Oct. 21, 2008
Fall Festival 2008
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OK it has been a long time since I wrote on my blog and it is time to get at it again. We just had our 7th Annual Fall Festival at our house. This year we had ( the best we can determine) 114 people. It was a fun night but different from our other ones. Some of our favorite families were missing or parts of them.We especially missed the Hingles and Meyers. They have been coming to our Fall Festival for 5 or 6 years. We had several new families that had never been to our house before so it was fun to meet them. We didn't really get to talk to them too much since the Fall Festival is a crazy time for our family. For those who have never been to our party, I will describe it. We play volleyball, of course. Mostly the older kids and whatever adults want to join in. Some of the guys play football. I coordinate games for the younger kids. We do things like Marco-Polo, sharks and minnows, drakes and drums, freeze tag, and circle dodge ball. Some years we have played tug of war but the folks who brought the big rope couldn't come this year. We were suppose to do sack races and 3 legged races but I forgot. (If it isn't written down...) We roast hot dogs,roast marshmallows, and make s'mores over an open fire. And we talk a lot. As more of my daughters leave home it gets more challenging to do this. I have a hard time doing the games and greeting people who are bringing food. We will have to work on that- IF we do it next year. I say if, because I am not sure we will do it again. It is a lot of work especially when your work force is shrinking. It takes days to get everything ready and then there is the clean up. We had some friends who loaned us their kids for set up on Saturday morning and some folks stayed to help clean up which was nice. We do enjoy meeting everyone and getting to see friends we might not see very much. The kids enjoy the games, the hot dogs, and the s'mores. We were thankful for the nice weather on Saturday. Some of our FL friends thought it was too cold but we need it cold so the folks don't get too hot roasting their hot dogs. Maybe if I don't loose any other daughters before next fall we will try to do it again. Or maybe someone else will want to do it and we can be the helpers... what about it Misti? Carri? anybody?  Elisabeth L and Miriam getting things ready Volleyball warm up Getting food Roasting hot dogs around the fire Warming up with hot chocolate |
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Oct. 24, 2008 - Wish we could have come
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