Party weekend

Friday we went to a Christmas party that a couple from our ward threw. It was a lot of un and the white elephant exchange was pretty entertaining. Our pretty cool stuff was stolen during the game and we ended up with a denim work shirt, for a school bus driver, and a tin of chocolates. One of the finniest/gross gifts given was some dentures, but a few board game were the desired prize and were stolen the max amount of times before they found their owner. It was just a grown-up party and Ryan's parents were nice enough to keep Haylie, who ended up staying the night so we wouldn't have to wake her...

Saturday was our ward Christmas dinner. I signed up to make green bean casserole. I thought I had this GREAT idea of making my own french friend onions instead of buying them since I think they are expensive. Well long story short, it wasn't a whole lot cheaper, they weren't quite the smae and it was WAY time consuming and WAY messy and my house smelled like fried unions for the rest of the weekend. Luckily they tasted fine in the casserole, but I sliced under my thumb nail on a can lid after emptying the green beans, and after the whole process that day Slap a band-aid on and get over it right.

They did a craft for the older kids and had Santa visit. Haylie did not like Santa.

Not quite so sure

Nope. Definitely no likey Santa.

Actually Haylie doesn't seem to like many of the Chriatmas knick nacks and decorations. She won't walk in my mom's living room alone because of the minature standing Santa, she cried when the stuffed raindeer snag to her and clung to my mom for dear life when my dad put antlers and a Rudolf nose on. She is even leery around my dads child hood train set he has set up around the Christmas tree.

Anyway, after we inflicted the Santa trauma on Haylie we had dinner, the primary sand and we watched a video. Not very exciting but it was a nice social event with really good food.