I know I've been bad about giving you actual NEWS or things that are happening here (some would argue that is not news).  I'm going to give you a quick update while Will watches Dora. We'll see how much I can type in 20 minutes.

We, along with most of the Mid-west, have had a major change in weather in the last few days. We had our first freeze last night (and a 30 degree temp drop in the last 24 hours). I know some of you (MATT & Amy) will laugh at us and our measly flurries, seeing as how you already got snow; but for this thin-blooded, transplanted Southerner, it was a sudden change and is now rather chilly out. (The were talking about WIND CHILLS this morning!) In honor of that, I have a pot roast going in the crock pot. It smells wonderful and is making me really hungry (the downside to crock pot cooking when you are home all day).

Monday we went to a local pumpkin patch. Both Will and Alex found the tractor/wagon ride to and from the pumpkin patch the best part. They enjoyed watching the tractor (it starts SO young!).  Alex wasn't interesting in picking out a pumpkin, but he did enjoy eating straw in the wagon. Will found 2 pumpkins right away and was ready to ride the wagon again. Instead we had to wait for it to come back, and so we subjected the poor boys to a short photo shoot in the pumpkin feild. I'll put up some pictures later when I don't have to go look for the camera.

Tuesday was the beginning of our MOPS Date Night. I know I talked about it last year, but I don't have the time to go back and look up where to link to it, so I'll just bore those of you who remember & tell those of you who don't know. Our MOPS group has about 15-16 couples that all get together on the 2nd/4th Tuesday of the month. Each time 3 couples watch the kids. The others drop off the kids and have a few hours child free to do what ever we want. We watch kids 3 times and get 12 date nights out of the deal, all for FREE! It's a crazy time when you have to work, but very nice every other time!  The moms of older kids were having fun holding Alex (and wanting another baby).  They told us Will came up and said "Can you put Alex down so I can play with him?"

Yesterday Will disovered the fun of making a "tent" or "tunnel" (a blanket over the piano bench and chair) and he, Alex and I had great fun playing under it, watching Alex try to crawl through it and playing peek-a-boo with Alex in it.  It's fun to see the boys starting to play together. I was able to walk away some of the time and do other work around the house.

But, the biggest news yesterday was James drove up to Jonesboro to show the house to an interested couple (to rent for the year).  They are pretty interested, just not sure about the down payment. Please pray with us they can get the money together–we'd like that house to have people in it! (Want to see the cool web-site James made for it? Go to www.112swaterst.com)

Wow, I ran out of news before Dora ended!  Probably a good thing.