Sunday, February 14, 2010

Valentine’s Banquet

This year’s youth group Valentine’s Banquet was bigger and better than ever before thanks to Andy Bernard’s fantastic catering skills and a terrific youth group! We had 54 people RSVP and raised a lot of money for the Acquire the Fire and Great Escape trips this spring and summer. Thanks to everyone for all their hard work and to those who supported our youth group! (I also want to thank those of you who posted pictures that I could “steal” from FB, since I didn’t take very many)

Although it was a bit harried at times (thanks to the fact that the ovens tripped about every 2 minutes or less when we had the stove working, we could never make coffee fast enough,  and getting about 50 meals out all at once) and Chris and I (mostly Chris) did dishes for about 4.5 hours, we had a BLAST!!!

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v-day dinner 05the hustle and bustle in the kitchen

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v-day dinner 03the youth stayed hoppin’ waiting on tables

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orange chicken

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roast pork

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Renee also did a good job with the entertainment

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everyone enjoyed the “Valentine’s Game” (a version of the Newlywed Game)

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Chris and I are still doing dishes…

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the chocolate-strawberry cake was beautiful and delicious

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thanking everyone for coming

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our AWESOME cooks: Andy & Shawna!!!

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Will and Tia are enjoying the bucket ‘o cake that Andy made for the youth from the scraps

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but bucket cake and all that hard work makes ya thirsty :o)

2 comments:

CJ Olson said...

Looks like fun!!!

Anonymous said...

Looks like a good time and a good meal! We didn't go to ours last night. We were OK with that decision, it worked out really great actually- we played a game of Scrabble instead and dare I I "domininated", that's what Leif said!! Good job,you guys are awesome!