SCTNow

On the 27th of September, our family was proud to be apart of a walk for STOP Child Trafficking Now. In a nutshell, here is what SCTNow is...

The STOP Child Trafficking Now global campaign targets the source of child trafficking: predators who drive the sex industry everywhere in the world, including in your local community. SCTNow has partnered with specially trained elite operatives familiar with what it takes to infiltrate, investigate and bring to justice the predators victimizing children worldwide. Never before in history has there been a system in place in which every concerned parent and citizen around the world can come together to support and fund highly qualified former government agents to track down and build cases against child predators! It's time we take control of this problem and stop them!

FSU ENCM was the group to bring this very important cause to Tallahassee and we were so proud of our students as they spearheaded this walk.

Here are some pics from that day:

Elisabeth at the registration table

Our very own Alyssa taking the donations!

Donny and our girls about to take off in the stroller

Miss Lexie!

Dena and her emotional Spoken Word about child sex slavery. Fabulous!

Donny speaking appreciation to all for coming

Walk to the Capital building
over 150 people walked with us!

BIG thank you to Susan and Amber for doing such a great job!

September starts!

Aaralyn started "school" again at the beginning of the month. Actually, she is a part of a Mother's Morning Out program at our church. She goes twice a week from 9-1230. She plays with kids her age, learns colors, numbers and other sorts of kiddie knowledge, has lunch and ABSOLUTELY LOVES IT! Not to mention, I get the morning off (well, not exactly off...I still have Little Bit around!) I know it is good for Aaralyn to learn to socialize with other kids and I am so thankful to be able to have her involved.

So here she is...

She was SUPER excited!

Elise's face says: "you're leaving me to go where?!?"
:)

In other news, the wonderful folks at Rivertown Community Church know how to take care of people! They are one of the many folks that support us as missionaries. They recently found out that we were in need of a couch, so they provided one for us! Not only that, but I got to pick it out and everything! I LOVE it and am super humbled, once again, by the over-and-beyond giving by this church.

So here was our couch before in it's sad state...

yes...the middle was unusable

And here is our NEW couch...

The girls were as excited as I was!
...well, not really. I was SUPER excited!!

We have gotten LOTS of wonderful use out of it this past month...and lots of ministry has happened on those seats already!! Thank you again, RCC!

Standing, Sleeping, Standing

Standing: Guess who's standing? Yep...it's official! I turned around one day and she had stood up! Wow was I suprised! I got these pictures later that day...it seems that as soon as she figured it out, she didn't want to stop.

Sleeping: Donny woke up with the girls one morning and when I came out to the living room, this is what I saw. I love this picture!
Standing: These are Aaralyn's "friends." She loves to stand them up and have them "talk" to each other. She will reenact things she has seen them do on TV and have them give hugs and kisses. I love it when she develops her imagination...especially when she is doing it on her own!!

Well, that finishes August! September coming soon...

Might need a spoon...

Sat down with the girls in their room with my camera and started snapping...I just want to eat them up!!

Play-Doh, Bubbles and Pinwheels

In case you've forgotten, Play-Doh is FUN!! Especially when you can enjoy it with a cute kid!

Our creations :)

She has so much fun!

Bubbles are probably the BEST THING EVER...well, at least in Aaralyn's world.

And she has a thing for pinwheels...she actually whistles when she blows. It is very cute!


She's my cutie and we love her!

Pretty sad

It's pretty sad how few pictures I got of our trip to North Carolina. Not sure how that happened...

We were able to take a GREAT vacation with MiMi, Pappy and Aunt Ish. We went up to the Mountain House and filled our days with great food joints, lots of neat stores, nightly hand and foot games, a HUGE puzzle or two, and basically had lots of fun with each other.
I know that here are more pictures taken, and I hope I can get my hands on them!
For now, here are pictures of us at Deep Creek.

The water was COLD and Aaralyn did not want to get in...
she was clinging to Donny and we were all laughing at how funny it was!

I really can't blame her, it was FREEZING!

But once we told her there were rocks in the creek...

she needed no more convincing!

My pretty baby

On to August!

On a visit to Marianna, we had some very special visitors. My father's cousin, Suzie and her daughter, Katie, came over to see the girls. Katie is so sweet and great with the girls.

Elise was especially taken with Katie

Needless to say, we had lots of laughs!

I am so thankful for the friendship my mom and Suzie share!!

We hope to see you all soon!!

Still in July...

Although we had planned on taking the girls to Magic Kingdom, those plans had to change and instead we took them to Downtown Disney.
It was a fun morning! I think that it is a great morning trip for little ones. There were lots of Disney characters to look at and talk about. Good food to eat. Hands on fun to keep little ones busy. And you can do it all by lunch time (more importantly...by nap time!!!) Not to mention it is free!

Aaralyn loves her Mr. Potato Head and this one was HUGE!!!!

She even got to build her own in the store.

My cutie-pa-tudie Elise

Isn't she sweet?!?

The carousel was a BIG hit! She LOVED it and wanted to keep riding!

Pooh Bear!

Elise took a little nap

I brought the swim suit for the water fountain

She had fun touching the water but never got quite brave enough
to get all the way in. She was cute to watch for sure!

It was a great day and I am so glad we went!