February Club

February Club, aka Love Club, was such a blast! I mean, doesn't it just look like lots of fun?!?!

Everything was decorated for Valentine's Day-- and there were even bags of treats for the Mommas to take home!

And a chocolate fountain!!! YUM!!!!

And lessons on baby massages!! :) So much fun!

Of course, we headed to the resource room for some songs and club talk. 

It was neat to hear from everyone about the ways they each feel the most loved. 

And then Robyn shared about the love that Jesus has for each and every one of us. A love that surpasses all of the other love we will receive in our life! 

January Club

January Club is awesome—it’s Extreme Teen Makeover Club!! The schedule is a little different, starting a little earlier and going a bit later. Club talk was first and then came the activities. And the girls got a huge surprise afterwards!

There aren’t pictures of the club talk this month, but they are all generally the same. Gathering around on the couches, singing a few songs, and listening to a few, but meaningful words!

The auditorium was transformed and became a full-out pampering, make-over area! There were hairstylist to cut and style.

Make-up station!

Manicures!

And pedicures, of course!

Yes, oh yes, massages!

While the mommies were getting all sorts of pampered, babies were getting loved and doted on too! It’s a tough job, but somebody’s gotta do it!

Mary-Kay goodie bags were available for each mom {provided by Sharon Tippet}

And “closet” full of cute clothes for the girls to pick out some items to take home!

Even Alyiah and Kinley enjoyed some pampering and got their little fingernails painted!

And if all that wasn’t enough fun for the evening, the girls and volunteers were treated to a wonderful dinner at Perazelli’s! This was made possible by individual donations AND part of the cost was donated by Perazelli’s themselves, so be sure to go support this business! It was absolutely delicious, you won’t be disappointed!

We got to sit in our own little party room and we filled it out!

What a wonderful evening! Thanks so much for all of the volunteers that worked to pull this off! And thank you child-care workers that provided an evening out for these moms!

As fun as it is to get made over and dolled up, it is so important to remember that you are beautiful just the way God made you. He knew you before you were born and he intricately put you together in a way to make you exactly who he wanted you to be!

November Club

Our November club was a super fun Thankgiving celebration! 

We started out the evening by decorating handprint-shaped cookies into turkeys!

 These guys made a yummy icing sandwich!

Melissa {mentor} and her sugar-turkey

Baby Lyllian getting to try some of that delicious icing!!

Next, we all traveled over to what I like to refer to as the cozy room! It's a good place for club talk-- instead of the noisy gym area.

Debbie came up with just a neat idea for club this month! She made really cute mason jars for each of the girls to select. Then, there were tons of pretty scrap paper strips for the girls to write encouraging words to fellow YoungLives-ers. Of course, the mentors and other volunteers had fun writing too!

And when it was all said and done, each girl had a pretty jar full of nice things other people had written about them! And the paper inside is super pretty too. A great resource for when you need a pick-me-up!

Of course, YoungLives Club just isn't complete without a meal. And this meal was ah.ma.zing! It was an all-out Thanksgiving feast!!!

Can you see all of those dessert plates?! Yum!!

The tables were even decorated. It was so cute! 

Everyone enjoyed sitting around and visiting!

Mentor Carol got to enjoy some time with cute, little Aiden.

Daddy Isiah was able to come to club and give Alyiah a ride on his shoulders.

And who doesn't love them some baby snuggles!? 

We had some new faces at club this month too! We will introduce them soon! Our Christmas Club is coming up in just a few weeks and it is going to be great!! So excited. 

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October club

October club was so much fun! We had a several new faces-- both babies and teens! 

The kids came dressed in their costumes!

Lion Aiden with Daddy Justin

We all played a get to know you game where we had a race to find new and unknown facts about each other! And since I played, I totally forgot to take pictures. But it would have looked like a bunch of people with paper and pens talking to each other if you care to picture it in your mind.

Next, some volunteers participated in a fun, messy game. Using popular halloween candy and snacks, using frosting as glue, they raced to complete the word "Baby". Each group had different strategies and it was fun to see what the final result was!

Amy and Brandi 

Jaelie and Taylor

Kayla and Justin

Here are the results:

And just when we thought the game was over... it continued on. One partner had to hold the glass and the other was racing to clean off the glass by eating all of the candy!

{Amy, please don't hate me for this picture, k?}

Things started to wind down when we went to the comfy couch room and sang a few songs while Tanya played guitar.

Debbie shared a touching message about how certain events and situations in our lives cause us to put on different masks in order to try to please the people around us. She even brought a picture of her daughter with different masks as a visual. It all came down to saying that our God, our Creator, loves the real us. He creates us exactly the way he wanted us and he doesn't expect and he doesn't want us to pretend to be what we are not. I wish I would have just video-taped her speaking because I can't even do it justice. Want to do it again Debbie!?

Before the meal, the moms enjoyed some "shopping" and they all picked out a few items to take home! Who doesn't love shopping?!

And YoungLives club isn't complete without a meal... and it was delicious-- BBQ and french fries. Yum!!

We had a great time! For more information about our club-- to join, to volunteer, or even just to ask a question, just leave a comment and we'll get back to you!