Ward Christmas party

Neal and I were in charge of the ward Christmas party.  Of course, I called Lynda Ann and begged for help.  I told her that the theme of the dinner was "Light the World".  We wanted to follow the church theme for the month of December.  Annie immediately started coming up with all kinds of ideas for a hand out and for decorations for the dinner.  The night before the dinner she came in with Abby and Hayley to decorate the cultural hall.  Within two hours they had the hall festive and decorated.  We borrowed lanterns from Nanette along with some small tree stumps to set the lanterns on.  Annie bought some little lights to put in each lantern and then decorated the lanterns with holly and ribbon.  On each table she had made signs that read "Light the World" and at the end of the serving tables she had signs that said, "Give as Christ Gave".  The hall was absolutely beautiful and I will be forever indebted to her, Abby and Hayley for all their help.  Lynda Ann always comes through for me no matter how busy she is with her own projects.  We also decorated a place for Santa and the kids to have their pictures taken with Santa.  She made these little Christmas ornaments for each person to take home and hang on their tree to remind them the 'light the world".  200 of them!!

 This was the area we had set up for Santa and to have pictures taken.

The evening was a huge success, thanks to Annie!