Christmas Parties

I love the holiday season. I have so much fun getting together with friends and family and celebrating. Last Friday night was my (Ali's) work party. We went to Lugano and had a very nice dinner and then enjoyed fun conversations with those I work with. We played a gift exchange game. The first gift I opened up was a Green Bay Packers Christmas stocking. I was thrilled when I got doubles with the dice and was able to steal a duffle bag full of balls. I was lucky enough to end up with the gift and Ryan just loves it. I open it up, lay all of the balls on the ground and just let Ryan go to town. I took a couple of them to church yesterday and all of the kids loved playing with them. Eric got a marble play device thing. Yeah, I don't know what it's called, you basically create a little obstacle course type thing for a marble and then drop it into the first hole and it eventually finds its way to the bottom. He did a great job setting it up. Nikki likes it too. She loved to put the marble in it and could have done it all day long. It did well until I tried to move it and it fell over, sorry Eric. You are going to have to set it up again one day. We also went to my aunt Joy's house yesterday for the Black family Christmas Party. I love that party. It is one of the only times I get to see my Mom's side of the family. Plus, we always play Bingo. I don't know why, but I love playing Bingo at this party. There are so many people that it was madness for a little bit, but I loved every minute of it.