This year Carla hosted our Sista's Christmas Party. She is a great hostess and has everything perfect. I love this crazy group of ladies...they make me smile! I love being silly with them and I think most of them love being silly with the rest of us. I of course brought a few props to make the pictures sillier. I have so many I might as well use them when I remember right? Today was also the "Angelversary" for Tyson..Jodi's son. It hit me hard this year and I was really glad that Jodi came to the party to be with us all. Jodi is such a remarkable lady...I admire the crud out of her! Life goes on even when we are not whole...we can smile when we want to cry...we can laugh even though we're sad...we can enjoy although we are broken...we are so much more than we sometimes realize!
Carla made yummy chicken and rice with gravy. I think she must also of been the one who made the relish tray. She asked the rest of us to bring treats to share with everyone. We had plenty of good eats.
We got silly and every now and then we decided to just be cute. ☺ I always enjoy looking at our pictures because they make me smile all over again.
We had a gift exchange and Carla decided since she was the Hostess she should hand out the gifts. It is always fun to see what others bring. It is always fun to go home with something else. I thought the gift Patty brought was clever....a BIG Peppermint Patty from Patty. I thought the gift Jolene brought was the most thoughtful and it was given to Jodi which I thought was perfect. It was a darling Nativity picture with a poem that Jolene wrote...very fitting today. The other gifts were wonderful, yummy and cute!
I played around with some Christmas Frames and a few of my favorite pictures. Friends must certainly be a "symbol" of Christmas because they add so much to this wonderful season.
I'm glad that when we said be silly I wasn't the only one being silly. They all crack me up!
a few more just because...
I love love love this time of the year! It really is the most wonderful!
