Girls Game Night Extravaganza

What a blast the girls game night turned out to be.  Thank you to all the fun girls from across the generations who came out to kick back, play some games and get to know each other better. 

Before the games started, Karen, our fearless visionary and leader for game night,  planned a fun little ice-breaker involving chocolate.  Depending on what chocolate you picked, you had to tell something about yourself to the group.  Angie (standing way back there in the pink hat) picked 'snickers' so she had to tell her most embarrassing moment which I definitely will not be posting here because hers and mine were very similar and I sure would not want mine on here.  Yep, the golden rule is definitely in play. (Well they were similar except for one small but vital detail, right Angie?, which will remain undisclosed except for the 45-50 attendees who heard it in real time) :)    





 Next Karen delivered a really cool devotional message using games.

Gina was like the "talking Bible" interjecting Scripture as Karen shared.


Then the game playing began!  By the way, I loved hearing what every single person shared in the ice-breaker because we have such neat women/girls in our body, but the wisdom that came out of the mouths of these "babes" was especially touching.  So glad so many young girls joined the fun!


This was the "Scattergories" table.  They were so funny. It would have been an entertaining night just to grab a plate of food and listen in on their conversation.


Apples to Apples....this one was new to me....really fun!

 

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Then there was pictionary....

Gestures and Catch Phrase....(I know a smaller version of this picture is sitting right on top of Gina's head, but it absolutely refuses to be removed. So I am relenting and letting it be.  My apologies to the perfectionists :)

And then this super-rowdy game of spoons.  Look at Karen...does she not look like she's totally got something up her sleeve? She is the "game-playing queen".  No wonder she did such a great job pulling off this event!


There they are, the spoon group, getting ready to go after those spoons, and let me tell you, when they did it sounded like thunder rumbling throughout the room. (so much for "daintiness" right?) Check out the hand in the fore-front stealthfully moving into a better grabbing position....(We did pray before we started, asking that in everything we did we'd bring Him honor....I don't know who that hand belongs to....just saying...)
And there it is....the spoon grab...Just too fast to capture on film.  See the spirit-like hand in the forefront?  I'm not sure what to say about that.

 Looky what the young girls broke out.....

Yep, plenty of us knew better than to try to compete in Twister with Tweens and Teens:)



But it was a ton of fun watching them contort all kinds of ways and then fall down laughing.



I loved getting to know this sweet group of college girls better.  They taught Stephanie and I how to play Scattergories after they finished this game of Clue. Scattergories is a risky game to play with a bunch of bright minds like these:) Not to mention all of them except for one are either teachers or training to be teachers. (The other was preparing to be a Vet).  So there was no getting by with anything sketchy with this group!

 
I should of stuck with this game but Carissa would of beat me in it too. Does she not look like a pro hop-scotcher? (I'm convinced we have a lot of hidden talent in our group)

I think Jennifer is giving some pictionary training here...

And of course game night is never complete without snacks!  That's what it looked like at the beginning of the night.  It looked a little different at the end.

Thank you to everyone who came out and made this night a blast!  And again a special thanks to Karen and team (including Edie, Rebecca and Holly) who did an amazing job planning & making this such an enjoyable time. Hope to see you all at our next get together!