4H Christmas Party (& More!)

Jack has had a busy fall in 4H!  At the beginning of the year he ran for Junior Representative and won!

Helping with the bulletin board at the county extension office.

 

The Most Green contest!

 

Selling paper clovers at Tractor Supply Company for National 4H Week

 

Parking cars at the fair to raise money for the club

 

Making tutus for Joy in the Cause

 

He made this game for the fall festival!

 

They got to have a cookout, too.

 

And there were lots of fun games!

 

Learning safety skills

 

Helping out at a Cloverbud meeting

 

Our congressman, Jim Bridenstine, came to talk to the kids about Veteran's Day.

 

Making a smoothie on the blender bike

 

Packing food boxes at the Salvation Army

 

He was interviewed when we did this...

 

...and he made the news!

 

Last week they had their Christmas party with a Dirty Santa game.

 

A visit from Santa!

 

They even had a snowball fight!

Cloverbuds

Alice has had a fun time in Cloverbuds this fall!  One month they made dog puppets.

Mavis Pearl (the real one) visited that evening and the kids have all been working to make tutus for the stuffed dogs they hand out.

In October they had an apple night and made these cute clay apple pies!  We used the idea for our FIAR ornament exchange for How to Make and Apple Pie and See the World.

 

Lots of yummy apples to eat!

 

Mustache face painting at the fall festival!

 

She's also gotten to help do a lot of things with the older kids, like helping to put up the bulletin board at the county extension office...

 

 

...and helping park cars at the fair...

 

...and decorating the clubhouse Christmas tree...

 

...and packing food boxes at the Salvation Army!

 

The had their Cloverbud Christmas party a couple of weeks ago and they made ornaments.

 

They decorated a teammate as a Christmas tree!

 

Chatting with Santa

 

Snowball fight!

Ice Skating

 They put up a new outdoor rink downtown, so yesterday we tried it out with some friends!

 He makes it look so easy!

 Frozen kids!

 The lights were so pretty!

The sunset was amazing--this picture doesn't even come close to how beautiful the sky was!

Happy Thanksgiving!

 The night before Thanksgiving we had our traditional snack tray turkey with pumpkin pie shakes.

 Followed up with a Charlie Brown Thanksgiving meal while we watched the show!

 Thursday we had dinner at Jay's sister's house.

 Playing darts!

 We decided to put up the tree when we got home.  This is Jay's ornament this year.

 Alice's

 Jack's

 Mine

Once we had it all put up we watched the new Anne of Green Gables movie.  It was a great Thanksgiving!