"Daughter of a King"
Last night we had our Enrichment Relief Society Birthday party! It was so great. The theme was "Daughter of a King". I was one of the ones in charge of putting it on. I have been planning for weeks, but was really busy for the last few days. Of course when I've got something that big, the house gets neglected and the kids a bit also. When I got home last night at 9:30, the house looked like a bomb had gone off in every room. Guess that's what happens when you don't clean for 3 days and 3 rambunctious kids have free rein! Luckily the house is in order again and I'm a happier mommy!
For the party we had 2 young men escort the women into the cultural hall and down the "red carpet" stairs. The room was decorated with formals (provided by the young women), flower vases in the center of the tables, petals down the length of the tables, and tiara's around the vases. Some women in the ward brought their "fine china" for us to eat on. We served chicken cordon bleau, baked potatoes, craisin strawberry salad, rolls, raspberry slush and birthday cake with ice cream. It was so yummy! After the dinner we had a program. Since the theme was Daughter of a King, we had people acting out different times of a person's life with a narrator in the background talking about each stage of life and how it pertains to our purpose here on earth. There were also people that sang songs that went with each time. There was a girl coming down stairs, like she was coming from heaven, a mother with a baby in a blessing dress, an eight year old in a baptism dress, a teenager writing in her journal, a sister missionary packing her suitcase, a woman in a temple dress standing in front of a mirror, a mother playing with her children, a grandmother looking at a family scrapbook, and an old lady that had died and was going up stairs to heaven. I was the woman in her wedding dress. I know...don't know how I fit into it after 4 kids, but yeah I was! It was a beautiful night and the women felt like "Queens" for a night. I'm glad it's over, and even more glad that it all went well. We have a great ward!
For the party we had 2 young men escort the women into the cultural hall and down the "red carpet" stairs. The room was decorated with formals (provided by the young women), flower vases in the center of the tables, petals down the length of the tables, and tiara's around the vases. Some women in the ward brought their "fine china" for us to eat on. We served chicken cordon bleau, baked potatoes, craisin strawberry salad, rolls, raspberry slush and birthday cake with ice cream. It was so yummy! After the dinner we had a program. Since the theme was Daughter of a King, we had people acting out different times of a person's life with a narrator in the background talking about each stage of life and how it pertains to our purpose here on earth. There were also people that sang songs that went with each time. There was a girl coming down stairs, like she was coming from heaven, a mother with a baby in a blessing dress, an eight year old in a baptism dress, a teenager writing in her journal, a sister missionary packing her suitcase, a woman in a temple dress standing in front of a mirror, a mother playing with her children, a grandmother looking at a family scrapbook, and an old lady that had died and was going up stairs to heaven. I was the woman in her wedding dress. I know...don't know how I fit into it after 4 kids, but yeah I was! It was a beautiful night and the women felt like "Queens" for a night. I'm glad it's over, and even more glad that it all went well. We have a great ward!
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Also, don't you hate how you put in hours of work, then you have to turn around and put hours more in to clean your own house? Oh I hate that!