Having Fun

Our sweeties are keeping us busy.  All continues to go really well with our vicarage church and we are loving the fall weather.  Hopefully the pictures can speak for themselves--love and miss you all!!!!

All ready for church.

"I love my Daddy!"

We took a family hike to Eternal Flame, a close by park with beautiful trails.  The
hike proved to be a bit more streneous than I had anticipated (i.e. climbing over
downed trees, hiking through little streams, some steep inclines)
 but we all made it and had a great time.  Plus, it was peak leaf weekend--beautiful!

Eternal Flame

A view from Chestnut Ridge.

A very sweet couple from church treated our family to
a day at Hidden Valley Animal Adventure.  We had a blast feeding
buffalo, zebras, water buffalo, and ostrich, and countless other animals.

It makes me happy each time I see a Farmall in NY.  I know Dad would get a kick out of it too!

We have a beautiful maple tree right behind our garage.

The Hartke kids helped us make our Halloween ghost decorations.

We hosted a staff happy hour at our place this week--the kids had a ton of fun playing
with Jacob, as usual.

Happy hour costumes.

We babysat our friend's dog, Coach, for a weekend.  These kids have already been
promised a dog when our adventure through the Sem is completed!

Video taken October 24, 2014

Beautiful Fall

We have been out and about enjoying beautiful fall temperatures here in western New York.  Two weekends ago, we took the kids to a beautiful Camp Pioneer.  Camp Pioneer is a local LCMS camp right on the shores of Lake Erie.  We had a blast being outside for two days, and the best part was that "Camp Pioneer" was more so like a hotel--we had a bed and bathroom right in our cabin AND the kids got to sleep on bunk beds.  Score!  On Friday (Haune's day off) we had a couple of free passes to the Buffalo Botanical Gardens that were about to expire, so we took the kids to Buffalo for the day and had fun exploring our new city.  We love and miss you all, thanks for keeping up with the Hauan Family!

Gorgeous beach and sunset on Lake Erie.

Hiking around camp.

Morning sand castles... doesn't get much better than this!

Love these three!

We found an old obstacle course on our walk.

Haune was able to take each child out on a canoe.  They loved it!

This is Jacob, Haune's cooperating pastor's youngest child.  He
is just two months younger than Julia.  Needless to say, these two
have become buddies.  They came to camp on Saturday morning with
others from our church to help with "Camp Cleanup Day."

Buffalo Botanical Gardens.

I thought I would give uploading videos another shot... Here's a couple of kids dancing from a few weeks ago:

Videos taken early September 2014

Orchard Park Library and the Start of Ballet

Oops!  I had this post in "draft form" from a few weeks ago and forgot to publish it.  Luckily, I can blame "pregnancy brain" for mishaps such as this for a couple of more months. ;)

Zoo day at the Orchard Park Library.

They got to pet animals at the end... Calboy had just left
to go play at the train tables though. :/

First day of ballet class--yeah!  She was pumped!

"I get to wear my tap shoes!"

"I kept busy during my sister's dance class too."