Showing posts with label Church. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Church. Show all posts

Sunday, August 29, 2010

Weekend Parties

Every year the staff at our church throws a "Dream Team" party to thank all of the people who have volunteered throughout the year. Now that Vince is part of the staff we had the opportunity to help serve instead of only attend, and it was actually a lot of fun!

The theme this year was State Fair and Vince I worked at the bottle toss booth.

During dinner we waited on a few tables and I also found volunteers for the pie eating contest.

My family was well represented because I got my sister Hannah to volunteer, and I signed up my cousin's Husband, Sam, while he was away from the table.

I will never do that again! Even though Sam won, he still ran off the stage and smeared his chocolate cream pie covered face onto the side of mine..... I smelled like chocolate and my bangs were sticky for the rest of the night!

One of the funniest games for the evening was when some volunteers covered our pastoral staff with whipped cream and then used squirt guns to "shave" it off.

However, the biggest hit of the evening was the mechanical bull riding that took place in the center of the room.

On Saturday we were able to celebrate my niece Ramzee's birthday with a party at Build-A-Bear.

Deklan picked out a cuddly puppy and I had the idea to name him choo-choo because he's obsessed with trains and that's what he calls them. I told Vince and he had an even better idea. We named him "Chew-Chew" since he's a puppy.

Grafton wanted to name the black cat he picked out Levi (of course), so Vince named him Levi #99 seeing that all of his toys and his fish already share that name.

After Build-A-Bear we went to the food court where the kids snacked on Dilly Bars and Chocolate Chip Cookies.

We thoroughly enjoyed our weekend parties, but once we got home from church on Sunday we spent the rest of the day taking it easy!

Saturday, February 27, 2010

The Price is Right

For my church's Girl's Night Out this month we played our own version of "The Price is Right". We started out the evening by having an Italian Dinner and then started the game.

There were 80 girls in attendance and the contestants were selected by having their names drawn out of a bowl.

Instead of participating in the audience, I was able to help "model" the prizes.

Even though our prizes were not quite as big as those on the show, our enthusiasm was just as high.


It was great spending the evening having fun, eating good food, and enjoying the company of friends.