pumpkin fair!

Today we were at Roland's Pumpkin Fair, We were in the kid's area, doing face painting and giving out balloons for donations towards our volunteering program fees. This was our first fundraising project, and it went great! We would like to thank all of the parents and kids who came out and got their faces painted and balloons blown up. It was so awesome to see all the smiling kids and happy families. This was my first pumpkin fair and I LOVED it!

We ended up getting almost 15% of the way to mine and Kyle's goal of raising $3000.00. The funds we raise will be going towards our volunteering fees which are split between our home-stay family while we are there and our volunteering site - the orphanage school. So, I just want to say thank-you again, we feel so blessed to have been able to do a fundraising event at the fair. Thanks Michelle!!, and also thanks to Kyle's sister, Erin who helped out with face painting! You rock!

As soon as we got home from the fair, Kyle hopped in the grain truck and went into the field. But I caught up with him long enough to take a pic of our facepaint - I gave him a dinosaur and he gave me a heart. Also - in this picture you can see Kyle's Kenya t-shirts I made for us to wear while doing our fundraising - Mine looks the same, i'm just too short for it to be seen in the picture.

Most Original Face Painting Request: A John Deere tractor on one cheek, and an International on the other. CUTE!
Most Popular Face Painting Request: A pumpkin!

We are down to 58 days left until we go, so if you'd like to see us before we go, Kyle will be in and around Carman, and Kate will be going to Thompson for the rest of October and some of November, so if you are there - visit her!

That's all for now, check in on us later for more updates!

-Kate