The Buffington's: November 2009

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

What Virginians do in the fall..

I have to personally apologize for ever complaining when I had to rake leaves growing up in our front yard in California. We had maybe one large tree. There are SO many leaves I do not know what to do with them all. I tried raking and bagging some but yeah right that would take all year. Nathan had a FUN time running through the large piles of leaves I raked up. We spent at least a good hour or two jumping running and throwing leafs. We are slowly starting to get our grass back after tarping, mowing, raking and moving the leafs to the forest. Did I mention raking? We need a blower for sure.

Caleb Joshua already 4 months old

Time flies when you are having fun! We just had the 4 month check up and Caleb weighs 13 pounds 11 ounces and is 24 in tall. What a pleasure it is to be a mother of two wonderful boys!

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Happy Halloween!

What a night! We went to the Hallelujah party at church and it was super cool. They had pony rides, a Ferris wheel, tea cups, games, hay rides, food , on and on. It was very cool and all free. I love our home church. It was so nice to spend Halloween as a family. Nathan was a farmer and Matt built him a cardboard John Deere tractor and Caleb came as a sack of potatoes. I think we were the only ones there with handmade costumes. By the end of the night Caleb had had it. He was crying and not a happy camper, that first picture explains it all. I think it was too much stimulation. Nathan on the other hand had a great time. He kept saying he wanted to go back to the circus. The whole ride home he said I want to go back,I want to go back, back mommy, lets go back now whining and crying as we drove further away. I was busy with the baby, feeding, changing, comforting, while daddy and Nathan enjoyed the rides. Mommy got good sleep that night, whew I needed it.

Halloween Fun!

Halloween Fun! Enjoy it while you can.

Pumpkin Patch

This is tradition. We had a great time, got a perfect pumpkin, and the scenery was breath taking. There were quite a few reddish orange pumpkins that I have never seen before, must be the well water. (J/K)

Awesome Scriptures

Psalm 84:11-12

11 For the LORD God is a sun and shield; The LORD will give grace and glory; No good thing will He withhold From those who walk uprightly. 12 O LORD of hosts, Blessed is the man who trusts in You!

Isaiah 55:8-9

“ For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways,” says the LORD. 9 “ For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts.

Lamentations 3:21-26

21 This I recall to my mind, Therefore I have hope. 22 Through the LORD’s mercies we are not consumed, Because His compassions fail not. 23 They are new every morning; Great is Your faithfulness. 24 “ The LORD is my portion,” says my soul, “ Therefore I hope in Him!” 25 The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, To the soul who seeks Him. 26 It is good that one should hope and wait quietly For the salvation of the LORD.

Romans 8:28

28 And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.

Jeremiah 32:17

17 ‘Ah, Lord GOD! Behold, You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and outstretched arm. There is nothing too hard for You.

Jeremiah 32:27

27 “Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh. Is there anything too hard for Me?

Daniel 11:32

32 Those who do wickedly against the covenant he shall corrupt with flattery; but the people who know their God shall be strong, and carry out great exploits.

2 Corinthians 5:7 7

For we walk by faith, not by sight.

Isaiah 30:19-21

19 For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem; You shall weep no more. He will be very gracious to you at the sound of your cry; When He hears it, He will answer you. 20 And though the Lord gives you The bread of adversity and the water of affliction, Yet your teachers will not be moved into a corner anymore, But your eyes shall see your teachers. 21 Your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, “ This is the way, walk in it,” Whenever you turn to the right hand Or whenever you turn to the left.

Jeremiah 33:2-3

2 “Thus says the LORD who made it, the LORD who formed it to establish it (the LORD is His name): 3 ‘Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know

1 Corinthians 2:9

9 But as it is written: “ Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.”[a]

2 Corinthians 4:18

18 while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.

Hebrews 11:1-3,

1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. 2 For by it the elders obtained a good testimony.3 By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible.

Hebrews 11:6

6 But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.

1 John 5:4

4 For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our[a] faith.

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