Neighborhood Fall Festival

Our neighborhood has started the tradition of having a Fall Festival in October. It's a great time and it's right in front of our house. We live at the back of the neighborhood in a culdesac so it's the perfect place. We built our house 8 years ago and we were the 2nd house in our community. So everyone whose on our street and around us - we know.

Our homeowner's association puts the festival together. We have a hayride, a dunking booth, a bounce house, a cake walk, pinata's for the kids, popcorn, and lots of hotdogs and drinks. It's a costume party so most people dress up and that makes it fun.

Here's Ben in the bounce house ....

 Andy in bounce house

Andy loves LOVES monster trucks - so imagine his excitement to find out the bounce house was a monster truck. He was thrilled!

Will : )

me and Kuma in the background

Kuma and Andy looking at the festivities

Kuma's dressed as a skeleton. Isn't she cute : )

David said Kuma would be humilated in this costume.

She wasn't humilated - she was pure sweetness : )

Kuma, Will, Andy and I

Kuma, Andy and David on the hayride

Will and big spider

We typically have 2 pinatas. One for the little kids and one for the big kids. First one: Spongebob.

Here's Andy taking his turn : )

Will taking his turn : )

 Ben taking his turn at knocking Spongebob down : )

Still around the pinata's. But funny, all 3 of my boys are in this shot : )

Some candy fell out. All the kids coming to get it.

2nd pinata: A red powerranger (well half of it anyway :)

Andy

Me and Kuma walking back to the Festival (from home)

On the hayride: Will, Scott and Jacob

Ben's taking his turn at the dunking booth. He threw his ball and it's in the air next to the kid in the gray shirt.

Remember me posting about my frontdoor being ditched knocked at 11pm at night about a month or so ago? Well - see the kid in the gray shirt? Yep - it was him! Doesn't even live in our neighborhood. And the good news is .... later - he was on the hayride w/me .

And believe me - he won't be doing that again.

Kids bobbing for apples.

On the hayride (in motion). I am in white shirt and sunglasses and Andy's in orange and white striped shirt : )

Ben in the dunking booth. He's brave ....

and he's hit.... there he goes : )

And here's my wet boy - still happy : )

Hayride and a view of the festivities ...

William : )

Going home: This is blurry - but I thought it was funny b/c this is the way Andy hangs onto me. Not by holding my hand - but by always grabbing the back of my shirt.

The party was fun. All the kids enjoyed themselves. They didn't dress up this year -which was okay. Ben wanted to do the dunking booth and Will wanted to play in the bounce house - so we opted for no costumes.

All the work that our neighbors/HOA put into it - was Awesome and Much Appreciated! Thank you guys! We all had a great time (as usual). Can't wait for next year!