Scenes from the MOPS Christmas Party

On Monday, December 12th, we spent the evening celebrating Christmas together at MOPS. We had such a fun night of food, fellowship, crafts, games, and plenty of laughter! What a wonderful way to celebrate such special season!

Lindsey kicked the night off with a reading of the Christmas story from Luke. Such a meaningful way to remind us what Christmas is all about!

Then it was time to get our craft on! The mamas from LIFE group could not agree more!

We had 3 craft stations set up. We made homemade bath salts (not the illegal kind, folks! We're a family affair here!) Jen P. loved shaking up her bath salts!

We also made peppermint marshmallow stir sticks to make our hot chocolate and coffee SOOOO yummy! My favorite were our glitter ornaments! Thanks, Heather, for all of the fun crafts! We could even do these at home for our friends and family!

Then it was on to the Ugly Christmas Sweater Contest! And I must say we had a room full of very ugly and tacky Christmas sweaters! Ladies, you outdid yourselves!

Some were just as ugly coming as they were going!

The winning sweater, as modeled by Stacy P., and the winning sweater's owner, Kendra B. in her lovely kitty sweater (meow)!

Now that the winning sweater was declared, it was time for fun and games! Kimberly put together some of the best Christmas Minute-To-Win-It games and we all had fun playing, laughing, and cheering our MOPS mamas on to victory!

Heather, trying to squash the competition! No fair cheating!

Brittany L. and Amanda L. rocking the Merry Christmas Nutstacker game!

Sheree and Robyn working their hardest to get that darned cookie to their mouth! Not as easy as you think!

Almost there!

We hope you all had a wonderful night at our first Heartland MOPS Christmas celebration! We loved every minute of it (some loved it a little TOO much!)

Merry Christmas from your Heartland MOPS steering team! We can't wait to see what 2012 brings to our MOPS group!