Fall Fest

On Sunday, we had some families over for a "Fall Fest". It was a ton of fun! The kids and I planned the fun fall themed games like pin the nose on the pumpkin, pumpkin buckets, bean bag toss, toss the hat on the scarecrow, pick a lollypop, paint a pumpkin and more. We had somewhere around 8 families come over and since their families are alot like our family, that meant there were ALOT of kids (somewhere around 50, I think).

The kids got to earn tickets by playing the games and then were able so "spend" their tickets to get their face painted, paint a pumpkin, buy a glowstick, or save them to spend at the prize table.

Noah and Ellie painting pumpkins.

The neighboring fields harvested their beans earlier than usual this year, so Paul was able to give the kids hayrides around and through them.

The bigger boys (Caleb and Seth are now considered bigger boys, I guess), spent much of the time playing football. They loved having enough friends over to actually form teams!

After it got dark, we headed over to the bonfire. It was windy and had been looking like rain all day up until our party. All morning, we were praying for the weather to change, and as soon as the party started, the sun came out periodically, the wind died down and the temperature was perfect. Not long after we started the bonfire, we could hear thunder, and after about 30 minutes of a perfect fire (good job, Paul), the rain started. It would've been nice to get in a few songs and s'mores, but all-in-all, it was a great day!