Christmas Party December 18th

I’m writing about our Christmas Party almost 2 weeks after the fact but I think I can recall the details pretty well since it was a truly special time for us so here goes…

I wore myself out that morning trying to get everything done before 5 pm. When I say worn out I mean aching back, legs, and especially the feet! I had woken up early to get started on all the sweeping, scrubbing, decorating, vacuuming, and setting up Christmas lights. By the time it was 5 o’ clock every little detail was perfect in my mind and I was done being stressed knowing that I did my best. I put my whole heart into it and wrapped each guest’s present myself with a loving touch and placed them under the tree.

As people started showing up the snowing began, it had me a little worried but apparently that worry was for nothing because everyone showed up and we had a blast. Since Chad accidentally scheduled his webinar on the night of our party Bob and Rob went upstairs to listen in. Those nerds loved it and went on and on about it. That cracked me up.

I busted out the Pictionary Man to keep everyone occupied while Chad was hosting his webinar. It was a real hit, lots of laughs and giggles could be heard from anywhere in the house. I’m sure it was heard from where Chad was at but that really couldn’t be helped with that many people.

Shortly after Chad’s webinar ended our last guests Matt and Caitlin showed up. We then fired up the outside grill for hotdogs and burgers. Chad was a real help taking food orders from everyone and taking care of most of the main coarse. Everyone seemed to enjoy all the food and appetizers.

As everyone was enjoying their food I realized I just couldn’t wait any longer! I then rudely interrupted our guests and had them pick a party popper. I took pictures of each person as they were pulling and tugging to preserve as many special moments as I could. Decks of cards, magnifying glasses, yo yo’s, and mirrors were in each of the poppers. Some of the guests (the males) happened to get the compact mirrors and happily exchanged them with the females lol. Chad got 3 compact mirrors in a row which had me laughing uncontrollably.

I let everyone finish up with their food before busting out the big surprise with Chad, the “Naughty Bag”. Everyone was all laughs as Chad brought in a big red bag stuffed with all their presents and on it in big letters said “smile if you’ve been naughty”. Everyone with phones or cameras asked me to hold it up while they got a picture of me smiling with it.

I handed out each of the gifts while Amber took pictures of everyone’s smiling face. Before the night was over many guests asked to see the infamous Tuke and/or Puff before leaving. Sometimes I feel real lucky to have such a manimal in my life, emphasize on “sometimes”! The last ones to leave were Matt and Caitlin, real night owls if you ask me lol. Bob and Matt stayed over for some serious fun the follow morning. And that concludes our Christmas Party for 2009 one of my most special memories for the year.

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