'Few Of My Favorite Things' - Damascus Ward Relief Society Christmas Social.

How blessed are we?

When you think of everything we have in our lives, be it, home, family, children, food, or 'favorite things', are we truly blessed? I, myself, will say, yes! Wholeheartedly.

Others may say, oh, heck no. My life sucks, I wish I had this or that, life hasn't dealt me good luck, etc... Etc.

Yet, we are alive. We have our health, our body. Some, however,  have ailing bodies and suffer illnesses, disabilities, etc. 

Now, when you think of 'favorite things' what is the first thing that comes to mind? Books, movies, TV shows, chocolate? Or...the famous song sung by Julie Andrews in  The Sound of Music? 

Well, besides that song and everything else I suggested, 'my favorite things' also means - my church women's, Relief Society Christmas social. And, that is what we had last night. A fun gathering of women, enjoying each other's company, having dinner and cake, talking about favorite things, and just having fun.

This, of course, takes hours, days, and months of planning for a couple hours of fun. But, it's worth it to see everyone enjoying themselves and getting to know each other better. Even if it's knowing someone loves, lemon chicken, lemon rice, sunny days, cloudy days, twirling, singing in the car, having friends, etc. etc. 

We decided this year to use brown paper sacks, filled with a star cookie cutter and a saying from an Etsy site called 'papertagged'. I used my Cricut to make the tags with a little difference and tied them to Christ. 

'For you are one of HIS favorite things.' Instead of 'These are a few of our favorite things.'

I went simple this time around, displaying a few of my fav things - Artwork I painted/drew, pictures, Welsh wool Blankets from home, my dad's cardigan, and slippers. (Today would have been his 82nd birthday today- he passed on the 5th Dec - two days before his birthday last year) The cardigan my mam got me for my 30th and last but not least British chocolate.

Sarah brought a picture of the Temple, Kim brought a statue of Christ, Becky brought her nativity

I had sisters, including myself, make/buy cakes for our table centers which were our desserts.

Sarah made German Chocolate Bundt

Kim got a gluten-free Bundt cake

I did a Boston cream with Ferrero Rocher

Annika made a peppermint cake

Shauna made a lemon cake!

I must say a huge thank you to all the wonderful ladies who helped me set up, Sarah, Annika, Narce, Eunice, and all the sisters who helped clear away afterward.

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Brown Farm Relief Society Birthday Social 2016

Our theme for this years Relief Society Birthday Social was

Few of our favorite things.

I know, I bet you're already singing...

Brown paper packages tied up with string, these are a few of my favorite things,

The Sound Of Music. I had that tune running through my head for months while we planned this lol


So, we went with the Brown Paper Packages as the decor.

I made origami boxes using brown lunch sacks. Tied them with string and added the saying

brown paper packages that I printed off on card stock. Then the rest of the relief society board helped assemble, glue the remaining 60 boxes that I had prepared.

I made a poster from poster board.

Using more lunch sacks I cut out triangles to make a banner.

Bought large brown gifts bags from Zurchers for display on the food table

This was the front display.

I used some of 'My Favorite Things' to display.

Welsh Wool Blankets, Picture of Christ and a picture of the famous

Rain drops on Roses...etc which I purchased from Esty UK

One another table we had the sisters display, 'their fav things'

that they all had a chance to tell us about after the light dinner

For a little decor we strung paper lanterns I also picked up from Zurchers.

For dessert we assigned a sister to bring a centerpiece cake for the table. 

I must say they all looked yummy.

I made two.

A carrot Cake

before and after shot!

There wasn't any left by the time I went to get some lol

And the second one I made was a simple vanilla/strawberry cake.

Cupcakes

Chocolate Oreo creation - that I had. it was so good.

Bundt Cake

Kit-Kat/M&M

German Chocolate

We also had two of the board members sing the song to and after we all joined  in

All in all the evening went great. Great food, great company, great fun.

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