Showing posts with label All Saints Day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label All Saints Day. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 25, 2015

A Very Busy Day

On the day after Halloween, which is All Saints' Day, we started our very busy day by going to the Open House at Dan's work, which is Beechcraft (part of Textron Aviation).  We got to tour some of one of the buildings, play all kinds of carnival games, and eat lunch.  There was no picture-taking allowed inside the building, but outside there were airplanes to look at!

Posed in front of one of the airplanes.

This one's got teeth!

We got to go inside a business jet.

More airplanes.

Dan explained the parts of the plane to the kids.

We had a fun time checking out Daddy's work!


 That same day, in the evening, we went to our homeschool group's All Saints' Party.  I helped the kids come up with saint costumes to wear. 
Anthony as St. George, Catherine as St. Agnes, Joseph as St. Joseph, Anne as the Blessed Mother, Dominic as St. Dominic.

Mary and Joseph with Baby Jesus.

Lining up for the Saint march.

Off they go.

Oh, when the Saints go marching in...

Time for games!

St. Anthony's Lost and Found.

Another St. George with his very large dragon!

Anthony was thrilled to get his hand painted.

Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Our Saints In Progress

On November 2nd, our homeschool group had an All Saints Party to celebrate All Saints Day, which was the day before.  So after some thinking (and borrowing of costumes, thanks Cas!), we came up with the following saints:
Catherine as St. Kateri Tekakwitha

Dominic as St. Gabriel Possenti

Anne as St. Faustina

Our "saintly" twins.

Joseph as St. George, and Anthony as the dragon.

St. George ready to slay the dragon.

By the way, Dominic has a gun in his belt because St. Gabriel is the patron saint of gun owners.

Love this picture of my little saints.

Finally at the party!

Each saint told who they were.

There were lots of different saints.

Lots of fun games to play.

Faustina and Kateri waiting patiently for the next game.

Some of the older homeschool kids set up a catacombs, where you could walk through and each early saint would come to life and tell about himself or herself.  It was really neat, all dark, with candles lit and the scenes set.  The older kids did a really wonderful job, and it was so much more awesome than I can describe.