FMBC Fall Festival 2014

Today after church, we held our FMBC Fall Festival. We started with lunch followed by popcorn, cotton candy and candy...lots and LOTS of candy!

 After lunch, everyone got together to decorate their candy bags. After all, you've got to have something to hold all that candy!

Then everyone went into smaller groups to rotate through all the games and activities. Our girls' group headed to the Duck game. In this game, you picked up 3 ducks and based on the numbers on the bottom of the ducks, you got pieces of candy. Here is Bekah showing the duck she picked.

In the next classroom was the "Apple Toss" game. Red Balls took the place of apples and you got candy for each ball you got in the basket. The balls were rimming out of the basket so Pastor Brent took it upon himself to make it even more fun!

This game was probably the hit of the festival. This was the "Bubblegum Pie-Eating Game." Yes, you found a piece of bubblegum in your "pie", which was a bowlful of whipped cream covering the gum. To win, you had to find the piece of gum and be the first to blow a bubble. I included pictures of all the groups because everyone had so much fun with this game.

Here is the girls' group getting ready to start.

In the middle of finding their gum...

And at the finish!

Between trying to keep up with the big girls and get pictures of everyone, I did not get a picture of the apple bobbing and the gourd relay. Next year, maybe I will catch those.

Bethany had a great first Fall Festival. She slept the first half and watched all going on and cooed and "talked" through the second half. Thanks to my friend Sarah for helping to keep up with her during the event. Here she is napping and during the cakewalk.

 
Our little pumpkin enjoying her first Fall Festival!

Yes, we finished with a cupcake walk. Bekah did quite well during this! She won 5 cupcakes and that was not even going up every time her number was called. Here is her big sister, who was very excited when she finally won a cupcake. They will certainly have a chance to share this week since we brought home 7 (yes, SEVEN) cupcakes!

Thank you so much to all our youth, cadets and church members who planned, helped and attended our Fall Festival. This event was a blessing to our family and many other families too. We are looking forward to Fall Festival 2015!

We are thankful to our local Kroger in Lexington as well. They were so kind to donate pumpkins for all our attendees to paint as part of our Fall Festival.

Pumpkin Painting

Today was a very special Sunday for us! It was a great day for our Fall Festival. In addition, the first Sunday in November also marks our anniversary Sunday at Faith Mountain Baptist Church. Today is our 3rd Anniversary here at FMBC. We are very blessed to serve with our church family here and thank God for His blessings to our family in the past 3 years!

Our 3rd Anniversary at FMBC, November 2, 2014

"Oh give thanks to the Lord, call upon His name;
Make known His deeds among the peoples. 
 Sing to Him, sing praises to Him; 
Speak of all His wonders."
1 Chronicles 16:8-9

October 31st

Our littlest Princess

 Today we headed to downtown Lexington for their celebration. We did get a few pictures of the girls first before we added all the layers they had to wear with being outside. The 80 degree weather definitely seemed far away today even though it was only 3 days ago!

 We were blessed with some Cinderella dresses when my family took us to Disney World last summer and so the big girls were "Ella" also. Cinderella is Bekah's favorite princess and she has called her Ella since she could talk.

 These pictures of the big girls really made me stop and take a deep breath. First of all, how did they get so grown up so fast!! Then I realized that in just a few years we will be taking pictures of them on these stairs in their Real big girl dresses getting ready to go to an event! This is when I ask the Lord to help me treasure every moment because they all three are growing up so quickly!

We finally made it to downtown Lexington and the girls wanted their picture made with every character we saw. We also saw several friends from church and their dance classes.

 We also had requests to stop by and see some of our church family who works downtown. Thanks Mrs. Debbie and Mrs. Marlene for the treats and extra candy!

The littlest Princess taking it all in

                                           

After we finished up downtown, we headed to our friends Matt and Molly's church for Trunk or Treat.

 The big girls got their picture with their friend Hannah. Both Hannah and Aleah looked precious in their monkey and lion outfits.

 Molly snapped a quick family picture for us. Yes, Bethany is in the stroller. She decided to sleep through her first Trunk or Treat.

 The girls got Lots of candy and even some neat things like popcorn and pencils.

Thank you Coiner Family for inviting us! Our family had a lot of fun!

Our littlest Princess catching a nap after all the excitement. And Mommy has the candy bags to give out the candy a little bit at a time. The big girls made sure they had plenty this evening when we got back! What a fun day the girls had!

Pumpkin Painting and Fall Decorating

Rachel, Bethany and Bekah's pumpkins

 In October, we have been extremely busy, but the girls and I have managed to fit in a few art projects too. Brent had an event one Friday and was out for the day and the girls and I had some errands to run so we stopped by Michaels on the way back to pick up craft pumpkins. Both the big girls painted theirs and Bethany and I had a little fun trying to get her footprints on a pumpkin. I am looking forward to using these to decorate in the fall again and again.

We usually go to downtown Lexington for their events on October 31st. Rachel was trying to decide if she was going to carry a basket or bucket when we went. I found these small bags at the dollar store and thought they would have fun decorating them to take. They have had a blast decorating these!

 

We also had a friend who shared on Facebook that the nearby Chick-fil-a was doing Pumpkin Painting on their patio at the end of October. It was free and I knew the girls would have fun.

 It was definitely fun! Bethany even "painted." I basically held her arm out where she couldn't paint herself and then let her move her arm all around. She actually got a lot of paint on her pumpkin. It was so cute!

 
 Here is the finished product.

I so enjoy creating and crafting. Both Rachel and Bekah loved art projects as well and we hope Bethany will enjoy our projects as she gets old enough to join in too. We had such fun celebrating fall with these projects this month!

Our little pumpkin wearing her pumpkin shirt