For 2 years now our small group has had a "Front Yard Festival" for Halloween. Our church encourages small groups to hold these festivals in one of our yards so we can meet our neighbors and be a presence in our neighborhoods. It's pretty easy for our group to be a presence in the neighborhood since 3 out of the 5 of us live in it, with two of us living next door to each other. The festival is primarily held in the Renshaw's front yard but occasionally we spread out a little bit into ours. It's a lot of fun because our group gets together early in the evening for a cookout and we have a fire pit we sit around. Then when it gets dark and trick-or-treaters come by to visit we offer smore materials for them to make their own smores in addition to our candy.....parents just LOVE us ;)
This year the ladies of the group decided to go 80's style.
Kenee', Kristan, Meagan, and Me
We decided Kenee' and Meagan were the preppy girls
Kristan was the sporty girl
and I was the artsy girl.......ha ha!!
Matthew and Me
Bryan in charge of grilling the meat.....yummmmmm!
Once it got dark Matt stood over Bryan with a flashlight so Bryan could see if our meat was finished cooking
Neighbor's gathering around the fire pit to make their smores.
Bryan's mom showed Matthew how to make a smore.
Some of us decided to go say Hi to the Brewer group across the street
Matthew going Trick-Or-Treating for the first time!!
I'm helping him pick out candy, aka the candy I like :)
Member's of our small group at the Festival
Matt and Kenee' Dover, Jon and Meagan Dover, Trey, Kristan, and Kailey Renshaw, and Us
Mark Stigers came as Big Bird for the 2nd year (he's in the Brewer small group across the street), he's a huge hit!!
Bryan, Matthew, and I
Matthew with Bryan's parents
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