Extended Family Christmas Party

On Sunday evening, we had our extended family Christmas party. I'm not 100% sure how many people we had, but it was somewhere close to 60.

Little Warrior didn't like the crowd much.

We served up a baked potato bar and after everyone had eaten their fill, we decorated sugar cookies supplied by Princess. She made over 200 cookies all by herself, well, not quite all by herself, Tadpole helped too. They were so yummy!

Lots of decorating going on.

Once cookies were finished, we were surprised by a special visitor all dressed in red.

Some of the kids were really excited and happy to sit on Santa's lap.

Scout's been good all year??

We hear it all the time, Curly's such a great kid.

Skittles didn't seem to mind as long as he got his gift.

Of course Baby Doll loves Santa, she's always a good girl.

  Some, not so much, and they required their mamas to help.

Twizlet gives the best Stink Eye!

Even you, Little Warrior?

After presenting each child with a small gift, Santa packed up his sack and headed off.

Tadpole is pretty stoic...

Bye, Santa!!

I whipped 4 gallons of ice cream into eggnog shakes and after exchanging gifts, the family all drifted off to their own homes. My sweetie put away his Santa suit for yet another year, and we cleaned up the mess. I ate way too many sugar cookies.

Then we had our own Christmas singalong with Prima Donna on lead vocals. I miss having her beautiful voice around us.

Hope your evening was just as merry and bright...