02/14/2009 - Valentine's Day

This Valentine's Day, our church decided to put together a little party for the couples. We had expected 10 couples to come, however one of the elderly men in our church twisted his ankle the day before so they were unable to come sadly.





The guys all showed up at about 4pm to begin decorating and making the place look romantic. We asked YWAM if we could use their meeting room and they were gracious to extend their hospitality.





We began with "appetizers" which was a series of 3 questions to ask one another to help us get into talking with one another. The questions were all about how we feel loved and respected - something like you'd find in the "5 Love Languages" book (which if you are married and haven't read, I highly encourage you to!

Afterward, the guys served their wives some of the delicious food.





As the night went on, we had different things we did. One was a test to see how well we knew each other where we all answered the same questions seperately and shared how our answers matched (or didn't match) Perhaps the highlight of this part of the evening was when the Kapitonov's shared their answers about what Natalia could do to make Slava the happiest man in the world. Slava is quite the extremist when it comes to sports and so Natalia answered to go snow-boarding with him. Slava was disappointed and exclaimed, "I wanted to you go parachuting!"

Eventually it became late and the volunteers watching the children had only so much hair they could pull out so we began to clean up. During our meal, we had some champagne looking bottles of strawberry stuff and so we decided to have a bit o' fun.







Overall, we had a great evening hanging out with each other (ourselves and our friends).