Pumpkins, Goodbyes, and Elephants

Kayla Grace enjoyed her Halloween. Jeff and I celebrated our fifth anniversary last Saturday on October 25th. A fun part of the day involved choosing a pumpkin at a pumpkin patch with Kayla. We carved it later in the week, and Kayla thought it was so funny how the seeds would stick to her! Once we discovered that our pumpkin rind was about two inches thick, we opted to forego the knife and the candle and just draw a face with a marker!

The morning of the 31st, Kayla and I said goodbye to Jeff as he left to go to China for 8 days. He and a group of five others from Christ Community Church will be in Beijing until November 7. They miscalculated when purchasing tickets and missed the Olympics by a couple of months! :) No, actually they are headed to the other side of the globe for a short-term missions trip. They will be providing education for pastors of small house churches as well as working in Miss Choy's orphanage.

Kayla and Mommy spent the day visting Grandpa Stratman at work as well as Grandma Great, Grandpa Great, Aunt Debbie, Uncle Buddy and Grandma. We enjoyed the evening with Grandma and Grandpa Stratman and with Kayla's friend Lexi and her mom, Cassie.

Stay tuned for some photos of the cutest Elephant in Omaha!