I am very glad I have these people to be my new Texas family.
It was a great night of delicious food, fun people, sweet kids, darling "Marys" and "Josephs" and I had my very own first white Christmas. I never thought it would be when I was living deep in the heart of Texas.
The girls getting ready for the Christmas play.
My very own Mary and Joseph.
Megan had a great program put together that included singing songs, the Christmas story, and of course all our little actresses. They took their roles very seriously.
Job well done ladies.
I need to write down our menu so I will remember it for next year. I have the worst memory and how can something become a tradition if it is not the same every year.
Ham, mustard sauce, jello salad with two hidden almonds (who ever finds the almonds gets a surprise. Chris and Megan found them...cheaters.), green salad, green beans, homemade rolls, homemade eggnog, and for dessert, french silk pie. Yummmmm.
After a fun night it was time to go home, write Santa a note, put out a carrot for Rudolph, and candy cane joejoes (brought all the way from Trader Joe's in California...I miss that place) for Santa and hurry to bed. Audrey was so excited and it made me feel like a kid again as well. Dave and I stayed up late putting together toys and being Santa's helpers. It made me feel like an official parent. For the first time, we was on our own. It was up to Dave and me to make this night something to remember. Thanks to the help of our great friends and some Christmas snow, I think we were successful.
2 comments:
i love that the life at the top keeps changing. that little huddle of girls is about the cutest thing ever. i bet "santa" sure enjoyed eating those candy cane joejoes. quite the coincidence that those are your favorite little christmas cookie, huh?
I don't know how I didn't see this post! THe pictures are great! And I promise we didn't cheat on the almonds! Although, it does look super suspicious that we both found them! Maybe we just have good "almond finding" skills??? Or no...it's the Danish heritage. But wait, I am actually not Danish....but I do sing the Danish song at birthdays! That counts right? :)
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