Saturday evening we had our branch Christmas party. The YSA (young single adults) group planned it, and they were pretty awesome. It was a Grinch theme. And let me tell you, these people get into their theme parties :) You'd have thought it was Halloween! Lillian was the impressive one in our family - she wanted to make a green nightgown for the party, but lots of other things got in the way until an hour before we needed to leave. She found a spare green pillowcase and some other green flannel and sewed herself a nightgown in 45 minutes. No, it doesn't have finished edges, but it's cute and fun, and VERY Seussian!
One of the YSA's dressed up at the Grinch. At the beginning of the party, they announced to watch out for the Grinch, because he might try to steal your food. He snuck around teasing kids He scared the daylights out of Sam when he sat by him - Sam didn't know who it was, and was sure this weirdo was going to do something nasty. After dinner, we did a service project making sandwiches for homeless people. Then they gathered all the kids to watch an ASL version of "How the Grinch Stole Christmas". When the story was over, the Grinch's good-friend-who-is-a-girl ran to the front and yelled (in ASL), "Oh no, look, all the food is gone! The Grinch stole it all!" All the sandwiches we'd made had disappeared! Then Brother Filiatreault told the Christmas story, and the Grinch came back and said his heart had grown listening to the true meaning of Christmas. He blew up a red balloon to show his heart growing 3 sizes. Then he took a bag off his back and gave all the kids treat bags. It was a pretty epic Christmas party!
Hats off to our fabulous YSA's for planning and putting on a wonderful party. We all had a great time, and the kids will remember it forever.
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