christmas party craziness: part two

ready to party.

Because a few of our friends thought quickly, we were able to throw together a fun little party with some of our friends before a few headed off for the holidays.  It was super low-key (theme of my life) and contained all the elements that make for a good time in my opinion; fun people, delicious food and good conversation.

Some of our friends have a sweet little guy a few months younger than Lee, they don't really play "together" as much as "near each other" yet, but they're sure to become great friends.

Cute little Ry-Guy.

Lee was super social the whole time...

A few of our friends suggested we make gingerbread houses. It was really fun...not all of us were as skilled (or dedicated) as others...but it was delightful.

can you tell this was the engineer collaboration?

We had such a fun time, it was such a great way to start the month off.

christmas party craziness: part one.

Christmas time is so fun and so insane.  I didn't know how it would be for us this year, staying home and being so far away from family, but we had so much fun with so many friends this holiday season.

One Saturday in early December we had back to back Christmas parties. The kids did better than i expected they would.
First we had a brunch with our church congregation.  I love breakfast so I quite enjoyed myself. Our good friends in the ward are professional (in all seriousness) french horn players and they played a few songs, it was delightful, even if the gym we met in didn't do them justice at all. Lee rocked out the whole time they played.

groovin'.

We headed straight over to Kevin's work for a Christmas party for families.  They had men on stilts, jugglers, face-painting, balloon tying, a breakfast bar (too bad I was already full...) and several Christmas-themed activity stations. Lee would only get a balloon animal.  He cried when we tried to get a Rudolf nose painted on his little nose. His favorite part of the event by far was the fact that the windows overlooked a lake. He cried, "wa-wa! wa-wa!" enthusiastically over and over.

"wa-wa"

yep. we were both done. :)

 We didn't stay too long because the boys (and their parents) were partied out, but we had a great time.