Haloween Festivities

The Seiad School put on a carnival / party for the school and community to give kids better options other than trick-or-treating (in the pouring rain) this year.  My eldest daughter became quite involved in helping organize the carnival.  I wondered last night as I was manning a booth at the carnival, "How did I get pulled into this when I already have 150 other things that are more important than this?"  Then, I looked over to my daughter who is growing into a fine young lady, who was working along beside me, and I realized amongst all the crazy, I was building memories with my daughter that I won't regret.  After all, it was her (& she had some help from her bestie, who is our neighbor and come after school 2 nights this week before the party) who made all 12 jello brains for our booth, wrote me a list of everything I needed to bring to school (which was all together for the most part), put together the gift bags, wrote down a schedule of the time we were to have a brain-eating contest (we drew names from a basket), and made signs for our booth!  I enjoyed watching to see how independent and responsible Treva has become, and may I say, headstrong and perseverant?!!  While I would have liked to have more time with my "littles", it was an enjoyable time for all and a great outcome! 

getting ready to go to school for the party

Princess Bella

See his shirt?!  Woody!!

jello brain

First brain-eating contest.

Katreese (Pippi)

Laura manned the fortune telling booth!!

besties

donut eating contest

another contester for the brain eating contest.

I love the faces!!

Princess Eden making her friend into a mummy!

Treva and her bestie, Anna, doing the
donut-eating contest!

Bella visited the nun at her booth, where
she threw balls to get a prize!

Eden's turn

Katreese getting her face painted at a booth! 

Very pretty!

Treva getting her fortune told! 

Eden's turn - love her face!

Treva, the football player

I did not get pictures of every booth either!  There was such a great involvement from the parents that really helped the carnival to be a success!!  I might add that the brain-eating contest was to get as many "internals" from in the brain by only using your mouth - no hands in  2 minutes.  We put in fruit, gummies, worms, etc!  A fun, and yes, busy, and yes, crazy time was had by all!!