It all began with a toothpick...

Perhaps yesterday was the most jam packed crazy Saturday on record. After church we (should I clarify? refers to Ryan and I in case you didn't know) went to Kari Shultz house for lunch and enjoyed an amazing Sabbath meal with cottage cheese loaf, a potato casserole, homemade bread, veggies, and german chocolate cake. Then we went over the Kelli's house to meet up with a big group of friends.

The Saturday night fun started with a game called "Bigger or Better", a version of a scavenger hunt, where you drive around and knock on doors trying to trade people for something bigger or better than what you have, starting with a toothpick. We played guys against girls. The girls game went like this: toothpick, apple, orange, blazer made in Mexico, computer keyboard, outside decor speaker that looks like a rock, and finally a toaster oven (that worked but was headed for the Samaritan Center) from Paul and Lynda Smith's house, for those of you that know them. Thinking the boys couldn't possibly get something better than a toaster oven just asking people for things, we went back to the house in triumph. 10 minutes late, the guys came back in blowing horns and yelling with a van somebody had let them borrow. But alas, amidst screams of "it has to be something you don't have to take back!" they showed us the real booty: a couch, loveseat, and a computer monitor in the back. Can you believe it? Somebody gave them all that stuff and somebody let them borrow a van to haul it back to school just by knocking on a door and asking to trade... Maybe we should all try this game more often.

While they unloaded and took the van back, the girls went to Taco Bell for a quick meal. Then the boys insisted we take them to Baskin Robbins all the way on East Brainerd as their reward. By the time we got back to Kelli's, her keys had been locked inside in the chaos. So we all packed into 4 cars and headed to my place to play games. Uno Attack makes a great game for a big group of people, we played with 13! And the night ended with two circles playing Thump Thump. Strange how this all started with a little piece of wood...

As Ryan said, "I've never seen so many shoes in this house."

The group