60 days and counting!

Only 59 days until the expected due date! So many things I am working on until he comes...

I'm not working now, last week was my last time to volunteer at the pregnancy center, so I've been busy at home, organizing and nesting lately!
Here is the most recent book that has topped my wish list. It's a christian book that talks about managing a home in a God-glorifying way, with plenty of tips and hints on being efficient and consistent. Let's just say it fits my personality: Large Family and Logistics :)

Something else that I've been working on (while keeping up with organizing and cleaning), is what some would call a home-maintenance notebook. Growing up I would see mom with her binder that she would write Christmas lists in, meal plans, errands etc in and now coming up with my own set of organized lists just thought I would make a giant "Moore Family Binder" of my own. Only I found out that this is now a "hip Christian-wife thing" to do. I have found whole websites and online journals about how women have developed their own "family binders" and have found some good ideas from them too.

Currently mine has tabs that are labeled : To:Do list, Calendar, Cleaning(has my weekly cleaning schedule), Baby, Crafts, Grocery, Meal Plans and the list goes on. Something I am really proud of and want to keep working on before baby comes is what I have called my "grocery comparison list".  This is a snapshot of my most recent list:

This allows for me to keep a record of what places have the best deals on what groceries we buy. Then when I am looking at coupons, weekly ads or even just my grocery list, I know where a good deal is!

Just little things that hopefully will help keep parts of life organized for us. I know that if I didn't start these things now, I may never get them done once baby is here (and more babies for that matter).

Community

We live in a great place.

Last night we and some friends from church came and helped us do a "Block Party" to meet our neighbors and build relationships with these people.

We just moved into a neighborhood, and let's just say we are the ethnic minority :)

No worries. God led us here and has been blessing his fruit here. I think we have some of the best neighbors anyone could ask for. Sure we have our few: Matt intercepts a few drunks here and there, as well as some pot smoking smells in the air, but all in all---we have a really great neighborhood.


These are pictures from the block party that Matt and I helped with in one of the projects in Bryan. We had alot of kids come out!

He really wanted his picture taken!

playing games and eating lunch

Sarah was a little overwhelmed by one of the girls :) 

Halloween

Actually, its Reformation Day!

Its was October 31st that Martin Luther spoke out against the unbiblical practices of the Catholic church by posting them on the door of the cathedral ---Wahoo! Now everyone gets to read the bible in their own language and here the true gospel that salvation comes only from the Lord, by grace, through faith and its to the glory of God, not to the praise of any church. 

Matt and I decided to participate and hand out candy this year---which was alot of fun getting to see the neighbor kids and talk to their parents briefly at the door. We also carved pumpkins (something I've always wanted to do and we came up with some fairly nice ones:

Matt amd I are intense when we carve pumpkins!

Yes, Katie wore a glove to remove all the pumpkin innards out of the pumpkin

Focused on the pumpkins...

Matt is very proud on his progress so far

Katie's progress...almost there!

Finished Pumpkins!

Katie's "Cartoony House"

Matt's Pumpkin, titled "He has overcome!"