Christmas Parties

So our first event as a married couple was attending Jake’s work Christmas parties. It’s put on by a couple of the bigger doctors and it was a very fancy event. The dress code was business casual, but there was a string quartet and the caterer had things like shrimp and Alaskan King Crab. My favorite dish was a turkey on a orange glazed roll with a cranberry salsa. It was delicious! They also had an amazing desert called banana foster that was to die for. The only funny thing was that they served the food in martini glasses. Other then that there was not much to the party. Just sitting and talking. Although it was awesome to meet all of his colleagues.

The next day was his family’s Christmas party. It was at his sister’s house and we had a lot of fun. They had a buffet of different foods such as pizza bagels, pasta salad, chicken fingers, cheese balls, chips and candy. It was fun to just have a casual type dinner and people would just snack as we were different things. Although we had to prepare everything and one of Jake’s nephews,  Trey, really badly wanted to open presents. So while we were getting everything ready he just started going around telling everyone that it was time to come in and open presents. After all the guys (who were working outside) came in we realized what he was doing and had to turn the guys and kids away. After we got the food ready we went in and opened presents. Then Jake’s mom had gotten everything ready for us girls to paint a really cute stocking holder. It’s a pole that says “The North Pole” with upside down candy cane’s that hold the stockings. They are so cute and now I need to find time to finish it. Because the day was so warm and there was no snow on the ground we ended up painting outside meanwhile the guys started playing soccer or football. I was too preoccupied to notice exactly what they were playing. Finally when it got too cold or dark outside we came inside and played games.

Both were fun and now I can’t wait to play with the Cranny family.