Maggie's New 'Do

This is Molly, and she is the coolest. She's our church's part-time children's director, and she cuts hair (wonderfully) - at your house!!!!! We LOVE LOVE her!

Dakota Fanning or what?

Fun, Fun, Fun

On Friday, Claire, Elaine and I joined some sweet friends at the zoo (it's free during October & November!). Unfortunately the weather didn't cooperate, and we were quickly very wet and cold and only saw a bit of Australia. Thankfully there's a nice and toasty Discovery Barn that had some animals and activities. We defrosted there. The weather cleared up just in time for us to see a Sea Lion show. By then we were all exhausted and decided we'd have to try again.




Here's Claire w/ our neighbor Raquel who lives with us part-time :) (she doesn't have any sisters and her brother is 11).




On Saturday we went to a fundraiser for an urban high school and enjoyed lots of fun activities. Highlights below. We had SO much fun!







The girls' carved their first pumpkins. You may not can see that the small one is a Jack-O-Pup (or a pupkin)

Blogs That Crack Me Up!

Most of the blogs I read are friends' blogs. I have some really great spiritual blogs that feed into my Google reader too, but there are usually way too many posts for me to read, so I usually ignore them like the clutter on my closet floor. (Exceptions: Girl Talk, 22 Words)

Then there are the blogs that just make me laugh. I thought I would share them with you in hopes that you could share your fav's with me.

1. McSweeney's Interenet Tendency- not the easiest site to naviagate and I don't think there's a feed, but there is some hysterical stuff there. I'm a big fan of Lists, Open Letters, & Short Imagined Monologues. My all time favorite may be this.
2. Before they got their book deal, Stuff White People Like was a daily highlight of mine.
3. And just today (hence the post), I was pointed to another great one (HT: MP) Cake Wrecks! Oh my goodness, my side still aches from all the laughter. I probably most appreciate this site because Wes & I have chuckled for years at the misuse of apostrophes and quotation marks (just being a stereotype - SWPL).
4. And, I almost forgot : Engrish. I know I shouldn't, but I can't help it!

Top 10 Things I Miss From Mexico

10. Not needing a prescription for most medicines

9. The relaxed view of time

8. Spanish- though I am in no way fluent, it was amazing to communicate, worship, and interact in another lanuage (though there were challenges too)

7. Cheap medical & dental care

6. How having lunch with someone could turn into an all day affair

5. How their culture loves and cherishes children (especially more than things) instead of being annoyed or irritated by them (even if they are being noisy, impolite, or acting like, well - children)

4. Seeing simplicity, resourcefulness & contentment-with-little lived out daily

3. Rosie!!!! She cleaned the house for us once a week. So affordable & very missed :)

2. The tostadas & beef broth soup & pico de gallo from down the street!!!!!!! We haven't found any AMAZING mex. food here in KC yet.

1. Of course the #1 thing I miss are the people! There are so many dear people there that I think about all the time! Besitos y abrazos a Uds.

Some Fall Fotos

I have several "top 10" posts in mind, but until then, here are some recent pics:

claire, elaine, i enjoyed a nice fall picnic.

maggie's 7th birthday!

some friends joined in the festivities

up close w/ elaine