Sunday, November 1, 2015

Happy Halloween!

 We had a lot of Halloween fun all week, starting with a trip to the corn maze with 4H Monday night.  This is one of the few pictures I got of Jack since he spent a lot of his time in the maze.

 Alice and I tried the maze a little bit.

 What she really liked, though, were the hay bales.

 They were open just for our group and we got to roast hot dogs and they had hay rides and a haunted maze (which Jack loved).  It was a fun night!

 Wednesday night the kids could wear a costume to youth group, so Jack decided to make himself a Jack in the Box costume!

 Alice got to wear her costume to her PE class, too!

 We went to Bass Pro Shop to have pictures taken and make a craft.

 Friday we went to IHOP for the scary face pancakes.

 We also carved our pumpkins and watched Halloween shows that night.


 Saturday the kids were ready to trick or treat.

 Since I went with them, we left a box of candy for trick or treaters.  Hopefully the first person didn't take all of the candy!  (You'll notice we never got around to giving our scarecrows heads...)

 We started in our neighborhood, but there were a lot of houses where people weren't home.

 So after we finished in our neighborhood, we went to Jay's sister's house.

 Jay and Jack were moving fast, so the girls went separately.

 Their stashes!

After the sorting and counting, it turned out they had their best year ever--Jack got 255 and Alice got 150!

Happy Halloween!

Monday, October 26, 2015

Pumpkinville


 Last Wednesday we left early for a trip to Pumpkinville!

 We got there a little before they opened, so we spent some time walking around the gardens.


 This year it was arranged like a town.

 
 There were different areas set up all over with different activities.




 We spotted a Lichtenstein scarecrow in the Art Gallery!


 There are lots of great picture spots!


 Alice calls these cattails "giant earwax things".

 Alice said that when she walks down the side of the big hill, she looks like Elmo walking.

 They always like the games!


Turtle soup!
 


 We had planned to go on Friday, but I'm glad we didn't wait because we would have been rained out.  It ended up being perfect weather for our trip!

Sunday, October 25, 2015

The Way and the Truth and the Life

Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life.  No one comes to the Father except through me."  John 14:6

Saturday, October 24, 2015

4H

 This year one of the new things we're trying out is 4H.  (This was the night of the Most Green Contest!)

 They meet once a week and usually have a speaker or an activity.  One night a K9 officer came and showed off some of the things his dog could do.

 Another evening, a dad from the group brought his scout troop to demonstrate how to build a camp fire.

Once they got their fires going, they got to make s'mores.

 The younger kids got to join in on the fun, too!

 Alice is in the Cloverbuds group, which had their green night last time.

She got to write secret messages, build marshmallow towers, and have lots of fun!