Great Dec. Weekend!

The weekend started with Breakfast with Santa at D's school. We got there early and beat the crowd and got right in for pics with Santa for only $2. Can't beat that! At first the boys were scared but then D walked right up to Santa and sat on his lap. I had to carry B up there but once he got there they both started right away telling Santa what toys they wanted! I think the pic will come home today with D from school. I'll be sure to post it when I get it. Santa looked great!!

After breakfast D went shoppin in Santa's store. He gots gifts for B, Papa, and Aunt Jen. He had already bought for mommy, daddy and granny. He was very picky about what he chose! What a good shopper!!

The cookie party was FANTASTIC!!! It was so much fun that I can't even describe and I will definetly be having it again next year!! I made several appetizers and had drinks for everyone. People started arriving and picked their Christmas name tag to wear. SOme of the names were Reindeer names and others were like snowball, holly, cookie, ms. Claus. The names would be used later for the games. After everyone mingled for awhile we did some voting on guessing the number of m-n-m's in the jar, and best cookie display. We then put on a fashion show with a catwalk style runway so that we could model our PJ's to try to win best Christmas PJ's title! The runway was hysterical!! I only took pics but now wish I would of video'd the walk. Everyone was so creative with their walks and it was sooooo much fun! Each person added a pose at the end and it was great!!

Next we started with some games. I had everyone divide into three teams. It was already decided what team they were on by a small number on their name tag. The idea of the game was to blow up balloons and stuff them into the legs of panthose to create Reindeer antlers. Once your team was done the captain of each team had to put the pantyhose on their head to win. Everyone had a great time and played right along!! This game was so, so, so much fun!! Each team member won a candy cane with a scratch off ticket attached.

Next was the "plunger relay". You may have seen this on you tube. I changed the plungers to candy canes. The big ones with life savers gummies inside. The guests split into two teams. One team made up of people with a reindeer name and the other team not reindeer. Each person had to walk from one end of the room with candy cane between their legs and not touch it with their hands. There was a person at the other end with a roll of toilet paper between their legs and you had to stick the candy cane in the toilet paper! It was absolutely hysterical. I only video'd this event so I'll have to get it from my video camera and try to post it one day! I can't begin to describe how funny it was.

We also did a sock swap and played the left/right passing game. Everyone got to take home a new pair of Christmas socks.

Everyone then boxed up cookies of all kinds and took them home with them to eat and enjoy at home. I'm not sure if I'm leaving anything out at the moment but it was a blast!! People are already planning what cookies they want to bring next year and trying to think of new ideas for the party!!

This crescent rolls veggie appetizer dish was very easy too!

The olive penguins were a hit!! Very easy to make too! Just get a can of jumbo olives, a can of small olives, onion and chive cream cheese, frilly top toothpicks and carrots. Just slice the large olives down one side. Put the cream cheese in ziploc bag and pipe into body. Then use toothpick to attach the small olive for head and a slice of carrot for the feet. You can also cut a small triangle piece of carrot for the beak! Too easy and very cute, and edible too of course!!

I made a corn dip, spinach dip, cheese and meat tray, quiches and sandwich spirals from Sam's. A friend also brought a cheese ball. For drinks I served a pina colada punch, hot chocolate and bottled water and sodas. For desserts ( the cookies were to take home and not eat at the party) I made pretzel treats, a cupcake tree and rum bars. They were supposed to be rum balls but wouldn't stick together for some reason. So I decided to just press them in a pan. They tasted great anyway!!

The party was almost over and mom came out with a cake to suprise me and had everyone at the party sing Happy Birthday to me! It was very sweet! She could of left the numbers off the cake though..........:o)

The boys were intrigued by the Reindeer antlers when they got home and wanted to try them on. So adorable!

To see alot more pics from the party you can go HERE!

I also had a wonderful birthday and I got alot of great gifts!! I'll post more about my birthday later, but I do want to say a huge THANK YOU to my wonderful husband and most precious wonderful boys in the whole world!!

Our weekend

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