5th Quarter

I know it seems like a 5th quarter isn't a possiblity, but it there's been one at MHBC for the last several years! Every fall, Hickman plays Rock Bridge in the Providence Bowl, and our youth group celebrates by hosting a "5th Quarter" lock-in after the game. It's a great event, that started as a reward for selling raffle tickets for the Fish Fry one year, and immediately became a required event for every year! It really is fun... or at least it would be if I wasn't an old lady! I'm not so good at staying up all night anymore!

It sure was fun to go to the game, though! Last year, Elena looked like this:

We joked because she was totally covered in green, right down to her stroller! This year, we made sure we showed our Kewpie pride in lots of purple!!

Once we were back at the church, we played some games-- like egg in a tube, which I don't have any pictures of, but which is quite entertaining. Basically, you take a 7 or 8 foot piece of 1 1/4 clear tubing. You crack an egg inside the tube, then two people stand at either end of the tube and blow. Whoever runs out of air first gets egg in the face... or mouth!! It is quite the game, and fun... TO WATCH!

We also played Romans and Christians (a run around in the dark, chase each other kind of game) outside the church, which was really fun. After we wore everyone out, we set up the video games!! We had two projectors, one with our Wii, and one with an XBox and Guitar Hero! James and Missy had to make sure the Wii was working by going a few rounds of boxing! I'm telling you, it's good for the relationship!! :)

By about 4:00 in the morning, this is about what it looked like... people crashed out watching the video games, eating lots of food... it's what a lock-in is all about!!

People did find the most interesting places to sleep...

As I'm transitioning into not having the baby blog, I'm trying to figure out how to get the cute pictures that I take of Elena NOT at any special time on this blog... so I'm just going to post them! For Sunday night youth, I've started staying through the game and music, and then Elena and I go into the old nursery, which is right off of the youth room. She plays quietly, and I can still hear Josh's message. It's worked out really well, and it's a really nice quiet time with no distractions (no tv, no computer, etc.), I can just watch her play. She has really taken to a doll that is in the nursery, and it's so cute to watch her play with it!!


She even likes to feed it with this little bottle...
But taking care of a baby is hard work, sometimes a girl has to get a little snack for herself!!
In other news... Elena has decided that licking the spoon after Mom makes brownies is GREAT!
So that's the update about the 5th quarter lock-in. Check out the Youth Blog for more pictures... including Josh playing the egg-tube game! Stay tuned, I'm going to try to get an update about this past weekend, when we celebrated Uncle Tim's birthday at the Roots, Blues, and BBQ Festival!