Friends forever. Christmas party 2009

Our Annual Friend Christmas party had arrived......
WE look forward to it every year.

It was at my house and preparations were underway.....

(I wore my pink polka dot apron for you Nat!)

We made it simple.

Just fancy appetizers and Christmas desserts.

No games, no white elephants,

We just wanted the evening to talk and talk....time to catch up.

Time to check in with every one's lives....

A time to just hang out, laugh and remember all the

good ole' days!

I was so impressed with our selection of food!

Great job girls.

We all decided Friday night was best for the majority of us...not all was there but

most of us managed to get to the party!

It was a crazy, snowy night and the men were coming from work and us mom's finding sitters for all the kids...thanks everyone for making the E F F O R T!

(there are 21 kids between all of us...!)

Back to the food!

I loved Krista's gourmet salad: spinach, blueberries, strawberries, fresh grated Parmesan! Yummy

Turkey avocado croissants, brie cheese and crackers, salads, homemade chocolate fudge, christmas cookies, veggies....it was delicious!

We just hung out,

chatted,

caught up, reminisced,

retold, rehashed, laughed,

and remembered

W H Y

we are

all F R I E N D S!

The boyz sat around telling high school stories of their

past girlfriends, dances, boys trips,

outings to his cabin up in Heber....

stories and more stories.....we were all laughing!

We had such a great night.

We could of hung out and chatted the night away.

But back to all our kiddos waiting for us!

(speaking of....the cutest baby ever....I loved her all night long!!)

What a night we had!

These boys have been friends since 5 th grade....going on 25 plus years!

So awesome!
We handed out gifts and called it a night!


My stocking gifts full of Fernwood chocolates....yum!

Alright boys.....your friendship means so much!
Cheers to another year,
cheers to all the great memories,
cheers to our future!



and we must NOT forget my brother Brandon, aka "Bear!"

We missed you and Em....we had some good chats of the high school days!

(Feb 2009...last visit from Germany!)

missing a few girls....

We had a great night....thanks everyone for a great time.

Merry Christmas to you all!

This Christmas season has been a whirlwind of parties, parties and more parties. Just had the Brown cousin party today (post to come LATER)...what a hit! This week we have a few more and starting the 12 days of christmas for Fam home evening tomorrow. I need to leave my blog and do my church christmas lesson for Jake's class tomorrow.

Off to another crazy, fabulous Christmas week!