Saturday night we took our kids out for a family surprise!  We met Daddy in Tumwater at Infernos for pizza.  After pizza we headed over to the Rutledge Corn Maze!  It was an awesome fall night, not raining or too cold!

There were two mazes intertwined together.  Each with six checkpoints.  Each checkpoint had a unique hole punch to punch your card.  We found all 12 checkpoints in the corn maze.  Esther and Jadon did a great job leading us through the maze.  It was a lot of fun going through the maze at night!  The kids really enjoyed using their flashlights!

I truly treasure these families moments!

-Chris

BUT it was still fun and educational!

First, I thought of this grand idea for Esther to create a world map.  A world map made out of dyed rice crispy treats.  I imagined making the shapes of the continents and laying them on blue background.  One major flaw, I forgot rice crispy treats are extremely sticky.  Making the continental shapes turned into blobs of green.  The educational side is that Esther had to use her imagination and showed all her family where each continent was on her map!  She now knows her continents.

Second, since I have moved here I have always wanted to see the salmon run.  I have heard to go in October.  I surprised the kids with a trip into Tumwater Falls to see them.  I imagined lots of salmon jumping the waterfall or swimming up the locks.  Instead I found out we were about two weeks late.  There is always next year right?  It was still a fun experience!  We played in the leaves, saw quite a few dead salmon, saw a few salmon trying to run up the river, and enjoyed the waterfalls on a gorgeous fall day!

Some of the best educational moments are not what I quite imagined.  But I wouldn’t trade them for anything!

-Chris

Rahab has been attending BSF (Bible Study Fellowship) since she was born.  This year she is in the three year old classroom.  I love how excited she gets about attending and learning about Jesus every week.

This past week was a treasured moment for me.  They end their class by playing with play dough.  Rahab was excited to show me her creation she made.  There were three balls, a large one with a smaller one on top of it and another ball beside the larger one.  I asked her what she had created.  With confidence in her voice she responded,  “It is Jesus riding on the clouds.  He is coming back on a cloud, Mom.”  Her BSF leader and I just looked at each other in amazement.  My little 3 year old girl’s eyes are being open to his WORD.  Praise the LORD!

“Look, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him; and all peoples on earth will mourn because of him.  So shall it be!  Amen.”  Revelation 1:7

Thank you Lord for revealing yourself to your child, Rahab.  May your WORD always be in her heart!

-Chris

Week 2 started off with a tour of Main Street Cookies in Rainier, WA. Awesome to hear how a local business is doing in our area!  They are YUMMY cookies! 

After our tour and before piano lessons, we headed out for a picnic lunch!  It was such a beautiful day in October.  Making the most of these fall day!

Feeling so blessed to spend days like these with my children!

-Chris