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Warning--another long blog with pictures. Last night was Parade of Bible Characters. The pictures begin there. It was absolutely hilarious and a lot of fun. The clues are always very interesting. It's chaotic, but a great learning tool for the kids (and adults too!).


Maddie and Audra pose as they wait to go "on stage". They make pretty cute Spiritual Gifts! Brad wrote our clues and did a great job! Sheryl and Dawn did a great job on the "gifts"! Maddie was the "gift of compassion" which is definitely true for her. Ella was at home sick. Bless.


The fellowship hall and long classroom hall are places of chaos as the parents try to round up the kids and get them lined up all while keeping up with their clues! This is our good friend, Daniel Green, with his youngest daughter, Caroline.



Maddie teamed up with Audra and Carmen Crisler and went as "Spiritual Gifts". They were so cute!! However, as M.C., I was definitely stumped again. Philip Henry commented that the title of the evening should have been, "An Exercise in Old Testament Ignorance". Perhaps we'll change it next year.




After the parade of Bible characters, Miss Janet read a story to the boys and girls called The Spider and the Scarecrow. It's about God's gift of friendship with Him and with each other. Afterwards, she prayed over all the children.




Maddie and her buddy, Darcy Colvert, posed for a picture after the festivities were over. Darcy's mommy and daddy are very involved in the music ministry here. Sonya is a wonderful singer and Bobby plays about 5 million different instruments.










This morning Maddie and Ella had their school parties. There are some great pictures of those too.



Maddie and Ella woke up excited this morning. They couldn't wait to put on their costumes and walk out the door to school!!






Maddie's class had yummy treats and fun games like smashing baby plastic pumpkins. Seriously. What in the world???






Maddie and Sydney Williamson are in the same class and love hanging out. They were both princesses this year. What 4 year old girl ISN'T?












Ella loves Ms. Betsy's class! She had all kinds of fun crafts for their party today!





Ella and Avery are big buds. Avery's daddy, Gabe, used to work for the record label we were with.






The school kids always come down to trick-or-treat. Doug and I went all out this year. Actually, all the upstairs office staff went all out. We wanted to make it special for the kids as each class from the school came around for treats! I had to convince him not to play howling wolves on the stereo. We settled for creaking doors and Michael Jackson--which was scary enough. We had the dry ice going and reached into the pot of smoke and pulled out candy for them. They all thought it was really cool--well, most of them. Jacob Donnelly gave me a look like I was the most terrifying thing he'd ever seen. But I'm used to that from most people.







Maddie and her class came down the hall and stopped at all our offices to ask for candy.

On the whole, we don't really like celebrating "Halloween". My mom's always preferred "Harvest Day" or some title like that. But, the teachers did a great job of explaining that what we're doing is dressing up and pretending. It's fun for the kids without all the witches, goblins, blood and weird stuff.



One week from today I head to Abilene!! Yeee-Hawwww!!! I can't wait! I've been viewing the films I'm supposed to be judging. There is some great work represented! More on that later. Have a great day!