Fall Festival 2012

It's hard to believe we attended our SIXTH Fall Festival today at St. Paul's!

How times have changed.  I used to start making costumes in early September; now we do them the day before Fall Festival.  This year we bought Maren's Astronaut costume, but Derek worked until 4 AM this morning on Deacon's costume:

This year, Deacon wanted to be a news anchorman.

The humble beginnings of DNN.  He even had a working headline "ticker" at the bottom of the screen.

Astronaut Maren takes a breath of Earth air.

Deacon's Live broadcast was really live!

Grace, Micaela and Maren. Micaela was Cleopatra.

The best thing about this costume was that I got to buy Deacon a suit, which he wore willingly. The jacket, anyway.

Maren picks out a prize!

Ms. Hartel read all 6 of Deacon's scrolling headlines. I'll list them below.

After the costume contest: Deacon plays auxiliary percussion in the first performance of the year for the St. Paul's Concert Band!

I worked in the Prize Booth all day.

A movie!

OK, here are the important news headlines for the day on DNN:

ELECTION SURPRISE: FEDS LOWER VOTING AGE TO 10

MR. KOEPPEL: "PACKERS WIN, EVERYONE GETS DAY OFF"

FALL FESTIVAL DUNK TANK WATER TOXIC; TEACHERS SUE

MR. MINDOCK REPORTS COCKROACHES MISSING; POLICE INVESTIGATING

"BRING YOUR DOG TO SCHOOL DAY" CAUSES HUGE LACK OF PRODUCTIVITY

ST. PAUL'S CLOSES FOR WEEK DUE TO FREAK OCTOBER SNOWSTORM