She is now 13.

Last week Elie turned 13 years old. What a beautiful blessing she is. God truly gave us the most wonderful little girl. We lover her so much. We now have all teenagers in the house. Ellie chose to have a tea party/sleep over her are just a few of the wonderful moments of this week end.

Fall is here and Winter is on it's way

We are happy to say we have made it to the one year mark. It has been one year since we moved cross country to our new home here in Fredericksburg. I am happy to say we are all doing wonderful here, God has truly blessed us all, we have wonderful jobs and have made a lot of new and amazing friends here.

My parents just left after a wonderful one month visit. We got to see a great many things while they visited us. Here are a few high lights of their time with us.

Now we are getting ready for the winter months and Can't wait for the snow.

Winona will be here for thanksgiving and then we will be off to Ohio for Christmas. I just wanted to check in with every one and tell every one how Blessed we are and That God is still working mightily in our lives.

Summer is Gone Fall is Here

Well we made it threw our first summer here. The weather was never unbearable and the earthquake and hurricane kept us on our toes. We are in love with this new place we call home. Thomas, Joe and Ellie are great. Life is as it should be, I love the fall it is my favorite time of the year, the leave changing color the weather cooling off, time for pumpkin every thing and hot apple cider. We leave the window open and enjoy all of Gods wonderful creation.
At night we hear all kinds of bugs and frogs in our wonderful back yard and can sit out on the deck and enjoy an evening meal together.

All the kids are back in school thomas is playing soccer again Joey is taking guitar lessons and Ellie is back to ballet. they all are doing so good. I love my job so much I smile all the way to and from work. Tom is healing wonderfully from the torn tendon last year and we a learning how to whitewater kayak.

The Earleys will be out in Oct to see our new home and we are all going to see some more Earley's on this side of the world. Joey will be 16 in just a few more weeks and he is already studding to take his permit test.

  Last week end we had all the Patten boys here for a wonderful relaxing week end. We love having them so close by.

  Our Blessings are many.

we are good

Just a really fast up date on all of us. We are all doing really good even with the heat out side.

 I have been promoted to insurance coordinator at the ACA and got a sweet ride. Thomas is about to start soccer and try to hold down a job, Im sure he will be just fine. Ellie is rocking it with the laundry here at home and Joey is making some money at mowing lawns.

 We are already making plans for Joey's 16th birthday and going to get him driving soon.

Thanks for all your prayers we have felt them.
We love and miss you.

We are getting a foot hold

We all got out on the Rapahannock river this long week  for some Kayaking. It was a great time for all of us, and some very much needed family time. With three of us now working in the family we don't all have the same days off. But with my new job there are some really cool perks, one of them being free kayaks for us to use when we have the time to get out.

Altho we couldn't keep Thomas sitting in his, next time we will take the stand up paddle board for him. We had wonderful time exploring the river and seeing  some of our new surroundings. God is so good to us. So good by to the surf boards for a while, till we get down to the beach, and hello to rivers and lakes.  We will get fresh air how ever we can.

its been a long time

   I am so sorry it has been such a long time since I have Blogged to all of you. We have been quite an active bunch of Pattens. So let me tell each of you how God has been Blessing us. I got a wonderful job working for the American Canoe Association in their membership department. I love it there the people are wonderful. I am currently only hired on as a temporary part time but I am hopping to be permeant in the fall. Soon you can got the their web sight and see me, and what they are all about. Oh and I won the race but, Thomas wasn't to far behind the very next week Thomas got a job at Gander Mountain in the foot ware and Camping department. He likes it there as well. We are both feeling very Blessed know there are so many people out there looking for work and we were able to find jobs we both like and now can also have a little fun with some extra cash in our pockets.

  If any or you don't know, our home town of Sierra Vista has been burning for the past few weeks but the fire is currently at 40% containment and we are so thankful for that. Non of our parents homes were in danger but many of our friends had to evacuate their homes. We haven't heard for m them yet so please keep them in your prayers.


Well I just wanted to give you all quick update and say Hi we haven't forgotten any of you. And keep each of you in our prayers day and night.

many Blessings to each of you Candy

Prom

Sorry I haven't kept up with all of you since we got home. We are doing good . Last night was our first prom night and we had  blast getting Thomas ready. His date he and a friend and date eat dinner here at our house it was wonderful that they let us serve them we went all out with Pear pasta and pork chops.

Thomas as you may or may not know has a new Girl Friend in his life and we like her a lot. Her name is Jen.

Other than that we are all doing good no changes in life work and school and enjoying our new city.
Many Blessings to all .