Fa la la la las bring friendly times!!!!

Justin's birthday was on the 26th, so we had a friendly dinner with these cuties, then hit up Les Mis with Chatfields in tow. Then, on to delish dessert- that stayed nice and cold in the snow :)

Love the Riverwoods at Christmas time!

 We are usually lucky enough to see these folks at Christmas time, but the last couple of years it's been really hit and miss, so it was a BLAST to hang this year. It's one of the funniest bunches of people there ever was! And whatya know, we may have found the cheap alternative to pregnancy prevention this night! Can't wait for our couples trip! Morris- get planning!!!!!

 Hunter's arrived first!

Then our lovely Allred's

Then Morris's

 and finally, Bye's!!!

 

 I think we were at Old Towne Grill for almost 3 hours. Boys on one side, girls on the other. It was the best. We seriously didn't stop laughing the whole time!!!!

Afterwards, I grabbed Justin and asked him to take some pics, but people were being slow, so I had a photoshoot of my own for a second.

gang's all here!

Ty & Kev wouldn't behave

 but eventually we all felt the love :)

New Years Eve is never that big a deal over here, but we had fun with Chatty's. They came over and hung til like- 11:30-we're party poopers :)

Sawyer likes to stand on the vent and make her dress super princessy also.

You know what we did most of the night? 

Well, we were 98 years old and did a puzzle!!!!

It was horrendous. 

Hardest puzzle I've EVER done, and so I enlisted all their New Years Eve help!

New Years Kisses-requested by the children

There were oodles of fireworks all around

Conli and Brent celebrating

Max, just so happy, and me all cock-eyed....I dunno

and kisses for Con

happy new year boys and girls!

Annual Ugly Shwetta Party!

Quick lil pre party insert here. My lady Ray was in town for the holidays, so we HAD to meet up and hang when we could fit it in. Betwixt hair and family, she didn't have mucho time, but we managed to fit in some Wendy's #7 and a wonderful convo to satisfy the friendly craving.

love you ray!

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:Later That Evening:

we decided to hold our festivites until after the holidy hubbub had settled down.

Worked out right nice it did!

had to have a bit of a photo shoot of course.

no idea what we were trying to make here...but there you have it...

 Got on fresh new lippy for this one I did.....mattered alot :)

Just hangin out pics....

Wendy modeling her steal of a sweater I found her at Savers that morning.

2 sexy ladies

and two more!

These 2 go way back :)

boys eating

me and our wonderful hostess

****COUPLES PICTURES****

i also discovered Brent and I's sweaters also- pretty sure mine was carrying some type of bug....and that there may have been puke on the tassles....dee-skus-ting

Brent's glasses were H.O.T.

 Sum & Justin- who loves pictures the most (winky winker wink)

Katie and Lance- had to get the whole picture

always a good time with the Gunn's

Wendy trying to give Cam some Christmas Spirit on his flavorless shirt

Some had to come sans significant other, so they played couples themselves

and Ben is thee.best.photo bomber ever.

try again! 

Sabra has also developed a new way to make herself shorter for photos

Jaren & Nicolle=adorbs matches

Jeff couldn't come, but that was ok cuz Heather had her christmas tree hair of glory to keep her company!

another all star creeper- Mr. Hydrick

Martin's

looks like cuppage, but wasn't cuppage

post eats, we got our white elephants on.

Brit fell for my beautiful wrapping skills.

All we had in there was uneaten crackers and stuff....

patiently waiting

Nicolle was grateful

So was Justin- you just can't tell :)

Wendy and Cam scored BIG.TIME.

Ben always ends up with the under wear....always

and always has the best present to present- oh boy

Brent decided to make use of the depends

he had us ROLLING

hooked ourselves up with some sah-weet 3D's

Wendy posing with her trophy

and with the star herself- yep, yours truly in her senior portraits

this book is titled- CRACKS-

the entire thing is....

Won some more unders...that went perfectly with Steph's sweater

Heather's winnings

Then we attempted Poor Man's Cranium, but got bored

after this wonderful performance, there was no need to keep going

This, my friends, is how you "charade" Goonies.....

 When it was time to leave, Summer's culdesac posed, once again, a threat to all cars.

It was awesome that Heather was there trying to push it out while most of the fellas hung out and watched

We found other ways to kill the time

They finally got the cars out and situated so people could move them, and the night ended up great! As it always does. Love our friends!