Happy Halloween (or "You Want Me to Wear That?")

So last year I found this peanut costume on clearance. But as Halloween got closer I wasn't sure where she could wear it. Since we haven't found a church yet there was no fall festival to take her to and I thought she was probably too young to take trick-or-treating. But the costume was so cute I didn't want it to go to waste.

So I just took to some of the houses on our street. She actually seemed to enjoy it and it was a good way for me to meet some of the neighbors I hadn't met yet. When we got home I let her have one of the suckers which she enjoyed (although her aim wasn't that great and she ended up with a very sticky face).

She also liked all the other trick-or-treaters and hung around the door most of the night as I handed out candy.

San Antonio at Last

From Missouri we went down to San Antonio. My Grandma was nice enough to let us stay with her indefinitely. She lives out in the country and Rayna just loved being outside. She loved to gather as many rocks as she could hold in her hand. She also really likes the cows (she moos now).

She gets along well with my Grandma (we call here Ma-maw for Rayna). Rayna brings her her shoes so Ma-maw will take her outside.

We ended up only staying with Grandma for about 3 weeks. After only about a week of looking we found a house we both really liked and we were able to get into it pretty quickly. I'm going to try and do a post soon with pictures of the house and more details so I won't go into that now.

Alright, well it's time to catch everyone up on what has happened the past month and a half. We're finally settled in our house (more on that later) and have our computer up so here goes.

After we left John's mom's house in OKC we went to his dad's in Missouri. Rayna took to her Ma and Pa pretty quickly. She really liked their cat and liked going to feed the chickens with Pa.

She also got to have her 3rd birthday party. I'm sure you can tell from the pictures but she made quick work of that cake.

John went hunting with his dad and he did get small doe. It may have been small but it tastes really good.

We had been house hunting online and we found a house we really liked. So we asked my grandma (who was acting as our realtor) to look into it. It was in a perfect location, close to the base, on a cul-de-sac and had a huge backyard. Grandma looked at it and liked it and since we trusted her opinion we put on offer on it. We didn't get it but we weren't upset about it. We knew that God had a plan and if that wasn't the house there was another one.