New Years Eve-Eve Dance!

Saturday, December 30, 2018

Three weeks before News Years, Adam and I were called to plan and do the New Years Eve dance for 14 stakes in our area.  Having only a few weeks, we jumped in head first! We were able to do as much as possible before the week of Christmas so that we could just enjoy that time with our family but the week after Christmas was dance, dance, dance.  Every minute of everyday it seemed we were focused on the planning of the dance. We were so glad when the day came and went without a hitch. It went sooo well and we received a lot of compliments. It felt good and it was a lot of fun to spend that time with Adam. He took a lot of time off that week from work and we used it to run errands, build things, plan and pull it off.

 Invitation (made by one of the members of the youth committee) that went out to all the stakes.

 The building of the balloon arch. This was a joint effort.  Could not have done it without Andrea Flowers and Ryan and Jenni Cain. 

 Let the set up begin...Adam and I Set up for a couple hours Friday night rearranging rooms and moving couches and deciding which activities would go in which room. Saturday morning all the action happened. We were at the stake center All day minus a couple hours to run a few last minute errands and to shower and run back. 

Awesome Sign out front to greet the youth courtesy of Ryan Cain

AROUND THE WORLD!!

The Entrance...the arch turned out amazing!

 Some of the other decor and activities!

 Directional sign to different countries around the World!

 Karaoke Room

 Ways to say "Hello" around the World.

 Card Games

 Video Game room

 Gentry and Hallee trying out the rooms before the youth arrive.

 Kerry Bang had made 12 different landmarks from around the World for Grad Night and we were able to use them this night as well. 

 Twister, yard Yahtzee and giant Jenga

 Board Games.

 Food Room

 Times from around the World!

 Photo Booth

 70 Book of Mormon's in 70 different languages.

 Ping Pong and Foosball

 The Gym

 Flags from around the world filled every wall and empty space. 

 Balloon Drop in place with over 800 balloons. Adam and Ryan were instrumental in installing this and making sure it would actually work.

 They poured in by the busloads. 

 Everyone room was busy all night....

especially the dance floor. We figured we had around 800 youth there that night.  The party went from 9:30-11:45 when we pulled all the youth into the gym for the final countdown and balloon drop. With fingers crossed Adam and Ryan pulled the string and balloons rained down on the crowd. It was Awesome. They were then directed to the heritage building for breakfast from 11:45-12:30am. As soon as they were at breakfast clean-up began. Like a million tiny ants people came together and that entire church was put back together, garbage's taken out, decorations taken down, furniture put back, game tables loaded on trailers and floors vacuumed and mopped in 2 hours. We thought we'd be there all night and we were home in bed by 3:00am.  Such a GREAT night!