Halloween Night at Life Community Church

A few years ago, we found a local church that puts on a free Halloween night celebration. They offer free hot dogs, caramel apples, popcorn, snowcones and cotton candy. They have free paintball target shooting, rock wall climb, gyrascope, pony rides, bounce houses, face painting, and a ton more, especially for littler kids. They usually have a pretty good Christian rock/alternative band playing too. After enjoying 2 years in a row there, they weren't able to do it last year. We were looking at a community calendar page online this year and realized just a few hours before it started, that they were running it again this year. We drove over and really enjoyed it. I wasn't feeling well, but we went anyway and Logan & Jordan had a ball. (Adam was at a friends' house for the night.) We only got to stay for an hour because we were meeting Tim, going out to eat to plan our holiday gift-making ideas and holiday plans, then met friends at Mountain Valley Church for the Hallway of Horror. (That's for another post - best scary event EVER, and at $5 for unlimited admission - best value I've found this YEAR!)

Anyway, here's the photos of the free event - the cutest thing was the petting zoo. It had baby goats and baby pigs that were just FOUR DAYS OLD!!!

Helping out at a local Food Pantry

Jordan's part of a group called God's Girls. They're 9 - 12 year olds who are homeschooled and belong to the same homeschooling group. This past weekend, one of the Moms concluded a month-long canned food drive for a local food pantry. Since I don't have anyone's permission, I won't share names, or the other girls' photos, but Jordan was certainly just one of the many who participated. They unloaded the food, listened to all the food pantry does, how they work to service the community, then they stocked the shelves, and learned about how boxes are made up for families. We had a great time.

Jordan has her own food drive she's been running for a month at Mountain Valley Church to benefit the Phoenix Rescue Mission, but we'll be bringing that food down this week - last week just didn't work and I was really sick for a few days. I'll post those when it happens - also, we're considering volunteering at the Mesa food bank, through the United Way, just a few hours a week, but times that by the 5 of us, maybe we can help make a difference.