Friend Christmas Party

This year we hosted the friend Christmas party at our place. I'm not gonna lie, I'm not sure when I'll want to host a party at our place again...haha. It was a little stressful. But I think it was a big success. I get so excited when planning parties and come up with so many ideas and don't realize how much work it's going to be. Needless to say, the few hours before the party were pretty hectic! But it came together and I think everyone had fun. 

Jenn was nice enough to bring her camera and take lots of pictures (thanks Jenn!!). Everyone brought yummy treats and we did a hot chocolate bar. I'm not sure everyone liked the hot chocolate much, which was kind of a bummer (because I bought SO many toppings) but I thought it was yummy. It was dark chocolate hot cocoa mix from Starbucks. It was fancy, that's for sure. 

[The props]

[Food and the hot chocolate bar]

[Jane makes the cutest reindeer!]

[Santa Jack!]

[So cute!]

[Obsessed!]

[The white elephant gifts]

[Haha. Hilarious face! She makes this face all the time these days!]

[Opening gifts]

[Elliott getting so good at sitting up!]

So we all ate treats and then we did a white elephant gift exchange. I ended up with a pack of condoms that had a picture of Santa and were called "Santa's pleasure pack." Thanks Perry. And Josh ended up with a game called Cuponk. It's a cup with ping pong balls. Basically you just bounce the balls into the cup...

After the exchange Jake ans Val had to leave so we quickly took pictures. I made a bunch of props on sticks for pictures. I thought they turned out pretty cute. 

[Cutest couple ever]

Then we played games. We did Christmas Minute to Win It. It was a lot of fun. 

The first game we didn't get any pictures of. But you had to dip your nose in Vaseline and then swing a pom-pom up and get it to stick to your nose (Rudolph). Everyone but Nathan was terrible at it. Needless to say, he won.

Then we played Face the Gingerbread Man. You had to start with a gingerbread man on your forehead and had to get it into your mouth without touching it with your hands. Perry rocked that one! 

Then we played Holiday Kiss. You had to kiss a christmas bauble with your spouse and transfer it across the room and hang it on a string. It was super hard. Kelly and Perry won that one too. They were awesome at it. Josh and I were TERRIBLE! 

[Fun picture!]

[Haha! So funny]

The last game was a snowball fight. It was insane. We had tons of wadded up paper and a line across the middle of the room. At the end of one minute the side with the most snowballs on their side lost. It got CRAZY. I should have planned better and made rules about it. I just forgot how crazy boys get. Three things might have gotten broken during that game...(an ornament, one of my willow tree people...and our couch). Yikes. But, nothing too serious. 

The prizes for the games were all Christmas ornaments. Jake and Val took one even though they left before games. They got the hotdog. Then there was a Naughty one with hanging coal, a bird, an owl, a monkey, and cute red boots. 

After games everyone helped us clean (thank you!!) and headed out. It's funny. Now that a lot of us have kids, our parties end so early.  We were cleaned up and everyone was gone before 8pm. Haha! Love it. 

Anyways, it was a ton of fun! Thanks everyone for coming! It was a great time.