Category: Blog – Celebration

This Saturday was our annual bake-off. Every family makes a dessert and has a commercial to “sell” the dessert. The night was filled with laughter, fun and yummy food.     Award for Best Skit

Last week was Broomball night! We cleared the chairs and tables from our Dining Room, set up goal posts, chose teams, and with our brooms and running shoes proceeded to have a wonderful night of fun.      

  This is our second year doing an Advent Walk; during the walk we have different scenes set up around one of the lawns illustrating the story of the Nativity. At each scene we stop, read a portion of scripture and listen to a song that illustrates that scene. We work our way around in…

This year’s Harvest Party theme was superheroes. The week before Harvest Party, we carved pumpkins to fit the superhero theme. A Gotham City skyline, an eight foot city skyscraper made from cardboard and various superhero symbols were our decorations.  The costumes were very creative as most were handmade. It was a fun night with food,…

Last week was our annual pumpkin carving night. This year’s theme was super heroes. We had many different types of carvings ranging from Larry-Boy to Superman and Doctor Octopus. It was a fun, messy night together. Here are the finished, lit pumpkins   Here is a template that was used for the Angel pumpkin.

This Friday we played a few games that rely heavily on teamwork. For the first, we had to all sit in a circle and all stand up at the exact same time without using our hands for leverage.   The second game was a conveyor belt. We had people line up in two lines and…

This Friday we celebrated April Fool’s day. Everyone dressed up and we had a fun time playing games and fellowshipping.

For this year’s Harvest Party we decided to do a science fiction theme. The week before we carved science fiction pumpkins to display at the party. The teens made the decorations: planets and a huge AT-AT Walker made out of spray painted cardboard. Everyone dressed up in science fiction themed costumes, all of which were…

This year we decided to make our annual Harvest Party a space/science-fiction theme. With the party being only one week away, we made our pumpkin carvings space themed as well so we could use them in the decorations! We broke up into teams of twos and threes and started carving away. After two hours of…

Lately the kids (and some of the adults) have been playing different sports after dinner and before celebration night. This past Friday’s game was football. These are some of the pictures that were taken during the game.