Fall Festival - with GGM

Every year, our Christian homeschool group has what they call the "Fall Festival", which has been held at our house for the last 2 years. Our group is not big into Halloween, so the kids don't dress up - we just have a big old party and it's tons of fun!

We had:

• a chili contest
• hay rides (a special thanks to the Larkins family that donated their truck/trailer/driver)
• a smores station - we set up our fire pit for the occasion
• picture station
• plenty of pot luck items...yum!
• last year, we had a scarecrow contest...we missed that this year :(

Here are some pics to mark the occasion...

We start out with our picture station...doesn't it look great?!

Next, we have our fire pit and smores stations.

 This year, we placed the smores station a little to close to the fire pit (not thinking, of course) and most of the chocolate melted to soon - it was a mess :(

Smores are supposed to be messy anyways, though, so oh well, lol

On to the food...

We start out with the chili - everyone who wanted to enter the contest, brought their crock pots full of yummies. The cute purple bags for the votes were perfect.

A tasty selection of desserts...

 Plenty of drinks on hand...

As for the hayrides...I have some great pics of the kids, but for privacy reasons, I won't post those.

I got some excellent family pics also (of the group members' families), but I won't post those either.

We had a smaller turn out this year, than last year - several families stayed away, due to illness (they were missed). Those who did attend, however, seemed to have a great time, so all was a success!!