It's Christmas Time In The City...

Wait! Roll back the reel! It's not Christmas yet! It's..... Fall Party!!! This year the theme for the fall party was "The City". People came dressed up as anything from a taxi cab, to a street artist, Or just a plain "interesting" person. Look see, ain't you evah see a "weerdo" in the city befaw?

Here's an idea... since I took a lot of pictures, and a picture says a thousand words... how about I just post lots of pictures with a few captions instead of writing a long summary of our fanstastic day. Hmm... Well guess since nobody objected, that's what I'll do. Wait... nobody can comment til I post the pictures. Guess I better get crack'n. Til next time! : D

It started off with a children's meeting about how to shine a light in the city on a hill. Was very cool for everybody. Even grown ups! : )

Mark made an awesome fire fighter!

All the paintings/decorations were fantastic!

Anyone else ever been confused while driving in a city???

The raffle ticket sellers : )

Instead of playing for money, Christian put candy in his case for the kids to take.

Anybody know where we are? : )

The street artist in action...

Selling wares on the side...

Wedding Pictures!

Mark & Bethany Bloemhard were the photographers for our wedding and we think they did a stupendous job! Here's the link to the wedding album. Email me at byler_maria@yahoo.com for the password or you can text me if you have my phone number. I'm not posting it here.

Enjoy!

P.S. The above picture was taken and edited by Mel. : ) To see Mark & Bethany's pics, you'll have to go to their site.

Fall Time

We've been having a lovely fall. Crisp weather, but not yet really cold. The leaves are turning beautiful colors everywhere and crunching when you step on them. Last Saturday, Isaac & I took three of the younger boys to Fifer Orchards to pick some pumpkins and see what we could see. We had a lot of fun as you can see from the pics. : ) Yesterday, I went back with James, Roshini, Mark, & Jude and we all had some fresh apple cider donuts and a lot more fun. I must say they come highly recommended. We also had Esther and Nathan over for the weekend and had lots of fun with them. I think it is VERY cool having a whole house instead of just a basement or a bedroom to have people over in. And to answer the frequently asked question... "So, how's married life?" I am most enjoying being married to my best friend. I's the luckiest girl there is. : D

Pumpkin Heads : )

I turned into a pumkin head too.

Isaac helped Esther bake her special cookies.

Smil!

Esther is trying to ride the bucking bronco while saving her brother from a wrestling match. : )

Life As A Sacra...

Or at least married to one. : ) I don't know as a personally feel like a Sacra so much yet but i imagine over time I'll at least stop calling myself Maria Byler. Kinda funny to have a different name, but pretty cool. I don't have many wedding pics yet so but here's a couple. For more pics, check Teresa's blog if you haven't done so already. You will have to scroll down though because she is definately better about posting than me and already has several more posts up. : ) Thanks so much to everybody who came and who helped make it an awesome day! ~ Maria Sacra~

Our awesome cake which Teresa made.

Mom & I

The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth...!

or "The case of mistaken identities!

"For the longest time Isaac has been asked on more than one occasion "So, how's your wife doing?" or " How's the little one doing?" and then "How're the kids doing ??!"

If anyone thought that matters would get simpler March 8th after the newest addition to the Sacra family aka me/Maria was announced....far from it!

Now "they" want to know: Why is "Maria" engaged to James! or more embarassingly, "What're you doing with Roshini's husband?!" No kidding!

The final straw is that James and Isaac mix US up!! Seriously!!And we're going, "Umm.....GUYS.......One's brown, the other's not!" Of course both of us realize that it's easy to mistake the Sacra brothers for each other, but when WE get pulled into the tangle of "mistaken identities", we find that a little comical ....

They sure look like family! right...? Not so fast!

And if you were one of those who thought so, you definitely need to scroll down ...

As someone once said...."Life is not "TheTempest", Neither is it "A Midsummer's Night Dream". It's just "A Comedy of Errors", So take it "As you like it"!

It's our version of a "Who's who" :) We've had fun with it and hope you do too!

Our side of the story

Just for the record

they do work well together...

I'm not sure who's idea this was ...but they're sure not feelin' it!

The options...

And the options again...

who HIM ?

NOT HAPPENING!

NOW you're talking!

(Maria + Isaac) + (James + Roshini) = SANT

P.S. o dear! Mark JUST said, "Let's go make a smoothie, Maria-mom!" NOW where'll we be??!