Trick-or-Treat 2008

The Caruvana kids went trick-or-treating up and down the street tonight. There weren't many people home on our fifteen-family cul-de-sac. Stephen was dressed as a dalmatian.

Syndi was dressed to match her American Girl, Molly.

Junior was Spider-Man!

Julia was a pumpkin.Notice that Julia has "learned" to smile.
We're trying to de-program her.

We Voted! Did You?

We did early voting tonight.
We took all the kids and went down to the Civic Center and only waited in line an hour to vote.
Our kids did pretty well, and were good entertainment for the crowd. Friends of ours who'd arrived about 45 minutes before us had had waited 75 minutes to get through the line. We expect Tuesday's lines will be much worse.

Vote Early!

Vote Often!

Oh, wait - you only get to vote once.

Crazy Hat Nite at Awana

We had Crazy Hat Nite at Awana recently.

Our kids made their own crazy hats.
Some of the leaders wore crazt hats, too.
It's a fun night the kids enjoy.
(And the leaders, too...)

Coosa Valley Fair 2008

We made our 5th annual trip to the Coosa Valley Fair recently.
Junior and Stephen had fun on this little ride.

I wish you could have seen the shock on Stephen's face when it made its first drop. He looked
terrified for 2 seconds, then loved it the rest of the way.
A roller coaster for the kids.
Syndi and Stephen are in car #2.
Junior rode near the back of the coaster and was a little scared.
Dumbo takes Junior for a ride.
Or maybe it was the other way around!
Syndi won 1st place for a bracelet she crocheted.
She was quite proud (and so were we!).
Junior won 2nd place for some fudge he made...
...and 3rd place for some peppers he entered.
(We were very proud of him, too.)
He, however, was extremely disappointed.
We had to plead for this somewhat straight face.
(He's a very driven young man.)
Cesilee Blackwelder (who came and helped us with all the children) and Stephen rode in a swing.
The swings went round and round.
Junior made a very long trek through a pirate ship to go down this very long slide...

...and, of course, Stephen had to follow.
The family picture!

This was our 5th trip to the fair in our four-and-a-half years in Georgia. Julia did great. She didn't get to ride any rides because she was too small, and we were there for 4 hours!

Junior getting a real buzz!
Aubrey (left) and Cesilee (right) came to help us with the kids.
They were a great help and a lot of fun. I couldn't count the number of times Stephen ran off to a different ride (he was very excited) and Aubrey chase him down. In fact, it got to the point where I only knew Stephen had run off because Aubrey began to jog off in a different direction. ("Umm, there goes Aubrey...Stephen must've run off again!")
Thanks, guys, for going with us!
We didn't get to ride the ferris wheel this year, but it still looked really cool towering over us.
Another great year at the Coosa Valley Fair!
Until next year...FAIR-well!