Costumes Costumes Costumes

Well Halloween is coming up this weekend and I thought I would post about what the Farley family does during Halloween.  I don't get super excited about celebrating ghouls, goblins, the devil and stuff like that.  Its kind of scary. I am more of a cutesy halloween person.  My pumpkins are usually out and thats about it.  But, I do embrace trick or treating.  I love being a safe house for kids to come and get candy AND I get to meet fun families in my neighborhood.  I love getting to see fun creative costumes as well.  On top of that...who doesn't love having a huge bowl of candy sitting in their house!  I will probably go to target and get Piper (my dog) a costume.  She will be sitting in our living room looking out the window at all the children...so why not make her festive for all to see.  One of my favorite things about halloween is that the day after all the wigs and costumes (non- ghoulish) are on sale.  Its time to go shopping for the camp skit closet.  Plus tons of websites put some creative ideas up for costumes that I can maybe rely on for camp parties!  Here are a few for you.

I found this one at dollar store crafts:  DIY costumes
ABC News put a few cutes one up here
You can always rely on Martha Stewart to pull through on costumes.  Look at these here.

What Would You Do If You Could Volunteer for a Year

Hey gals!  Some of you know that I have two blogs.  On my staff blog I posted about a contest I found on Ikea's webiste. I thought I would share it with you! Ikea is a furniture store.  If you live in Atlanta or Dallas or Houston or Chicago you probably have been.  Anyway, Ikea is doing a contest that will give someone $100,000 to better society.  You could start a non-profit organization ( a charity) for anything you want OR you could use the money to volunteer your time for a year.  Maybe since you are in school you could give that to someone who is a missionary.  You could sponsor a ton of kids at Kids Across America.  Maybe there is someone in your community that needs the money.  You could even start a charity.  There was a Kanakuk Kamper that recently raised money for kids in Haiti!  I think I would go to Haiti for a year or maybe go overseas for a year or two.  My husband has some non-profit ideas.  What would you do?  Maybe you should sign up!.  Click here to sign up.

Tim The Former American Gladiator and Kamp Videographer

Okay many of you have met Tim the kamp videographer.  You might have see him win NBC's American Gladiator.  You might have seen one of his camp videos.  One of Tim's hobbies is to enter video contests.  He has won a few and here is a new one.  This is for some type of breath spray.  He "re-did" the scene of the movie Titanic.  Here it is!

My Almost Smart Car

So, I am traveling again with Kanakuk and I am loving being in Dallas.  I miss my hubby and my sweet piper but its fun seeing people out on the road.  All of us on the Dallas trip have to be everywhere at the same time so they decided to rent me a car.  So I show up to the rental car place to pick up my rental car.  My confirmation sheet (the page that proves that I rented a car online) said that I would be getting this car or a car like it

Its a small car but it is four door andcan seat four and I was excited to drive it around dtown.  When I showed up at the Rental counter they said that I was going to get this car.

What?  A smart car?  In Dallas?  On Dallas Highways?  Can you imagine me in this zipping around big Semis?  They could squash me.  An hour before I could have cared less what car they gave me.  I literally said as long as it gets me from point a to point b it didn't matter....well, I lied.  I just couldn't do the smart car.  So I upgraded and it only cost me 10 dollars more.....total!  Here is my ride for the rest of the week.

So, if you think you see me in Dallas...Honk!



Where is Reno Again?

So sorry that it has been since last Tuesday since I have posted!  Out on the road I don't always have access to internet.  I know, I know that every place has internet but I am always coming and going so I don't always get a chance to stop.  Here is a fun pic at Oklahoma State Univeristy.  Here are some of the counselors that work there!  Is any of these gals your counselors?

Where's Reno?

Okay, I am sitting in a student center at a certain college interviewing staff for Kanakuk.  I interviewed some great gals.  When I walked in I saw this trash can.  I am not at the University of Oklahoma so I was curious why this was at this school.  You could clearly see the OU but I couldn't see what was around it.  I knew that it wasn't going to be nice.  So, where do you think I am?  By the way, this is not a person's trash can.  This is a school funded trash can.  So what school would have this trash can in their student center?  I will give you a hint....think halloween colors.

Where's Reno

Last Friday I was in Fayetteville interviewing Kanakuk Staff for summer 2011.  Do you see your counselor or kitchie?  This is a pic of the girls from U of A.  Up next?  I don't know you will have to check back tomorrow.  All the girls in fayetteville talked about how much they miss you!