Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Big Kids Christmas Party

On December 26, we hosted our annual Big Kid Christmas Party.  Sarah plans a menu weeks in advance, and we have lots of fun preparing for the big event.  The evening was filled with eating, games, dancing, and more eating.  Instead of a gift exchange with our friends, last year we came up with the idea to pool the money we would have spent and donate it to Gospel for Asia, a Christian relief ministry.  To change it up this year, we held an auction with items ranging from T-shirts and notebooks to small toys and food.  Most of the items were in the "white elephant" category, but everyone got into the spirit of giving and had a lot of fun with it.  We were able to raise over $2000 to donate.  The evening was a huge success!

Sarah's beautiful creation.

The food

The gang





The games



One of the highlights was begging Grandma Janey and Grandpa Bob to show us how to really swing.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

That was an awesome night! It was the night I first leeched on to your family...(I was going to say it was the first night I met most of you, but actually that had been John's party a few nights before)

To bad I missed out on getting shown "how to really swing."