Shane found a pumpkin pillow.

Nice pumpkins…

Crazy pumpkins!

Kids play all sorts of sports in our town’s park, and today they set up a benefit community block party with local vendors and lots of activities for all.

Shane playing frisbee with his friend… and a police officer(?)

My all time favorite fall activity is going to a farm and picking fruits with my family. 😉

It’s a bit of a drive but we love coming to this farm so we can also pick grapes.

Shane nailed a “camera” smile.

Tree climber

I’m hosting a Girl’s Discipleship group at our house this afternoon. Chloe has been a part of this discipleship group, organized by a group of moms who have the similar age girls at our church. As a mother, my greatest desire is for my children to be so passionately in love with Jesus Christ and so firmly planted in the gospel that their faith will remain unshakable once they become adults and leave home. One thing I strongly believe is having christian friendships that can help through their spiritual walks, encourage each other and keep each other accountable through their journey of faith.

Today is my turn to do the lesson and the topic I chose is, “jealousy”. 

I put together a little powerpoint presentation to help me keep track of my thoughts.

Some sweets to keep them awake during the lesson. 🙂

My beautiful group of girls!

Then some play time afterwards!

To celebrate Shane’s birthday, we took him and his best friend to Dave & Buster’s  to play.

Lots of candies, lemonade, ribs, burgers and fries…it’s all good because it’s his birthday!

Happy 9th birthday my handsome son! You are an awesome kid and we are so proud of you!! 

My mom made a birthday breakfast for the family! Thank you Halmuni! :O)

I love you so much! You’ll always be my baby no matter how old you are!

One of Chloe’s bucket list for this trip was to eat the “authentic” Laudurée macarons in Paris at their original location. She’s too funny. Luckily there was one close to our hotel.

But first, breakfast. 

This is her thing now…drinking hot chocolate with her breakfast.

And Macaroons! We got one box for our family and one box for her best friend. 🙂 Can’t wait to see the rest of our family back home!

Here we are! I figured out a bus route and we made it!!!

Chloe’s first escargot and she like it!

We were pooped. We accomplished a lot today, but I was not done yet becuase Chloe still hasn’t seen the Eiffel tower up close. My mom was done for the day so I just took Chloe out again. At 10pm.

I am super excited I am in Paris with these two! My mom’s been here over 40 years ago and she wished she had more time here. There’s just so much to see but obviously we couldn’t see everything in 1 day so I basically just pointed things out to Chloe so when she has the opportunity to visit again, maybe with me or on her own when she’s  older, she’ll hopefully get to all of them.  My mission on this trip was to show her the Louvre and Eiffel tower at the very least.

She loved Jardin des Tuileries.