December Church Activities

There are lots of fun church activities in December for the youth. Since I am now a youth leader, I get to see what they're doing, if not plan and participate in the activities as well. 

Dec. 10

We did a gingerbread decorating contest for our combined activity Tuesday night. The kids were randomly paired off. I made the frosting bags before the activity, someone else pre-made the graham cracker houses, and everyone brought their own treats for decorating with. Some of these pictures I took, and some were sent to me. The kids had a great time decorating, there were a lot of kids that showed up so overall it was a very successful activity:

First place for Cosette and Elisa!

Gabe and Camrie's creation. 

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Dec. 14 Here are pictures from the ward Christmas party. It was fine. There was an ugly sweater contest, but none of us won. Erik wore his silly cow sweater we found at Walmart that had a pocket for a wine bottle. He tried putting a Martinelli's sparkling cider bottle in the pocket, but it was too heavy. The party had the usual--crafts, meeting "Santa", dinner, and some musical numbers. Thankfully, I didn't have to do anything for the program this year. There was also a short nativity play that Ian's primary class put on. It was costumed, but Ian only wore half the costume I sent him with. I guess he didn't want to wear the beard. Unfortunately, we couldn't hardly hear most of the kid's-and Ian's-- line when they went up to the microphone. Oh well, they were all cute regardless. I liked the hot chocolate song that the choir sang, I've never heard it before but it's a fun song. 

Ian enjoys doing crafts

Some pictures with Santa. Elisa was off with her friend Lily, so we weren't able to get a family picture.

 

The hot chocolate song

Ian's nativity play

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Here is the organ intro (plus some of first verse) that I slaved away on, and then the night before the Christmas Sunday meeting, I decided (aka chickened out) against doing it. Oh well. Maybe the next Christmas I'll be brave enough to play it. I played the organ for the Christmas meeting, and it stressed me out a lot, but it went pretty well. The video was too large to post here, so here's the Youtube link:

https://youtu.be/NlRpD7v6uy8

The program for Christmas Sunday sacrament service. I wish I had a recording of the piano/organ duet, but no one ever thinks to get one. Ian and James did well on their duet.

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December 17

We had a little bit of money left in the YW budget for one final fun activity of the year: Top Golf. It was fun, I guess. I don't really like golfing though; I thought bowling would be a better activity. We were able to use Gabe and Erik's passes so Elisa and I could get in for free. That freed up some money so that we could buy some donut holes and nachos for the girls. 

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