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Soda-lighted to meet you!

For our Relief Society Activity, we decided to have a get to know you night. We have had a ton of new families move into our congregation, so we thought it'd be great to have an opportunity for everyone to get to know each other better. I found a cute idea on pinterest to do a "soda" theme kinda 50's feel, and I loved it. My sis did an amazing job on the invite.
This print inspired it all.
I framed this for the table.
We kept the table pretty simple with a few desserts and décor items.
We had sodas with vanilla ice cream.
This ice cream sprinkle table cloth from Target was perfect.
I wished I'd gotten pics of the games we played. They were fun! We did one in a circle with a bouncy ball that had questions written all over it. When you caught the ball, you answered the question closest to your right thumb. 
Then, we played the shoe game. Everyone put one shoe in a pile in the middle of the room with the lights turned down low and then everyone chose a shoe and had to find the person whose shoe it was and talk to them for a few minutes. 
Then we played this or that.. and a fun "In Order" game were we had teams and each team had to put themselves in the right order of different things.. like by birth month, shoe size, hair length, number of siblings, etc. The ladies were so competitive and fun for that game. We all laughed so hard. 
Then we all ate and chatted at the end. It was a great fun night!

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