One was our new pastors daughter and the two good friends of Amy's. It was fun watching them all giggle, joke around and enjoy themselves. We made 4 dozen candy apples in orange, red and purple. Then the girls cleaned out 6 large pumpkins so that Pastor Paul and Jay could carve them later. Here are a few pics from the afternoon and evening.
Amy and Emily making candy apples
Emily, Amy and Ali
Emily goofing around
Amy, Emily and Ali cleaning out pumpkins and playing with the inside goo.
Pastor Paul (right) and Jay carving away.
Last night our youth group hosted a costume party for the little ones of our church and then after that they had their own costume party.
Everyone came dressed up and I mean everyone!
What a blast. We had ten little ones show up in costume with their parents who were in costume as well. There were games, activities, stories, treats and lots of visiting. Our dear friend Kevin came as a bag of Jelly Beans lol.
Near the end of the children's party we played a game called "Pop the Pastor" and the little ones took tiny push pins and popped all Kev's balloons. Imagine the giggles and laughter as these little munchkins popped the balloons and little bags of jelly beans fell out. Very fun and very cute. Thanks Kev for such a great idea!
There was a donut eating contest where they had to eat a donut hanging from a string while keeping their hands tied behind their backs. My son, Simon, won that little contest and received to his delight a handful of caramels to add to his growing collection of treats. A friends little girl came in second a minute or so after. It was so funny, I stood beside her to help her eat her donut by allowing her to press the donut against my side. I wish I had a picture of it, but my hands were kinda full at the time :) I knew there was a reason for my belly lol.
These are a few pics of Jay, Amy, Simon and myself
Hubby as a long haired rocker dude
Amy as a fairy
Simon as Han Solo from Star Wars
My little family
This is a picture of Jay with our good friend Jeanette. She came as a ditzy blonde valley girl type. Very authentic and she even acted the part to a T.
Some of the girls in our youth group and the youth leader, Richard. Notice the distance they are standing from Richard and more noticeably the expression on Katie's face at the far right? These girls DO NOT like clowns. Poor Richard, he wasn't very popular with those of us who have clown issues LOL.
After the childrens party was over we progressed from kiddy bible songs to teen Christian music and games. Lots of laughter, running around and good clean fun. We played a few games including the donut game. Around 9pm they started watching the movie, The Village. Some of the boys had fun scaring the girls and I especially got a kick out of the fact that I scared one of the boys by accident. I was just walking behind him and he saw my shadow. WOW, did he jump. So funny especially since this isn't even really a scary movie!
After a pizza intermission we finished the movie and then had everyone draw a number for a gift. The local Christian radio station, UCB 102.3 had donated a bunch of cd's, a t-shirt and a game for the teens. Each teen received a gift. Again thank you Kevin!
After cleaning up the downstairs, I got home at 12:15am. Bed at 1am. Sleep after 2:30am. Woke up at 4am to Amy. She had two friends sleepover and the one who was sharing her bed, Emily, pushed her out of bed! Too funny. So Amy went looking for somewhere else to sleep. Ended up sleeping in our bed with her head at the foot and her feet at the head (it works somewhat when you have 3 adult size people). Of course I only dozed from that point on until 7:30am when I gave up and got up to make coffee.
It's 10:12pm and I'm still going. Must get some sleep soon. We have church in the morning. At least we get to turn back the clocks and gain another hour of sleep.
Another thing:
Jay leaves tomorrow afternoon for Brampton for a week of training in his new position with Lowes. Very excited for him. He is finally getting out of the construction trade and going to be working indoors with BENEFITS! Woohoo! This is a big change for him and he's really looking forward to all the new possibilities.
So I can't go to bed yet. I still have to cut Jays hair and help him finish his packing. Oh well, I'll go to bed early tomorrow night and maybe sleep in Monday. One of the perks of homeschooling? Sleeping in occasionally just means working on lessons a little later in the day. I think we all need a little sleep in.
