New Minnesota Beginnings and Ugly Christmas Sweater Party!

Well, where do I begin with telling you all about our new life in Minnesota!? I would say that the biggest key to our new life here has been the Bible study we started attending a few weeks ago. Bible study has opened up so many new avenues in our life...we have met so many new people. I am so thankful for this bible study...we are growing our relationship with our Lord Jesus and also making new friends and awesome memories along the way!

This week our Bible Study had an Ugly Sweater Christmas party with a gift exchange. It was so much fun! Mickey and I went to a store called Rag Stock in the Mall of America to find the perfect ugly sweaters. After two hours of rummaging around the store, we came out with some pretty ugly outfits! (I also was the winner of the ugly sweater contest out of all the girls:)

(Unfortunately this came out blurry!)

We also thought long and HARD (and I mean a couple hours of searching online), for the best Christmas gifts. Each person had to bring a rapped, unmarked gift to the party to put into the middle of the living room. Each person in the room picked a number out of a hat and picked one gift to open. The game rules are long, but it ends up that each gift can be taken only 3 times total, and there is a lot of strategy involved. Mickey and I decided that one of our gifts should be a funny, not-so-desired type of gift, while the other should be a more expensive, nice gift. 


I will share what our funny gift consisted of...
Toilet Time Golf
12 pack of ultra soft toilet paper
Poo Pourri "Trap a Crap"
Poo Pourri Original
**We individually wrapped everything and placed it in a large wrapped moving box :)


The game was a ton of fun and everyone got a good laugh out of our gift. Mickey and I made out well with the gifts we ended up with! What a fun Christmas party and gift exchange! Here is a picture of our whole group! 

I hope everyone has an amazing holiday, and remember that Jesus is the reason for the season :)