My Husband the HERO, no not the sandwich :)

Well we live on a huge farm. So stray dogs come and go all the time. Actually, sometimes they come and never go and sometimes they just pass by. Well, We have now two strays Buddy and Friendly. Well we had Friendly until a few days ago he found a group of hunting dogs next door and decided to start running with them. Anyway, Friendly left and another one showed up the same day. This dog had a flea collar, was fixed and very clean. Come to find out he belonged to the rest home down the road. So Saturday Morning Johnny dropped off the dog to the rest home and the people were so excited to see the dog back. He was an outside dog at the rest home. There was an old man who loved the dog so much he stopped taking his medication because the dog was gone. John said when he showed up it was like Christmas day everyone was so excited. Good job Johnny! He helped a dog get back home and helped put a smile on an old mans face. MY HERO!!

Haloween

Well Halloween was a lot of fun. My niece Gabby was a snail, although when she got crabby and we took her shell off she became a slug:) Julia and Ella were both ballerina's. I paid over $70.00 a piece for Julia to dance in two recitals with those dresses I was getting my monies worth. My nephew Jason was knight. His mom Erin, made his costume and it looked fantastic better than anything you could have bought. Finally, my other niece Emma was Hannah Montana she had a crazy wig that had purple lights in it. The kids were all very cute.




So now another holiday has come and gone and were now awaiting Thanksgiving. We will be making our annual trip to Virginia for that holiday. John's grandma Kokinda and all his aunts and uncle live there so we make our once a year appearance. It's usually a lot of fun.
Fall has finally arrived in NC so we are officially in jeans and a sweatshirts now and maybe a jacket on a good day. This year thought I have noticed a change in the leaves more then in the past. One thing I miss about NY is the Fall, it was always my favorite time of year.
My dad is coming for Christmas were excited about that. I know the girls are looking forward to seeing him, as are John and I. Well, I guess that is all for now.

Pumpkin Carving

Well this past Saturday we had our Kokinda family pumpkin carving night at Aunt Erin's. I made some cool desserts, even though I don't consider myself a baker by any means, they still looked cool.




Everyone carved a pumpkin except for Ella she had those dog plug in things and was happy eating the raw pumpkin (I know gross.) All the pumpkins came out pretty neat.





My sister in law Katie started this tradition about 4 years ago (I think) so since she is in Hawaii living in a tropical paradise, Erin decided to have the pumpkin carving night at her house.
OK, well on another note, we had gymnastics again this Thursday and Ella got a stamp, before you get excited that she was great keep reading. Apparently the really good listeners got three stamps (Julia did), the OK listeners got two stamps, and the ones who didn't listen to well got one (that was Ella.) So, she is still trying. Her coach said she was better this week compared to last week and she didn't run away. She was just hanging all over the coach and not participating toward the end. On that note we just "Keep Moving Forward." I will up date you on next weeks lesson.
We are going to the State Fair on the 25Th of October. My niece Gabby has never been so this will be her first time. Were all excited to see her reaction to the Fair Craziness and the Crash Up Derby. I should have plenty of pictures then. I have posted the most recent picture of the girls below this.