Ward Christmas Brunch

This past Saturday morning, our ward at church had a Christmas Brunch. We had breakfast casseroles, pastries and hot chocolate followed by a Christmas message from the Bishop and the Primary children singing Christmas songs. It was a really enjoyable morning. So many people from the ward came out. Our ward had an "Angel Tree" out in the hallways of church for a couple of weeks prior to the Brunch where you could select something to donate to a family less fortunate. We brought all of the gifts unwrapped to the party and wrapped them together afterwards and took them to these families and sang carols. It was a neat experience and a fun way to do service together as a ward. I love how our Bishopric makes sure that we incorporate a service project in our Christmas activities. We did it this year and last and it really makes the activity more memorable and special. After all, thats what Christmas is about-giving and being Christlike. Here are pictures from the party...and from the marshmallow war that ensued...

Ella and her friend enjoying some hot cocoa together

Cali stroller-bound. We let her run free for awhile, but we got tired of chasing her, so we had to be mean and tie her down:)

The children singing their Christmas songs for us. They did a fantastic job!

While the adults were wrapping gifts, I helped with the marshmallow throw to keep the kids occupied(I'm on the activities committee). It was a HIT and the kids had a blast throwing marshmallows at the bishopric snowmen.

Heres Aubrey trying her hand at it.

Here goes Ella.

Then the adults got into it. The men in particular. They had more fun chuckin marshmallows at each other than the kids did:) Marshmallows were everywhere! I even got smacked by one in the head.

This picture just cracks me up. One of the wives is confiscating the marshmallows from her husband:)Katie and I were the marshmallow police. We tried to run the marshmallow game the best we could but it got a little out of control once the men got involved. Then is was an all-out marshmallow war. It was fun though:) Everyone was laughing.

The gift-wrapping scene

And this is just a really cute picture Joey took of a mom helping a little boy pick up a gift. Joey takes pictures of the activities for me to put on the church bulletin board(one of my activities committees jobs that I need to stop slacking on. I haven't updated the board in a while-oopsie! Sorry guys! I'll get on it.)

I love our ward!