Christmas Eve party

This year being that it was our first year away from family for Christmas we decided to have our own Christmas Eve party. Kellie, Cori and I got together for our official "planning" meeting. We planned dinner, invite lists and all of the festivities for the party. For dinner I made an awesome marinated shredded ham, then we had cheesy potatoes, rolls, lots of munchies, fruit salads and had lots of desserts too. It was seriously so fun. We started the night off with dinner



and then went into the the first festivity for the night. The famous Ugly Sweater Contest.


And of course the winner is....... Jason! Complete with lights and all



What is a Christmas party with out Santa Clause????
And don't forget his elf.
You can't have Santa without a screaming child. To bad this screaming child happens to be Santa and his helper elf that came along. Doesn't Santa know that Business and pleasure doesn't mix???
Kennidee telling Santa what she wants for Christmas

Kennidee's reaction to her broken candy cane. A broken candy cane tells Santa you have been bad that year. Kennidee was a bit concerned.

Kyson was not so sure about Santa. He just wanted to take his present and go.

While the kids played Bingo the adults enjoyed a traditional white elephant exchange. It was so fun. There were some great gifts going around. The pictures tell it all on this.











We seriously had such a fun time with all of our friends this year. We were so sad to miss our family Christmas Eve party. This was seriously the only thing that got me through Christmas Eve this year. It was such a blast and I am so grateful to all the great friends I have made so far.
After the party the kids said goodbye to Buddy the Elf for the year



and within 20 minutes there was not a creature stirring in our house not even a mouse.