halloween 2008

We had our first Halloween last night! We went back to McLeansville/Whitsett to celebrate. Zeke was a cow. A totally cute cow! He was very sleepy and fussy because we kept going fromm place to place and not letting him sleep. We did not rack up any candy, but Zeke did get two sleepers, a cow rattle, and a new pair of shoes.

With Yaya (Courtney's mom)

With Pawpaw (Courtney's dad)

With Susie (cousin)

With Sierra (cousin)

Screaming cow

Sleepy cow

Mad cow

Family pic

Great grandma getting some kisses

With cousins Maddie and Sophie

photo shoot edited

I edited some of the pictures we had done at Portrait Innovations. Here are my favorites.

fun pictures

Here are just some random pictures from this past week. My friend Sarah took pictures of me with Zeke because she said there aren't any (which is kinda true).

Zeke looks angry, but he was yawning, really

Sweet Sarah with her favorite guy (next to her hubby of course)

I just really love this picture!

my church is awesome

Yesterday our church family had an amazing experience where we saw God truly moving in a mighty way. I am so glad that J.D. is a man of God who isn't afraid to say what needs to be said. Across our 6 services, there were 140 people baptized yesterday. It was INSANE! I know some may be skeptical, but it was awesome! People who wanted to get baptized talked with someone to be sure they knew why they were getting baptized. We provided clothes for the people to get baptized in so they wouldn't have to get their clothes wet. Well, until we ran out of clothes that is. The clothes were black and they turned the water a nasty color, check out the pics. I was especially excited about one person who got baptized... Tori! This is my brother in law's girlfriend, who we adore. Yay, Tori!
The pics are out of order, the first is of Tori coming back up and then the next is where Spence introduced Tori.

State Fair- Shelton style

Spencer, Zeke and I were supposed to go to the fair Friday. Now, not everyone loves the fair, but I LOVE it! It is my most favorite time of the year. When I was in college, we would go mulitple times. So, when it turned out to be chilly with a chance of rain we decided to bring the fair to us. Spencer let me have $40 (our usual fair amount) to spend. I made homemade lemonade, corn dogs, french fries, and funnel cakes. I also bought ice cream and corn, but we did not have room for that. I think the fair experience was enjoyable for everyone. This does not mean that next year we won't go, but at least if anyone is in a pinch and needs a funnel cake, I can help you out.

Lemonade

Funnel cake

Corn dogs

staff retreat

The Summit staff went on a retreat last week. Here are some pics from our fun times

Alex's kickball socks

B. Shrum in action

Danny the kickball king

Cornhole

Chris Gaynor showing off his mad athletic skills

Getting an accurate measurement in bocce

Ladder golf

Cynthia and Merriem loving on the babies

Firsts

We finally downloaded pictures from our camera. I thought I would share Zeke's first that we had captured. These aren't in any order...

First time in a swing (at his buddy, Holt's house)

First time going to dr.

First carride (on the way home from hospital)


First sponge bath

First bottle

First real bath