Youth Lock - In!!!

Sunday night was the youth lock-in at church. After we had a special service to celebrate our pastor's 20 year anniversary as pastor, we headed over to the youth building. Once all 72 teenagers were signed in and divided into teams, we were on our way for the photo scavenger hunt. I had a great team of 7 kids. We were given a list of about 200 random and crazy things we were to get a picture of. Our first stop was our house!! Here are SOME of the pictures we took. This is Lauren and Stephanie, two of the senior girls.



A shampoo Mohawk!

Hand in the cookie jar....

someone falling down the stairs....

Cutting a teammate's hair

The entire team under a bed!!

Fluffy Bunny!

Tin foil hats

Teammate with tin foil in mouth!

Bologna mask!

Antiquing a teammate ( a handful of flour in the face)

Teammate jumping into a pool fully clothed!!! It was FREEZING COLD outside and Aaron jumped into the pool!! The good thing was he just ran across the yard and jumped into a hot shower and put dry clothes on!

Team doing the "duckwalk" across the street. Notice the heavy fog!!

Elvis impersonator

Team on a fence

Team in a tree house

Team in a jacuzzi

Team in pillow fight

Teammate "thrown" into a bush

After we finished all that our house, we headed into town to get some more pictures at my friend, Stephanie's house.

Doing the "YMCA" in front of the YMCA

Eggs and bacon smiley face!

Team playing dead with pennies over their eyes.

A 10 person, 4 level human pyramid.

A "bright" idea

Teammate duct taped to the wall

An ice cube igloo

Drinking from a coffee pot.

We took more pictures....those are just a few of the best ones. After our 2 hour time limit was up, we all went back to the church to hang out for the rest of the night. We all put our pictures from our cameras and made a slide show with ALL the pictures. The kids played man hunt, watched movies, ate, hung out and just had a lot of fun until 8am in the morning!!

Hanging out in the gym.....

and in the hall........

and up in the "loft" . The loft is the upstair in the youth building that is all set up with for the youth to just have a hang out spot.

Playing Guitar Hero 4

Just hanging out around 5am.

It was a lot of fun but by 8am, I think everyone was ready to go home and go to sleep!!! Oh I almost forgot!!! OUR TEAM WON THE SCAVENGER HUNT!!! We ended up with 412 points!!!

TSN!! Youth Group from church

After returning home Saturday, it was time to prepare for TSN (Third Sunday Night). The middle school youth group from church gets together every third Sunday night. This month was at our house. Crazy?? Yes!! but lots of fun! Randy's band came and set up in the living room and played for us. They played games, ate snacks, acted like teenagers and just had tons of fun!!
Playing a tennis ball game out in the back yard.



The band....





More games outside...






Kristen got to join in on the fun. She can't wait to be officially in youth next year.

Food!!


Another game....each team picked a person to put a stocking over their head.....then be covered with duct tape. They had to roll in the grass and see which one could pick up the most plastic spoons with their duct taped heads!!





Kimberly and Ian...







I think he won for the most grass stuck on his head!

Just hanging out....

Ping Pong





And finally!! We are all caught up again!!