August is gone!

Our summer like weather is gone too!

Hopefully not for the rest of the fall – I am hoping that we will have some warmer days yet.

August was wonderful!

Full of so many wonderful things as you can see on previous posts.

We also had a lot of normal life mixed in with all of those activities!

One afternoon Chad was off work and I took him and my trio to town to get Chad some clothes.

If you haven’t noticed, he gets taller in his sleep every night!

I am still reading chronologically through the Bible and listening to a podcast each day called The Bible Recap.

It has been challenging but VERY good!

Lately I have been finding that my morning quiet time needs to be a devotional and prayer time, so I do my Bible recap at all different times during the day.

One afternoon I had the three youngest try on most of their winter clothes from last year.

Silly, huh?

Of course nothing fit them!

Ok, well maybe a few things did.

Then I made a list of the needs and Addie Mae and I spent an entire afternoon on a Sunday selling their old clothes and shopping for the new ones!

We found SO many nice things at the second hand store!

While we were out the guys rented a rug cleaner and cleaned the rug.

Bless them!!

They put our clear laundry soap and thieves household cleaner in that machine.

The rug (and the couches!) came sparkling clean!

The bugs have been bad this year, especially the flies!

Sometimes on Instagram you learn about some really useful things!

My friend showed these continuous water mister spray bottles and how she put her bug spray in them.

(They are the water mister spray bottles that hair salons use.)

GENIUS!!

The bug spray comes out in a fine mist, the nozzle is NEVER clogged, and you only have to squeeze the nozzle one time to cover most of the area you are trying to spray!

Our air conditioner broke one evening.

Of course it was over 100 degrees outside, a Saturday night, and kind of late.

Of course.

Thankfully when we called our furnace and air guy, he came to our rescue!

Can you believe there was a dead bird in our unit outside that had decayed and caused the wiring to fray?

We are the Moschels, after all!

When Blake and Grant were trying to diagnose and fix it before we called for help, the transformer blew up in their faces!

Scared a certain someone who is typing this post to pieces.

They are fine.

All is fine!

We were so grateful that the repair guy had what he needed and had us up and running again really quick.

Here is Tate keeping cool downstairs while the repair guy was there.

This is the steam on the sliding glass door the next morning.

It was SO hot outside!!

At the beginning of August we had our church baptism service in our yard and pool.

It was AMAZING.

The testimonies literally had me in tears!

What a blessing to see a public proclamation of people’s love for Christ!!

One of our dear friends who was there that day brought their pup with them!

He is adorable!

Ruby is sharing her bone, but I am not sure she wants to based on the look on her face, ha, ha!

Ruby is one loved pup!!

So is Sadie!

I need to take more photos of Sadie obviously!

These are the only two I have.

Here she is looking at me like that because while we were watering the garden together she ran into the woods.

Naughty puppy!!

Here she is trying to stay out of the rain instead of doing her business, if you know what I mean.

Silly puppy!

I seem to take a lot of photos of Ruby Jane!

She is THE BEST DOG!

I know we will miss all the wonderful freshness of summer…but I have already started soup season here!

We picked up our beef in the middle of August!

SO thankful!

Since then we have also picked up our chickens!

We ordered 60 whole chickens and they are tucked in our chest freezer in the garage.

It is a blessing to have the freezers stocked up!

Someone is brushing her own hair these days.

It was photo worthy because when you have sensory challenges hair is just a very hard thing!

I am SO very proud of our sweet girl!!!

In case you missed it the other 1,342 I have mentioned it here, we love books!

And love to read.

Sometimes I cannot get them to set their books down!

We had lots of company in August too.

A FAVORITE THING!

It meant lots of food prep and some good helpers – they are always good helpers!

Here Eliza and Ruby are waiting for friends to show up.

So cute!

There have been a few times lately where I just wish I could snap my fingers and that menu plan would be done!

I end up finding a way, but I am hoping to carve out some time to find some new recipes.

There are some things that may never change though!

Like making waffles every Saturday morning and freezing a bunch of them for later!

Don’t you just love this old, old waffle maker?

It was my Mom’s.

I am excited when our monthly Young Living order arrives!

We are so grateful to have these wonderful oils and products in our lives!

I am also excited that so many of our old books are selling!

August was a huge selling month for me!

Fridays.

Do I dare talk about Fridays.

They are BUSY – a pace that is crazy – but it is working and so we keep it this way.

I leave our nest at 6:15 a.m. to head to town for grocery, a work-out, and errands – in that order.

Sometimes it’s nice to be the only one in the van so no one else can hear you singing but God!

I cannot sing!

But I love to sing!

Saturdays are usually big kitchen days!

I have cute helpers though!

The big kiddos are usually mowing, or doing other big kiddo jobs!

This weather has been SO beautiful, so my cherubs washed up the tables for us to eat outside a lot!

Lunch time outside was bright and windy!

The weather has been great for evening fires and smores as well!

I still love the sky.

I don’t know if it’s just me, but I feel God when I see His beautiful handiwork!

I took this photo to remember the BEST maple iced coffee I have ever had!

Made safe for me by the sweetest friend!

Last but not least, my first bird photo of the season ahead!

I am sure our bird restaurant will open up again very soon based on the temperatures right now!

Isn’t this a beautiful bird?

I think I feel God in the beautiful birds He created for us too!

Wow!

That was a lot of photos!

Memories made and memories now kept!

Bless you if you made it to the end!

September is here and we are excited about that!

Hope you all are excited for fall too!!

Such a beautiful season, isn’t it?

Happy fall, everyone!!