Christmas Parties!

The same day as my Christmas Cookie Exchange was the evening of our Ward Christmas Party. I was supposed to bring a vegetable and had bought all the ingredients to make this vegetable diavan recipe from pinterest. however, I never got time to make it. After the cookie party, Omar took his cousin Carin out shopping while I worked on getting a bunch of primary stuff done for the next day at church. When they got back about 2 hours later we went to go get pedicures and when that was done it left an hour before the party. So we went over to Publix and I bought their Greek Salad to bring with me.

The party was nice, there was food, each table had a gingerbread house to decorate, and then there was a nice Christmas program with different performers from the ward. I was worried that it was going to be a really long program with how many people were performing, but it went really quickly and we the party ended even early.

Lise Long singing "Chestnuts Roasting"

Carin helping Charles Schrieber with our gingerbread house

After the Ward party we went over to our neighbor Tracy & Gina's house for their party. There was tons of food, but we weren't hungry. There was also quite a few of our neighbors there as well as the 2 ladies that work at the model home selling the houses. One of them, Sydney, eats like nothing but candy and cookies (seriously) and she has so much energy and so crazy! Well you can see she got Omar to have a good time too...

We also decided to try to invite some couples from church for a Mexican Christmas Party earlier this week. This was just a bad party planning year because we invited like 10 different couples and only 2 others were going to be able to make it. So our big party idea didn't work out for what we were going to do, so we were just going to eat and  play some Settlers. However, the day of the party I came down with terrible cold and didn't want to get anyone else sick so we had to completely scrap our whole party. That was pretty sad. I guess it was just no meant to be.