Deaf Branch Halloween Party

Candy, wonderful dinner of various kinds of soups and rolls, (and hot-dogs and hamburgers for those kids who don't like soup), candy, cookies, games, costume contest, face painting, candy, nails professionally done with really cool Halloween designs (I forgot to get a picture of that), pinata, birthday cake for Dave Perkins, oh, and did I mention, candy??  Halloween day hasn't even arrived yet and our kids have enough candy to keep them on a sugar high for weeks.  A big "thank you" to Fred Flintstone (Danny Radford) for heading up this huge undertaking!  We had an awesome turn out and it was loads of fun for everyone!

Halloween Pictures

 

 

Surprise!

You know it is Halloween Season when...

No, that is NOT a scab.  It is a big wad of chewing gum -- or some other type of sticky chewy candy (in Jenna's hair, right behind her ear.  Peanut butter works wonders on gum stuck in hair.  I had it out in no time!

Celebration of Families

Lunch, entertainment, games, prizes, candy, stories, cookie decorating...

And the best thing about it...it was all FREE!!! 

Halloween Party

Group shot with the kids (and the next door neighbor Boots) but without Janika.  She did Janelle's hair and Jaiden's makeup and so she didn't have time to finish getting herself ready by the time we were ready to go.  So Rick brought her a few minutes later.  I'll get in her devil costume later.  

Janelle as Hermoine Granger

Tonight was the ward Halloween Party and Trunk-or-Treat.  Janelle has been wanted to be Hermoine for Halloween for at least the past six months. She is in the middle of reading the Harry Potter series and just played the "Hedwig's Theme" (Theme song from Harry Potter) at her piano recital last Tuesday.  She even has the accent down pat.  Well, she ended up being such a cute Hermoine and I can't believe how much she really looks like her in this first picture! 

 

Storytelling Festival

Janelle participated in the storytelling festival tonight and did a great job.  She was the very first one to do her story and was confident and poised.  She is a great storyteller and uses a lot of voice inflection.  Her story was called "Stephanie's Ponytail" by Robert Munsch.   They don't announce the winners until next week but all of the participants received a certificate and free kids' meal to Del Taco.  They divided the kids into two different groups in two different rooms so that the competition wouldn't last too long.  Below is a picture of the the group Janelle was with.  

Other events today included a Math Counts competition for Jase (and subsequent swimming party to Sand Hollow),  Fieldtrip for Janelle to hear the Southwest Symphony at Dixie College (her third fieldtrip in the last two weeks!), and a fieldtrip for Josh to the fire station.  Fun, fun!