Autumn Is Here!

So I absolutely love Autumn! It's safe to say Autumn is my favorite season. I love how it's kicked off with all the back to school items in August, yes I realize August isn't fall, it just simbolizes to me that Autumn is around the corner. Then slowly we start having some cooler weather. The sweatshirt and shorts weather, the jeans and t-shirt weather and you bring a jacket or sweater with cause you know by the time the sun goes down it'll be chilly.

Slowly the leaves start changing color and out of no where you start craving Apple Cider. You start looking in the paper and around the serounding towns to see what Fall Festivals are happening. I love that we have a fire place and can wind down our evenings with Randy working diligantly to make us a nice, soothing and relaxing fire. I love the sound of leaves crunching under our shoes as we take the girls for a walk every afternoon around campus.

Here are some pictures of Mooseheart in the Fall.

I also love that this Autumn brings the end of this election year. Inspite of the excitement that this election year has brought I must say I'm ready for this to be over. I love that I've been able to follow this election year of firsts; Hillary Clinton as the first female to have a legitimate chance to win the Presidency, Obama as the first black person to hold a major parties nomination for President and Sarah Palin as the first female running as the Republican parties Vice President.

Here are a few pictures from the first McCain/Palin rally the Republican National Convention held in Cedarburge, WI.

We woke up at 5am on our day off and drove 2 in a half hours to this little town of Cedarburg, WI with a population of 11,298. The town was not expecting more then around 3,000 to come out and support the McCain/Palin rally that day. This charming town had over 6,000 more then they expected that people were miles down the street just hoping to catch a glimps of McCain and Palin. It was such a site and I'm so glad Randy drug me out of bed for it.

So Autumn may not be your favorite season but what things do you look forward to in the Fall?

Blessings from God

We continue to find ourselves blessed here at Mooseheart. We are working with these 10 girls and among the daily frustrations of balancing school, home work, athletics, outings, house hold chores and relationship building among all 10 girls we can't help but count our blessings.

• Randy & I have the blessing of spending our days together.
• Daily we see these girls changing their family tree for the better because of their success here at Mooseheart.
• We have down time in which we can fellowship with other Family Teachers/believers here on campus.
• God conintues to develop us in new and exciting ways.
• We don't drive often so we are protected from dealing directly with the crisis in our economy at this time in the way of gas.
• The Lord provides for us a balanced meal 3 times a day and then some.
• One day Mooseheart will provide a way for me to work and be a stay at home mom.
• The Lord has been good to us and allowed us time off to be with family and friends for important events in life.
• We continue to see God bringing believers to Mooseheart and I are so excited to see what the Lord does with all of us here.
• We have been so blessed to have many visitors from home, that we miss dearly, come up to campus and visit us.

What things are you thankful for? In what ways is God blessing you in your life that all too often get over looked?

Randy has new blog!

Just a note to let everyone know that I am starting a new blog at rariggs.wordpress.com. Hannah and I will continue to use this blog to keep everyone updated on our life at Mooseheart and general news in our lives. My new blog will be focused on the discussion of fighting the injustices of the world. I'm just getting it started but feel free to check it out!
Randy