Christmas Decor

It has been an extra relaxing weekend here at the Rainwater house. On Friday night we were able to use our Bonefish gift card and go out on a nice date for free! That place is truly so good. On Saturday we were able to get the yard cleaned up and get the Cashion Family Christmas shopping done. Then, on Saturday night, we went over to Chris and Sarah Price's house for dinner. On Sunday morning they walked down and joined the church. We are really excited about it and love hanging out with them. Today David went to the library and studied and I went and picked up a couple of Christmas decorations. I immediately put them up and have included some pictures! We wanted to have most of the decorations up before we came home for Thanksgiving so that they would be up when we got home. Next Monday we're going to go and get our tree and I'm going to put up the wreath that Mom got me and the decorations will be done! We cannot wait to see everyone in a couple of days!

A Reunion Weekend

This weekend was really fun for David and I. On Friday, after class, we left Kansas City to head to Oklahoma City for Erick Sullivan's wedding. We road down with Katherine and Jay. We got there right in time for the rehearsal dinner on Friday night, along with Austin and Emily and Nick and Caroline. We all sat together and really enjoyed catching up with each other. Everyone stayed at the same hotel Friday night and the guys played poker while the girls watched TV. On Saturday morning we all got up and got ready to check out and go to lunch. We went to a great place in Bricktown called Zio's and Nick and Caroline treated us all (David/Me and Austin/Emily) to lunch! After the boys headed to the church Caroline, Emily and I went and visited the Oklahoma City bombing memorial. It was wonderful and very moving. The wedding was very sweet and we got to see Matt and Becky and little Jack! He is ADORABLE. Saturday night we spent the night at Katherine's parents house in Norman and drove back today. It was a long weekend, but it was so much fun to get to see everyone again. We are so lucky to have such wonderful friends.



All the old roommates! Jack is standing in for Adam. :)



We're all married!



Me, Emily, and Caroline. We had a great day hanging out!

A New Face

Rachel has given the blog a facelift.  We hope you enjoy!  I have two more tests, and then Rachel and I are going to try and go see The Lion King later this week.  Can't wait until Thanksgiving!

Anyone Need Any Firewood?

Yesterday (Friday) we had our chimney inspected and cleaned. The man who did it was extremely nice and told David that there was this thing going on today where you could get an entire truck load of wood for $35. Of course we had to go! We waited in line for an hour and a half and loaded wood for 45 minutes. We were so excited and feel like we got a great deal! There were tons of people there and we were just some of the many stuffing their trucks as full as we could. The man there told us that we probably got a little over a "rick." I don't really know if I spelled that correctly. Whatever the measurement is, we got a TON of wood. When we got back home we backed the truck to the side of the house and put all of the wood that we could get on the back porch and stacked the rest on the ground. Tonight we're going to get a five dollar pizza for dinner and rest by our first fire in our house! In the pictures you can see the massive pile of wood at the place and lots of the cars all pulled up around it. If we looked cold, it's because it is officially the arctic in Kansas City. :)

Pumpkin Pie!

Right now it is nap time at Preschool, and I brought my laptop today! Not all of my kids are asleep though. I wrote in our past post that I got two free "pie pumpkins" at the pumpkin patch. The lady at the place told us that pie pumpkins make the best pies, so last night I tried it. Amazingly it turned out pretty good! It took me forever, but I have now made pumpkin pie from scratch...literally. I actually don't care for pumpkin pie that much, but David liked it a lot. Pictures to come!

A Big Weekend

This has been an exciting weekend for David and I. The pumpkin patch on Friday went well. I didn't have any parent volunteers so I was a little bit stressed, but everyone had a good time. I got two free pie pumpkins too! On Friday night we were all set up for TONS of trick-or-treaters. We ordered a pizza, relaxed, and waited. We had about twenty kids come by. It was really fun. Our first Halloween together and we did not run out of candy! We met a couple named Chris and Sarah Price at Sunday School last week, so after the trick-or-treaters we went to their house and watched a movie. They are really nice and we hope to get to know them better. When we got back around midnight our jackolantern had been smashed! :( Crazy kids. On Friday night David also finished the french door. It looks unbelievable and he did a perfect job. On Saturday David studied and I cleaned the house etc. We thought it might be fun to go see the Lion King on Saturday night, but didn't end up being able to get tickets. On Sunday morning we walked down at Lenexa Baptist Church and joined. We are really excited to be connected to a church up here and look forward to getting involved. We can't wait to take anyone who comes to see us to see the church! Our new pastor also apprently knows Pastor Gary and his wife graduated from UMKC school of Dentistry. It's a really good church with a lot of the same qualities as Immanuel. We can't believe that we are not members of Immanuel anymore, but know that "LBC" is where we need to be. In this post I've included some of the pictures from the pumpkin patch on Friday and my new Thanksgiving bulletin boards.