Christmas Parties

Last Friday Joe, Avery, and I went to Joe's work Christmas party. Of course we forgot the camera so we have no photos, but the night was quite enjoyable. Joe just mentioned the party in passing, really in telling me that he was getting off work early because there was a party that he did not plan on attending. When I heard it was his work Christmas party and that there would be dinner and dancing I told him we were going. I never get dressed up to go out so this was a perfect excuse. Avery was of course a big hit with all of Joe's coworkers and she was held all night by accommodating ladies so that I could eat my dinner and socialize without the baby on my hip. In the end Joe was glad we went and I learned that I can't wear 4 inch heels like I used to.

The next day was our ward Christmas party. I still think it feels a little early to be having Christmas parties already,but the month is FLYING by so I guess it's good they got put in the schedule at all. Instead of a long program our ward did a service project that involved putting together meals and taking them to families we knew of who could use the food this year. After that was the usual yummy dinner and 3 kinds of dessert (I had all three, two of them before I had dinner!). There was a short story time with Santa at the end of the night so Avery got her first Santa picture taken. Keep in mind this is a church event so the Santa does not look like the typical commercial Santa. He is more like a Father Christmas. I'm sure that the big yawn is nothing personal against Santa, it was just a long night.