Gross Game Night

On Monday night we had a Gross Game Night at Chaos that would have made Ingrid angry. We started with a game that about made me ralph. We blended up a whole collection of food - brussel sprouts, goldfish crackers, baby-food, Spam and lots of other nasty stuff. The smell was enough to make me gag, but we had three kids drink this stuff like it was pop.

We then had a turkey decorating contest followed by raw chicken-bowling (yes, the kids wore rubber gloves) and then bubble-gum sculptures. I'm not sure what we've taught the kids about Jesus this year that would challenge their soul to the point that they would make a cross with a heart on it out of chewed gum, but I'm guessing that means we're doing something really, really right. Right?

The bologna slowflakes went well, but the shaving cream balloon shave didn't go off as planned.

The idea is that the kids shave the shaving-cream covered balloons with dinged razors, the ballons explode and cover the kids with shaving cream. It works great if you remember to blow the balloons up enough. Otherwise, the kids end up in a giant shaving cream battle. Between Jason, Jess and I - and all the years between us, none of us really saw this coming.

It was a fun night with a big group. We've done something new this year in adding some fifth graders into the mix. Mostly, this started because Nate is in fifth grade and he's at a point where he's ready for it, and he's been in the kids program at our church to the point that it's gotten old for him. We've added some of the other fifth graders who were in the same boat, and they fit in well. We've now got a pretty noticeable difference in maturity levels between our fifth - seventh and our eighth (and a few ninth) graders that come.

You can see the rest of the pictures here.