Princess wrote this on another thread.
Steve and I are recovering from our annual family Christmas party we had last night. It's fun to have Christmas celebrations with the family after all these years. This was the first year the ENTIRE family made it. My three former dub brothers, their wives and children and my parents as well as my grandpa. We had former dub cousins, a former dub uncle as well as former dub friends. We were thrilled that Dim and his wife were able to come as well. About 30 some people in all. It was fun, but the headaches are horrible.
It was a GREAT party. Really good food, champagne, fine wines, and rum nog! I was talking to everyone so much, I didn't eat very much, but I had several glasses of champagne. Very fun.
We had a Christmas ornament exchange and it was great. I had mine taken TWICE, by my daughter in law, so I chose another one, then my son took that one. I ended up with several our youngest son had made.............bright colored stars. It got wild, with people taking ornaments others had already opened, but that is what makes it fun!!
It is a lot of work, and I am so proud of our daughter, for the way she pulls off these parties. Her house is perfect for them, so she is usually the one who throws the parties.
The weather was horrible here yesterday, because the "Pineapple Express" (rainstorm up from Hawaii) came through and really DUMPED the rain on us all day, and high winds too. It was only 50 degrees, but you couldn't NOT get wet.