MM ~ New Year's Eve 2008

 Ooooh, the hilarity!  =)

Today's Memory Monday is my 2008 New Year's Eve party for the new Diving Deeper LifeGroup... I invited my new friend, Laura, and I quietly asked Bobbi to put her in my group for the scavenger hunt we had planned so that she'd feel more comfortable. She replied with a smile, "I'll take care of it!" .......Then she put Laura in her group and stuck me with the random new kids (who were clearly long-time best friends with lots of personality happening between them)!  I was a little shocked and a lot irritated, but trying to be nice. To make it worse, the scavenger hunt was a game of speed - not my strong suit - and I had to drive (because I certainly didn't trust either of them with my car, which is also super ironic now). 

Thus, my first major introduction to Chettles and Sarah Elizabeth. LOL (They'd come to a LG Christmas party the week before, but it was huge, and I hadn't had a chance to talk to them much then.)

We had to get a pic with a nativity scene (my house to the rescue), someone standing on a fire hydrant, "holding a puppy," hugging one of the Tulsa penguin statues (all above), shaking hands with a Starbucks employee, sitting in the drivers' seat of someone you just met (yay, Starbucks guy!)...

The group holding bowling balls, "playing an instrument," snow angels in front of the Praying Hands, at the Center of the Universe (we got creative and used the Bible - just daring someone to say God's not the center of the universe - lol), licking a pole?? (pretty sure he put his gum on it and that's what his tongue is touching - lol), and a picture with a really tall man (or squatting down next to a perfectly average-height man). lol 

"Climbing" a tree, group singing a Christmas carol to someone we just met (again, yay for Starbucks - and I love that picture!!), and standing on a stage (Riverwalk Crossing). The other pics are obviously later that night with Laura and Liz!

I was happier by the time we got our Charlie's Angels co-leader pic! lol  Then there's a pic of the newly engaged Mark and Natalie (Markalie, as I called them). Laura, Paul, and K-Lamb (her last name at the time)... then Cassie and K-Lamb!

Pretty much everything I remember about this night makes me laugh now!! =)  The irony of Chet and Sarah becoming two of my favorite people and closest friends. The awesomeness of still having close friendships with five of these people ten years later!  K-Lamb looking fierce in our co-leader pic, Sarah in her long denim skirt and no makeup (before she broke away from the Pentecostal church), Chet Lee in that hat looking so very young, me understanding their relationship dynamic almost immediately, ALL the Scavenger Hunt memories -- including them telling me stop and put my flashers on in the middle of the street so they could get out and take a couple of the pics we needed (which I reluctantly did, then took some deep breaths to calm down - LOL), K-Lamb saying "This is MASS CHAOS" whilst watching Kyle act out a clue in a game called Partini, etc. =)

God knew what He was doing, as per usual. And it probably made Him laugh, too, as He always knows the big picture way before we do!  

Anyway, that's all for today's Memory Monday!!  I'm gonna try to start these back up again. ❤