Surprise Date Night

 The guys from our small group planned a surprise date night for all of us girls.  All they really told us is that we had to dress up, and that we were meeting at 3 PM.  They took care of all the other details.

So we each got all fancy, and when we were ready to go, another guy from the church drove us around in a bus with the windows covered so we couldn't see where we were going.

 Rebecca and Liz (sisters)

Julia and Kendra

 Brandi, Jenica, and Ashley (sister-in-laws - Jenica and Ashley married Brandi's two brothers)

 Jessi and Tara

Cherri, me, and Dawn

 Me and Stephen

When we arrived, we realized we were at the church, and when we walked in,  we noticed that all the chairs were cleared out and candles were lit.  The guys had dance instructors come in to teach us all dancing for two hours!!!  We learned swing and salsa.  Other than Stephen's knee absolutely killing him in the salsa, we had a ton of fun.  I don't have too many pictures of the dancing - kind of hard to take pictures when you are dancing yourself ;)

 Stephen and Brian

 Brian and Jenica doing a little swing dancing

 Chad and Dawn doing a little salsa dancing

Afterwards, we were brought into the church fellowship hall, where we had an AMAZING dinner that Stephen and Brent picked out, and then paid some helpers from the church to make it and serve us.  They seriously went all out - sparkling juices, shrimp as an appetizer (it was so good and I am not even a huge fan of shrimp normally), 4 types of bread, two choices of meat, two types of salad, we could choose 3 different sides, plus dessert.  SO GOOD.  I was so impressed.  They even used china, and nice goblets and everything.  And, the guys picked out napkins to match the elegant menus they made for us, plus did all the decorating!!!  I was completely blown away.  Stephen said he wanted to go for a super fancy meal, and they sure accomplished that!!!

 Yes, I know...this is a huge group to call our "small group".  And we were even missing two couples!!  If you think this is big, you should see us all when we get together with our kids ;)  We have so much fun together, and it doesn't seem that big because we all feel so comfortable with each other.

 Kevin and Kendra

I loved my hair.  This is a little messy because of all night dancing, but you get the idea.  A lady in our church did it.  It was fun to get my hair done - a very rare treat!!