XBOX for Young Mens

Bret and McKinley watching the boys play xbox

Last night Bret got a phone call from one of his counselors in Young Mens (Bret is Young Mens President) asking him what they had planned on doing for YM's that night since the church building was being used for a wedding reception. Matt, the counselor, suggested just to cancel young mens and just do the planned activity for the following week. Bret of course did not like that idea, and called his other counselor to see if he had any suggestions. You guessed it, he suggested x-box. So, before I knew it we had 8 boys, 3 counselors, doughnuts, soda pop and lots of candy in our house that once was peace. Because we only have one main room, I really didnt have any where to take McKinley, so we stayed and watch the boys play Halo.

some of the boys playing

Before you knew it McKinley was in on all the action that was going on. She army crawled her way to an open controller and thought that she was SO big because she was 'playing' too. It was very cute and I thought that I would share a few pictures.

McKinley playing xbox with the 'big kids'

McKinley again, with the xbox controller

Two hours later, the boys all went home and our house was back to its normal peace and quiet. Although, as soon as they saw it was time to leave the all grabbed handfuls of candy, stuffed a doughnut in their faces and snatched a soda to go, leaving a trail of wrappers and crumbs from the kitchen to the front door. I am not sure if any of the boys got spiritual upliftment (is that a word?) but I do know that they had fun.
It was nice to have some extra excitement at our house. McKinley loved having some other faces to look at other than mine and I was very happy to have her content just being on the floor.