Junior High Girls

This past Friday night, Brian and I both had a chance to enjoy the junior high from our church -- Brian had the boys at our house for a sleepover, and I was with the girls at another house for a sleepover. The guys had good manly-bonding time (as Brian's post explains below). And, the girls had a great time -- but, surprisingly not girly. The sleepover began with a fierce competition -- the Rolling Cows vs. Bouncing Purdles . . . don't ask how they came up with these names. We started off with a DDR (Dance-Dance-Revolution) competition -- most of us not being too experienced at such "dancing."

Then, we did a relay race -- with the batton being a full 2-liter Coke bottle -- around the entire neighborhood . . . at 10:30pm! I must say I did a full-out sprint in order to catch our team up, and we won! (I have shin-splints as a result now :). I'm not competitive or anything :)! We then did a trampoline contest, seeing who could continue jumping the longest without getting hit by the balls in the net.


A fondue dessert was a nice treat at the end, and then a talk about modesty and discretion -- not just outwardly, but inwardly. The girls were really taking hold of it. And, we talked a bit about dating/relationships, even though, oddly enough (but thankfully) none are really into boys yet. Then, we played Cranium . . . and we're getting late here . . . started at 1am! And, I must admit that our team won -- I love Cranium, especially the word worm things.


I crashed after that, but of course the girls watched a movie even after that. We enjoyed homemade waffles the next morning -- a secret recipe of a family in our church.
Then, Saturday night, it was ladies night at our house -- with some college friends coming over for dinner. Rachel Watanabe (lovingly termed, Rachie-Racherton) was in town -- visiting the area as she anticipates going to Westminster in the fall. It was so great to see her, and Amy Claire and Monica. Fun times.

We had SUCH gorgeous weather this weekened, I tried to soak it all up! It finally felt like Spring -- sunny and in the 70s/80s. Hopefully, it will stick around for awhile :).