It's Party Time

Aaron survived finals, and we finally got ourselves packed, the car loaded and on our way to Hooper to spend the week with my family. Traffic was terrible, so pretty much we only had time to drop the boys off at my mom's house and head to Tindy and Tami's Christmas party. Tindy and Tami are two of my very good friends from high school. I haven't seen either of them in forever. They teamed up this year and decided to throw a friends Christmas party. It was a hit. I hope they do it every year.

First we had a potatoe bar dinner. Then we did white elephant gifts. The gift I chose to give was a beta fish and some fish food. Aaron gave a box of donuts. Then we played Christmas Pictionary. The girls dominated. That's ok though because the boys clobbered us in the next game. Everyone got a paper sack with some sort of food item in it (some of the examples: laffy taffy, dumb dumb suckers, fireballs, lemon heads, pixie stix, caramel, etc.) and we lined up in a line, and the first person in line had to eat and swallow everything in their bag before the next person could open their bag. It was a race to the end of the line. Like I said the boys dominated, and most of the girls wanted to puke by the end. :) But it was still fun. The picture is of Aaron eating a candy necklace for his turn.

The last activity of the night, I thought was the most fun. We got in teams, each couple was a team, and had a ginger bread house building contest. Tindy and Tami had LOTS of candy and frosting for us to use, and I thought every one did a really good job of being creative. All the houses came out really different. We voted for our favorites. Aaron and I ended up winning, but I'm not sure we really deserved to, there were a lot of cool houses. But we got a sweet prize basket with a movie and some candy and a soda, so I'm not going to complain ;)

After the party we stayed and helped clean up, and had a blast talking and catching up with everyone. Thanks Tindy and Tami for a wonderful Christmas party!!

Here's another look at our house....listen to the awesome noise it makes when it gets squished, just like in a movie.