Sabbath Education Week and Fall Festival

Last week all week the kids at the school learned and practiced songs to perform for the Saturday Sabbath service at church (Nov 9th).

The Kindy-2nd graders learned
played bells and sang a song... which of course my child "can't remember" because "It was a long weekend after Saturday I just forgot it"

The 3rd-8th graders learned

Come now is the time to worship

I will sing of your love forever

I want Jesus lifted high

 Their principal also did a puppet show which was cute and the a few of the girls did special music too!  After that, the congregation invited us to share a pot luck meal with them.  Very kind of them and very tasty too! 

We got home near 2pm-- time enough for a 3ish hour nap before getting up for the Fall Festival at the kids school.  Those newly installed gym lights were put to very good use for a festive and fun night with new school friends!

The kids were quick to discover the corn filled kiddie pool.... as were countless others.

They were entertained by the non-games until my volunteer time was over at 7pm.  Then we played all the games, and all their favorite games multiple times!

Gee-Whiz, toilet paper toss

Coca-Cola Bottle Ring Toss with shower curtain hooks was much harder than it appeared

Jayna with her "water pistol" water bottle knocking down her targets

The ping pong balls were held up by golf tees

Ant ended up knocking down 4 of them

Pumpkin Lolly Pop pick: the end of the lolly pops were colored and that determined your prize.  Both kids got small candy first.  Then Ant played two more times and won mini footballs.

This was easily their favorite game, and Jayna came back to it more times than we shall mention, while Anthony replayed other games-- especially the pumpkin and hayride

I can't believe I failed to take some rather important photos--- but I was trying to keep up with two excited kidlets and not spend too terribly much... so with that said I missed the impressive Chilli display, a picture of my heavenly brownie-- no ordinary brownie and Mr. Billy auctioning off the baked goods, which was amusing with his fine culinary art descriptions- haha.  All that to say Jayna in true loyal Jayna form ONLY wanted her Grandma and Poppy's chilli and so out of 20 options that was hers.  Anthony and I true to our insane picky nature chose none.  The brownie I got was well worth the admittance fee OF $5.  YES I do think it was that good!  And we all had lemonade.  During the auction we ate and enjoyed the petting farm area.... ok well Anthony couldn't have cared less about the animals but Jayna and I liked them, especially Hannah!

Then it was back to the festival fun after the auction ended.  We headed for the hayride.

It was soooo stinkin' cold but quite fun to go on a hayride around the neighborhood

 Jayna and I gave it two thumbs up-- even if we could no longer feel those thumbs, especially for certain children who won't wear coats... Crazy!  Anthony had fun with the boys joking around, throwing hay and singing that fox song that annoys possibly everyone but me... because some people like me haven't heard their kid sing before this past year when he started... so yes I approve of annoying songs too :-)
Near the end of our ride a high schooler was goofing off with an older teen rider.  He went to wail a mini football at him... Anthony's head got hit instead.  It left a nice wely on his eye and bruising for a day and a half... yet no tears, instead a tad stunned for sure and then a giggle... Boys!

swollen eye, and still cute

 We came inside to get more tickets.  Ant wanted to play the pumpkin game again but all the lolly pops had been picked.  Luckily we were allowed to buy one of these coveted punching balloons.  Note to Beth-- stocking stuffer requirement....

Anthony chose to go on a second hayride with his boy buddies.  I am far too freezified to do that twice.  Jayna and I found more games instead!

a very rosy cheeked Jayna with her amazing teacher Ms. Jeanie

Jayna warmed up by the "campfire"

The dessert stand was quite cute

Jasmine escaping the fence to help "clean up" the scattered corn from the pool

Then we found out there was more fun outside!  So Jayna took her nachos and cheese to wait in (a very long) line for Mr. Doss's haunted classroom maze!  It was during that wait Anthony returned quite unhappy from his hayride.  His coveted balloon was popped... for the record a certain mother HAD warned him about taking the balloon on the ride!  Unfortunately there were no more balloons for sale, but he survived and got in line for the haunted classroom too.  Afterwards Jayna wanted to do the maze again while Anthony chose to bounce and flip solo in the bounce house.

We had a great time!  Hopefully it was a successful fund raiser as well.  It was now a tad after nine so we headed to mom and dad's house to visit with Uncle Alden who had come to see the Appomattox historical sites.  The kiddos spent the night there while I headed to work the third shift 11-8am.