Reformation Day and Harvest time

What a great time of year. The time in which we celebrate many wonderful things. It is a good time to begin to store food in your freezers, a time to pull out your favorite winter sweatshirt and time to take the kids to more then a few houses so we (I mean they) can get some candy. As the leaf color peaks we have had some great fall time celebrations. We have our church harvest dinner coming up in a few weeks and it truly is a wonderful time to have such great food and fellowship. A bit crazy since our family takes up a whole table but it is a passing season so we will rejoice even in that. So for this reformation day I have been working with Isabella on her hovering mode. It has been tough but she can hover for about 5 minutes. I am trying to get her to hover in one spot for a bit longer but she is only 3. So for this reformation day she will be a fairy. This is a photo of her in mid hover….

Isabella hovering.

On another note I am practicing my disappearance act….

Where did I go?

This is our front bush/tree as it progresses day by day….

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

Day 4 (Today)

Today which is Tuesday October 27th I walked out on to our front porch (around 6:15pm) to be greeted by this mama deer…

mom deer

Last and least, another picture of some leaves.

Three of a kind

Split Tree

Then we have one of Joshua playing in the leaves. He loves it but has been under the weather all season. But we did get one picture.

Joshua playing with a leaf.

A great time to be a dad and I know Christina feels the same about being a mom. These times are so wonderful and going by so fast. If you are a young family…ENJOY it. If you are a grandparent…ENJOY it. A great time to be thankful for all that God has provided to us this year and a wonderful time to plan the year to come.

More Autumn and more fun

So today was Sunday. It started out with the whole crew getting ready to leave for church. We left with just enough time to get there which happens way to often. Well part way through our trip we realized we needed gas on the way home and left our money there. So with not enough money or time we retreated home to have a family worship service. It was a great time with some great songs and then some fellowship around the word. We touched on Matthew 6:10 and the need for prayer to start with God’s will not our grocery list. We have been blessed by our Pastor on that subject and thought we should continue here at home. Well since we were dressed for church but missed it we thought we would go to a local hiking trail that we LOVE in Lapeer County. It is called the Butterfly Park and few people know it is even there. A women who owned the land donated it to be used for a nature park. It has about 5 miles of trials with bridges, ponds, large gardens, trails, etc. It is a Michigan Gem and we love to go there. So we went and were able to take just a few pictures although we wanted to take much more…we got lost. But 30 minutes later we found our way out, tired, but out. So here are some of those pictures.

Plants with the soft flow of a creek.

Creek carries the leaf's away.

Sister Power

Down Tree

The natural Arch

Dad and Son walking in the woods.

Isabella and Grace enjoying the fall season.

The kids call this mystical Forest Trail

More Mystical Forest.

Our hidout

Two beautiful girls.

Our little ones.

Joshua on the Prowl

Jordan enjoying the sun.

A reaching tree.

Kids on the bridge compete with the shadows.

Isabella with her two big sisters.

Another Michigan Fall

Kaylie, Jordan and Grace 10/17/09

As fall is under way we have already felt the pressure to begin our fall photos. The main reason is that the color change comes and goes in such a short window. So for prime pictures we will need to utilize the next two weeks for just that. Today on October 17th we have ventured out into the yard and I have found some great colors as well as some remaining summer tones. The kids are in there pants, coats and the occasional hat so we are bundling up around the Morris household. This weekend was filled with great opportunities to host and my wife did a TON of work in making our home inviting. We as a family are so blessed at all she does to serve. She has also perfected her new chili recipe so that adds an extra warm cozy feeling on chili nights and long conversations about theology to politics or just some spontaneous kid performances in our living room. Either way, play time has migrated from the yard to the living room and we are enjoying the transition. Here are some more pictures I took today around 4 p.m. so the sun was still about two hours away from setting.

Colors verse flow

As the trees begin there seasonal color competition. Some flowers refuse to sleep.

Purple lights the path.

Some dark Purple continues to blend.

A red shout with a green hug.

From white to layers of color.

Fall will not be ignored.

Kaylie finds a leaf that dances with light.

The Dark Purples spread out over the land.

We will watch this one day by day.

A touch of color across the field.

Strong announcement and reminder from the Lord.

A Picture of Jesus on the cross.

Kaylie' picture of Jesus on the Cross

For our Christmas Carol sheet each kid made there own pictures. This is a picture that Kaylie did of Christ on the cross.

Silly Stuff

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

A baby shines into our home

My beautiful wife with our handsome little guy.

Joshua Benjamin Morris was born on September 20th at 10:28 and weighed 8.6 oz and was 20” inches long.

God has been good to our family and in His mercy and kindness He will guide me (a sinner) to His purpose and plan in the needs of being a husband to my wife and father to our children. By His grace Joshua will come up as will our other little ones to fear God and to love Him and trust in Jesus with all there heart.

Daddy’s little Girl starts School

So the 2nd of this month was Kalie’s first day of school. A day of new clothes, erasers, pencils, ideas and books. A new teacher, friends and a day of new beginnings. A new chapter in her life and ours. A day from being at home and available anytime I wanted to talk to her to a day of departure and a wave….

Our New Chapters

With sadness and excitment we go hand and hand to this new chapter. We dont know what is to come and but we know with God’s grace and his mercy we will see great things. I am so thankful that I have a chance to be a dad but more than that I am thankful that God in His mercy saved me so that I can give her as well as all of our kids something more profound, smothing more amazing….a solid foundation. In fact it is the only foundation…the one built on Jesus Christ. I remember telling a friend of mine this past week that I wish I had somebody, anybody in my family that was could tell me the worth of Jesus Christ. And at that moment I had such a powerful emotion come over me. How blessed and undeserving I was to give that to my children and my grandchildren. What a miracle!!! So as my little girl starts her first day of school I am a blessed man, such a beautiful girl and such a wonderful time we have shared.

And as Kaylie starts her first day we have two other first days that went awsome. Jordan started 2nd grand and Victoria started 5th Grade. We look so forward to there growth and that God will grant us all wisdom to raise them in the ways that please the Lord.