The Women's Christmas Dinner fell on Friday, December 6th. My mom and I were both asked to lead tables again this year. Because we all needed to be there at different times we ended up taking 3 vehicles to church. Michael took Jack in the truck and left first to go pick up Justine. They need to get to church early enough to set up for the men volunteers. Owen needed to come home early from the event since he worked the next day so he and Zeke were gonna take the Ford Fusion. Ella and I didn't need to be at the event until later so we were going to take the van. When it came time for Owen to leave he couldn't get the Ford Fusion to start. Unfortunately the last time Jack drove it he forgot to turn off the dash cam so it sucked the battery dry. Here I was already dressed for the evening and I was having to help teach Owen how to jump start the car. Plus I had to block the neighbors driveway in order to jump his car. It was dead dead and took me revving the engine for about 5 minutes before the car would finally turn over. I had never even open the hood on our 2023 Honda Odyssey before and once I got his car started I couldn't figure out how to close the hood. I was dropping it just like I would for cars we've had in the past and it wouldn't close. I ended up having to ask Google and the trick was you had to drop it from at least 12 inches where I was just dropping it from around 3 - 6 inches. It just wasn't enough force.
I decided to use my Old Country Rose place setting again. I love any chance I get to use it!
I basically did the exact same place setting I did last year with the exception of the gifts for the ladies being a little bit different this time. I asked Michael's cousin to make the ornaments again, but this time I had them make 4 different kinds and each kind had a corresponding hymn that was printed in the background. You can see the ornament in the above pictures with the wise men on the camels. They turned out so beautiful!
Michael is the one that heads up the men volunteers and my boys always volunteer, but this was Justine's first year volunteering. Ella had been wanting a new dress for the occasion so we went out shopping the day before. We ended up finding this dress at TJ Maxx...so pretty!
By the time Ella and I got there the boys were all busy with different tasks so I didn't get a lot of pictures of them.
Mom was leading a table and helping at the registration table. It was too much though...she said she barely felt like she was able to talk to the ladies at her table. :(
Pa was also helping out the guys by serving.
These are the 3 guys that made all the wonderful food that we ate that night. It was all so yummy!
Just outside the kitchen in the hallway was where everything food related was set up...all the salads and desserts got plated out here.
Here's the registration tables and in the background you can see one of the buffet lines there were actually two to help all the ladies get through faster!
We sang some Christmas Carols prior to be dismissed to get in the buffet line.
My precious girly!
Mariah McCleary was our speaker and she did a great job. She just has a way with words!
The food was I think the best we've had ever, the music was so festive and the speaker was encouraging. This is always one of my favorite nights and it definitely didn't disappoint.
At the end of the evening we stayed around to help clean up for a bit. I was having Jack and Justine empty the garbage and because of their hats like looked like festive helpers. After that we had to get Justine home so he could get to sleep since he had a wrestling tournament the next day.
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