Last night the kids and I attended their schools annual "Fall Festival". Each classroom and the gym had different games and activities for the kids to play and do. The prize was candy! Most kids dressed up and it was fun to see all the different costumes. You can see what Paige and Ben are going to be this Halloween! Ben is "Jack Sparrow" from Pirates of the Carribean, whilst Paige is going to be a "Gypsy". I am proud to say that I MADE her costume (Ok, not the skirt!)....The past few weeks, each classroom has been asking for donations from home along the lines of a specific theme (Bens' class was chocolate, Paiges' class was Christmas). Then this week, each class put together a basket with the stuff donated and these were raffled off and the money from each basket goes directly to the class for various things (field trips etc). This is a HUGE success each year and this year was no exception...and Kindergarden made a killing on their chocolate baskets (they had enough donations to make FOUR! WOW!)....There was also a cake walk which Paige was determined to win, and so after six tries (she IS persistent!) she won a tray of cupcakes! Yummers.....so we came home last night with lots of candy....the winnings from the cake walk...and very tired from all the running around (Ok, I was tired, the kids were NOT! hahaha).

Mark was on duty last night and I am expecting him home any minute now (Saturday Morning)...we plan on spending the day out in the yard cleaning up all the limbs and branches etc of the places we cleared this summer. The burn ban has been lifted so you know this means one thing at our house: BON FIRE!

Hope you all have a great weekend!
Hugs

Mark, Jaye and Gang