Is it 1987 in here?

What: The Griffins 1st Annual (???) Christmas Party

When: December 19, 2009 (despite what the pictures look like) 7pm

Where: The Griffin Estate

Theme: Ugly Christmas Sweater

Cast of Characters: The KPMG Gang!

Everyone did a spectacular job with the sweaters, but the Masseys really commited themselves to the part.... check out the wine bottle!

Here's everyone else... The McDannels

The Smyths

Sorry about the hair! It's how he rolls.

Now let's talk about the food. Unfortunately, I didn't remember to take a picture of the spread before our friends devoured everything, but I'll go ahead and tell you what we offered...

• Sausage & cheese balls
  
• lil smokies
  
• stuffed mushrooms (PW's recipe... she makes me want to be a better person!)
  
• pheasant wrapped in bacon (courtesy Chris' hunting trip last weekend)
  
• cheese and crackers
  
• fruit (courtesy Ashley & the Dallas Arboretum) with fruit dip (courtesy ME... that stuff is GOOD)


• white trash chex mix


• mint chocolate chip brownie bites


• sugar cookies


• cheesecake (again, courtesy Ashley & the Dallas Arboretum).


• ALCOHOL (the key ingredient to a good party)

I almost thought that we were going to have waaaaaaay too much food, but our dear friends proved me wrong as they ate EVERYTHING! I think there were 3 crackers left over at the end.

Since I have just recently started cooking for real, it made me feel good for others to enjoy the stuff I cooked. There just might be hope for me and this cooking thing after all.

Activities:

We cheered on the Cowboys to a victory over the previously undefeated NO Saints... Go, Cowboys! There just might be hope for them after all... but probably not for kicker Nick Folk... sorry, buddy.

As usual, as some point in the evening there was a discussion of grammar, specifically apostrophe placement in contractions. Hey, what good party doesn't include a grammar lesson. For this Reading teacher, that is ALWAYS a good time.

The only thing that was missing was a good round of some sort of board game... Why, you ask? Well, because Chris and I don't own any board games. We are SO lame. Sorry, everyone. Maybe next time.

All in all... Party = Success.

Oh, I almost forgot. I gave prizes for the best (worst) ugly Christmas sweater...

Jordan was pretty excited about it. :)

Merry Christmas!

~D