Party Time!

We've lived in our new area about 6 months now, and have both been thinking we'd like to get to know more people in our ward, so Matt said 'Let's have a party'. Our good friend Lonna let us know that if we wanted to have a party, we needed to have a theme. So off went Matt to google 'adult party themes', and after sifting through all the inappropriate ones he came up with a 'blank canvas' party. The idea is to have several different canvases, each with a theme (finger painting, impressionism, abstract, etc) and have people fill in a little bit on each painting.

We invited just about everyone in our age group, hoping for at least half to show up. We ended up having a great showing, with about 30 people working on the paintings! I was way impressed with how the paintings turned out, especially since Matt and I lack art skills of any kind. We played some games to award the winners with their choice of canvas (or caramel apple). It was a really good time and everyone seemed to enjoy themselves. I really wish I had taken more pictures, but I was a little distracted with painting myself :) The Walburger's took some extra pictures and posted on their blog. So for all you party throwers out there, I highly suggest this idea for a unique and fun party!