Tip #47

In an emergency, a swim diaper can be used as a stocking cap.

*disclaimer: it is a clean diaper

Fun With Leaves

Carissa enjoyed herself in some leaves I raked together the other day.

Carissa wanted the camera and took this photo of me. She's getting better :) 

Pumpkin Patch

*blog note* -- If you haven't noticed, I was a little burned out on blogging after blogging so much about my dad's situation in Africa and the aftermath. I'll be catching up on a few things that happened this month. Thanks for sticking with me.

Carissa's preschool went to a pumpkin patch this last week and I went along.

This is her and me on the horse-drawn wagon ride. She tried talking to the horses the whole ride. 

The Hole in One

Found this sweet video that we made on a family trip to Branson this past spring. 

Ice Cream Cone

We went to South Central Creamery this afternoon and Carissa needed a cone just like mommy's. She enjoyed it thoroughly.