Friday, October 26, 2012

Halloween

Its official fall is here and winter is upon us! its has snowed the last two nights here, not much snow but enough to make anyone excited for the coming months and holidays!


Tonight is the Church's big Fall Fest, we are expecting anywhere from 10,000-20,000 kids to show up tonight. CRAZY!! I will be bringing Mikhail and Khalil with me, pray for me....last year we had a few melt downs. Melt downs aside this is such an awesome FREE event we put on every year. The kids can do so much and get candy. Hundreds of cars will be lined up in the parking lot with their trunks filled with candy to hand out, there will be carnival games and rides, blow up jumpy castles and mazes, train rides, face painting and SO much more. I am so excited for so many kids to get to experience this for FREE! Plus I get to bring the boys and let them go crazy for a little while. Just another reason I love where I work.

Last night at my small group we started making our costumes and carved pumpkins, so much fun! Lately I have been having a hard time with the transition I am in with my role in ministry and well my life in general but last night was a great reminder that God has me right where I need to be. Man He is good. Us girls are making our costumes completely, a first for many of us. We are literally doing this from scratch. We went to Hobby Lobby and bought fabric last night, we got home and started cutting...we immediately felt overwhelmed...how do these crazy crafty moms do this every year for multiple kids?! They are crazy people. I already knew I didn't want to be that mom and now it has been confirmed I am to sane to do this ever again, granted this costume will probably be the cheapest I have bought but way more work then I ever wanted. ha! The reason us girls are working so hard is because at the church every year the college age ministry puts on a party and contest for a Passion trip scholarship. The last two years I have come SO close to winning, two years ago I got second place for dressing up as an old lady (a stinking good one might I add.)


 and last year my friend Brandon and I dressed up as Dog the bounty hunter and his wife (soooo good.) and once again didn't win (the first picture is the real Beth and me, the second is of Brandon and I)


. I don't even want the prize that much (although to have that paid for would be awesome) I just want to win!! The crazy competitive side of me comes out at stuff like this.  So this Sunday night three of my Friends and I will be dressed as Toddlers and Tiaras with our friend Dax as our Pageant dad. We probably wont win but it will be fun.  

So here's to a fun weekend filled with goofy costumes and good friends :) AND CANDY!!