Holiday Party

Well, we had our holiday party the Saturday after Christmas and before New Years.

This year was the start of a family tradition to have a holiday party each year and have everyone make a dish so that one or two people are not carrying the party. This year the party was at our house, next year it will be at my sisters house, and we aren't sure who is getting the honors on year three (my darling daughter should be here by then so I'm definitely NOT having the holiday party in year three).

I started to panic, I had a total count of 35 adults and 27 children coming and Michael felt that I didn't have enough food even though everyone was bringing something. We did have way to many deserts and more entrees would have been better, but after going out and buying more food that we really didn't need, the party want off fine and the kids took home a TON of food.

There really was no need to panic because as with every party, some people do not show up and we had twelve adults and six children not come. One day I will learn not to go by the total number of people that say "Yes, I'm coming" and knock off a minimum of ten off the head count.

We had a White Elephant Swap this year and it was a lot of fun. Even though we got out specific details about how the the White Elephant swap worked a lot of people brought new gifts and I think that they were a little bit surprised when they got "something slightly used, but still useful", oh well, live and learn, it was still a lot of fun!

2008 is just days away, let's hope for bigger and better referrals in 2008 and bring our babies home.

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!