Doll House Reno- The kids painted every room in the house and decorated it to their tastes.  I wonder why only girls showed up for this craft. tournaments….and we still have more.

Golf Tournament – 28 players signed up.  Two teams tied for 1st place Team Waddington (Joe, Dick, Irene & Steve McKnight) & Gerry Scarcella, Merf McCormack, Brian Childs & Shawn’s Dooley team.  Because of the generosity of our sponsors, there were enough prizes to go around for everyone.  Some of the sponsors were: Juniper Fairways; Rideau Home Building Centre; Wal-Mart; Staples; Royal Bank in Portland; The Source (Lockwood’s); Sofa World; and Bedzz & Dufresne Furniture (Orleans).

Halloween - The weather held out for the Trick or Treaters….the costumes were creative and original….and "how about those Moonlight Witches"??

Turkey & Potluck - Big thanks to Barb Chalifour & all her helpers for organizing, setting up, cooking and cleaning up…..there was more than enough food for everyone. I don't know how you do it…did you see that crowd…every year it gets bigger and better.

MLB Idol - Give it up for our top 10 !!! I'm a so proud of all of you…Bryanna Liko, Sam McKnight, Claire Murray, Becky Ladouceur, Morgan Nordskog, Emma Graham, Mackenzie Gifford, & Joey/Dylan Stephenson.  Our 2009 MLB Idol winner was 4 year old Madison Fortier.  Coming in 2nd place was Amber Wootton-Mendelsohn & in 3rd place was Reilly O'Connor. What a show!!!

A HALLOWEEN STORY - Learning to be a kid again

This weekend I got to be a kid again and I did it with enthusiasm and great joy.  What started out to be a little dressing up for a Halloween event at a campground - turned into a magical moment that I will cherish and remember for a long time to come.  This weekend gave me back innocence that I lost a long time ago and gave me the gift of being a care free kid for a weekend. It was so very overwhelming and even as I write this, tears stream down my cheeks.  Tears of happiness; tears of growth; tears from my lost youth that have been bottled away only to be ascertain this weekend.  I received the gift to acknowledge my lost youth, let it go and grow.  The little girl in me got to have some fun with the kids as a kid.  This weekend was not about what I lost, it is about what I got back!

Friday evening after work, 3 of my girl friends and I had our annual girl's weekend, which took place at Moonlight Bay Campsite.  Enroute to the campsite I was notified that we would be stopping by the dollar store as we were going to dress up as witches and partake in the Halloween weekend event.  We entered into the dollar store with excitement; picking out our witch items, matching everything together while colour separating each costume.  I chose to be the blue witch.  Sixty-seven dollars and an hour later we headed up to the campsite like 4 little giddy girls discussing our costumes.  The first thing we did was try them on, and then of course we took them off, worked on adding materials to our brooms and modified our outfits.

We had to be at the Rec Hall for judging of the costumes by 4pm, each of us sauntered in a few minutes after each other.  We ended up in the 15 years plus category and we were the oldest kids around!  We didn't win a prize for best costumes but we had the loudest cheers!  After the judging took place we headed out like the rest of the kids and trick-or-treated!  We had 4 matching witch sacs for our candy, which I will proudly tell you I filled mine twice!  As I approached the first place to collect my treats I hesitated with slight embarrassment and foolishness; but was greeted with candy, eagerness & encouragement for our decision to take part in the Halloween festivities.  In fact the next place wanted to take our picture.  As I was posing for our photo tears formed in my eyes, I was filled with delight.  I felt like a kid again.  Light hearted with no cares in the world, well accept I had concerns on who got more candy! Trick-or-treating was suppose to end at 5pm, however, us girls wanted to make sure we hit up everyone in the camp, we finished at 6pm!

Candy in hand we headed back to our campsite to eat dinner and get ready for the 8pm dance.  Of course, we had evening elements to add to our costumes – finger lights to add some flare!  We were the first ones on the dance floor and it only took minutes before the rest of the kids would join us!  We dance all night… Well in kids terms all night! Because let me tell you between the trick-or-treating, dancing and all of the excitement I skipped out on the last 15 minutes of the dance and was sleeping just before 11pm Saturday night!  I certainly didn’t need to be reminded of my bedtime!