Happy New Year!

It's here - 2012! I hope you all had a wonderful night last night, however you chose to celebrate. We went next door to our friends Cheryl and Steve for their 'annual bash', this year it was a 70's theme. I have a ton of photos, I just posted them to Facebook and posting them here for my Sis and anyone else that doesn't check Facebook :-)

 

 

So, I'm ready to start the new year, with a lazy day on the couch!!! What are you doing ;-)

Another Party!

Happy to say I'm feeling a little better today, but still very congested and I have a stuffed up nose and head! Thankfully I'm still managing to do a little shopping here and there so I am not really behind on my Christmas stuff.  As promised I am sharing more pictures (especially for my Sis) ;-). Last Saturday night we celebrated Cheryl's Mom's 65th birthday, with a cocktail themed party!

Remember I showed you this dress a few weeks ago that I bought for the night . . .

here it is . . . and I love it!

 

and here's a few more pictures from the night

Connor and Kristen

I was taking some pictures with Cheryl's camera, I nabbed these ones from her FB page

The birthday girl - Seera

Cheryl and her sweet Mom and Dad

Kristen in her new black and red top, it's about as 'girly' as I can get her!

Hubs and me, being silly :-)

I think that's all the partying we'll be doing til Christmas! School finishes on Friday, then we have all next week to catch up with things, bake cookies, make Chex Mix , decorate gingerbread houses, and all that good stuff. I still want to take more pictures of the decorations this year, and the outside too, it's just finding the time to do it. Hopefully over the weekend I'll get a chance.

Party Pics

Hi everyone,  I'm sick :-(  Urghhhh, just what I don't need at this time of year! (who does?!). I started getting a scratchy throat after my book club party last Thursday night, then the next day I didn't feel too bad. Thought it might just be allergies, I was a little congested but that was about it. On Saturday my throat was a little scratchy again but by the afternoon it seemed fine. By that night though it was feeling a little 'raw', but I thought it was because I'd been talking all night!  Well Sunday found me feeling worse, really bad cough, very sore throat and my face and nose were really  hurting. I think I've got a sinus infection too.

Anyway, hopefully I will feel ok in a day or so. I wanted to share some pictures from last weekend, when we were over at Cheryl's celebrating her 9 yr old's birthday ;-)  Later this week I'll share the pictures from this past weekend when we were celebrating her mom's 65th Birthday.

Unfortunately the only one of me and Jason turned out blurry! But the rest came out well . . .

These girls are the best of friends.... and growing up so fast too!

I'll be back soon with more pictures from last weekend. Jason left today to go to Denver for the week. It means I can rest up for a few days not having to have dinner made for him when he comes home from work ;-) It might be just chicken noodle soup for me and Kristen tonight!

Party Night - Picture Overload!

Two posts in two days, I may be on a roll!  Here's some pictures of our fun Halloween Party from Saturday night. I posted these on Facebook earlier this week, but my sis doesn't use FB, so I'm posting them all here mainly for her ;-)

My costume was from Pirates of the Caribbean. I have to say it was not that comfortable to wear, the 'off the shoulder' thing was rather frustrating and the cummerbund and belt just felt like they were riding up all the time! But it was still fun dressing up.I wanted Jason to be Jack Sparrow but the costume was $60 and we didn't want to spend that much (mine was on sale for just $29!). So he was a prisoner instead.

And here's why he picked a prisoner costume. . . .

Ha ha ha! Poor Boo! but really, I think he loved every minute of it!

 Here's pictures of the food and decor!

 I was going to make a pumpkin cake but Kristen saw this snake in a magazine I had so we did this instead.

 

I loved the guacomole!

and the first time ever we bought dry ice - it looked so cool in the kids punch bowl.

 the gorgeous Cheryl (she's an angel really!) :-)

 I loved Gabby's Ninja Turtle costume!

 Loved that Rene was Woody and his little boy was Buzz :-)

 Angry Bird!

 me and Angry Bird's Mom :-) AJ!

 I set up a cookie decorating and mask making table in the dining room for the kids.

 and outside I had 3 boxes of 'monster body parts' for the kids to FEEL!!!

 Monster Intestines! (spaghetti and oil)

 Goblin Eyeballs (grapes and olives)

 Zombie Brains! (oatmeal and oil, with pumpkin guts underneath!!)

Cheryl has more fun pictures on her camera (more importantly, ones with me and her together, that I haven't seen yet). Hopefully I can share them later. We certainly had an awesome night and I'd seriously consider doing it all again next year :-)