4th Annual Christmas Partay!

For 3 years we had an annual Christmas party. But then I went back to school, and we didn't have the party since I had finals that week. Then the next year we had a newborn (Morgan), so we decided not to have it that year either. But this year, we brought it back!

We ended up deciding only 3 days before to have it because we had 6 people ask us if we were having it. So, we decided what the heck and sent out an evite! We weren't expecting many people to be able to attend since it was such a last minute thing. But to our pleasant surprise, we had a pretty good turn out!

I cooked and baked my little heart out to make a good array of food for our guests.

I must say, I was quite impressed with myself and the cake balls and pretzels that I made! I'm pretty proud of them. :-)

We also had some champagne punch and other coctails available.

We love our friends! We had such a great time with them!

After a while of mingling, it was time to start the traditional Dirty Santa gift exchange! So, we all found a place close enough to scope out the gifts.

Scott  was #1 and started us off.

The first few of us chose gifts from under the tree.

But once I opened my chosen gift, the stealing began!

It was unexpected and pretty awesome!! It definitely was fought over and the first gift to be frozen! ;-)

The 'dirty' in Dirty Santa was shining through everyone's ruthless gift snatching!... which, of course, makes it so much fun!

I had at least 4 gifts stolen from me, but ended up with a great gift that goes perfectly with my house! :)

And, last but not least... Sam opened the last gift. Which was actually one of our's. It was Anchorman on Blu-ray and a random bottle of panther cologne that we found, that I labeled "Sex Panther", per quoted from the movie.... We were laughing all day about our gift and were so excited about it!

They've done studies you know. 60% of the time, it works every time!... HA HA!

Our house ended up smelling like Sex Panther from it getting sprayed! And just so you know, Sam, we found it and there will be pay backs!

It was a really great night! We have so much fun with our friends, so we didn't expect anything less!

Christian and I love hosting parties and catering to people. We are so glad that you all were able to come on such short notice! We're already looking forward to the 5th annual next year!