Fall Festival!

It's fall! And around here that means we buckle down with Jenna to put on the best fall festival around!

Hot air balloons, pony rides, face painting, dancing, haunted houses, pumpkin decorating, cake walks, jumpies, cotton candy, dunk tanks, games and food galore...you name it we had it!

The girls loved the pony rides the best.....

And the best part for the kids is sharing in on all the fun with their friends!

It was Riggs' last fall festival as a Goshen Gator ( que the tears......)

The face painting was amazing!

and Jeremy was the man of the hour...his 20 minutes in the dunk tank turned into 2 hours as the XC kids lined up to take him down!

It was an amazing festival.... it was so much fun and we made a lot of money for the the best school in the world!!!

Goshen Fall Festival 2011

We have worked on this fall festival for almost a year.....Jenna has put her heart into every detail of it and I have been right beside her. We started making it all come together into a reality with the first ever haunted house...or light less literature tour in our haunted library! Hours and hours of work and rolls and rolls of tape later we transformed the library into something spectacular!

 On the day of...sure there were a few glitches...our stage was a truck...but with a yellow skirt and some hay and balloons it was perfect!

 the foyer was transformed for photo shoots....

 We literally worked all day...non stop...to get this together! At the last minute Jenna and I ran to the bathroom in the school together...put on fresh deodorant...sprayed the strongest smelling body spray we could find all over us...changed.... and were back out the door to welcome everyone to the festival!

 I was over joyed to welcome my littles to this event...it's why you work so tirelessly....for these sweet faces!

 I was also the auction chair so I asked dad to come be my auctioneer....

 Jeremy who had been gone all week....was home! He was able to stop by for 10 minutes before he had to leave and go back to work for the rest of the night! So sad!

 A year in the making....and it all payed off into one perfect, fun night! We did it all...Lila loved the pony rides the best!

 Everyone loved the Haunted House! It was a big hit!

 SK loved the cake walk! She played it over and over....

 so hopeful!

 until finally she won!!! She chose Halloween cupcakes!

 We hung out with friends on hay bales.....

 Had a successful auction....

 Enjoyed our family......

 and new friends.....

 Had treats....shaved ice....cotton candy....popcorn....

 we slid....played football.....danced....painted pumpkins....played games....and rocked glow stick necklaces!

It was just so much fun!!!!

 We were the last in line to get our faces painted....

 Lila was beyond excited to be transformed into a puppy!

 JuJu chose to be a puppy too!

It was a success! I am so proud of Jenna! It was an amazing night and we raised a lot of money for the school!

Goshen Fall Festival-2010

Tonight we headed out the Goshen Elementary Fall Festival....a flurry of pumpkins to decorate, cake walks, face painting, dunk booths, pony rides....and most importantly all the kids' friends...and so many of mine!I had the kids all cute and decked out in their first Halloween gear of the season...ready to enjoy the festival as a family.....and then it happened...if I could insert sound effects this is where you would hear the record scratch...interrupting the song you love. When we got there Riggs ate with us and then asked with pleading eyes if he could go off with his friends....and with a breaking heart, I smiled...gave him some tickets and watched him walk out the door with his friends.....and away from me.

 I later saw Stephanie and she asked where Riggs was and I told he was off with Alex and some more of his friends...she saw the sad in my eyes and simply said..."you have 3 more!"....so true. I just see him growing up so fast in so many ways all at once...so I enjoyed watching him from a distance with his friends and enjoyed in close proximity with the other three. I will admit that Lila's excitement every time she picked a duck from the duck pond really helped ...precious beyond precious!