White Elephant Christmas Party

Our White Elephant Christmas Party!
My cute Little snowmen that i made for the party! They were so easy to make and so cute! The recipe for these little guys i found over at: http://myprettypurse.blogspot.com/2009/01/snowman-cookies.html
The beginning of our party! Our friends Anthony and Amanda decided to also make this a holiday sweater party, the best part was that Anthony loved wearing his sweater! Lets just say Amanda had plans of being a Teacher, but decided to go the nanny route to save everyone from her sweaters! LOL
Amanda and Paige, enjoying themselves!
Hum....what to say, this is just Kandace showing off the tree, that is so beautiful by the way!
BABIES, BABIES and more BABIES: what can i say she is really cute! Bella is about 4months old and was an attraction at the party. All in all we had 15+ people, 2 Preschoolers, 1 toddler, 1 baby and 3 pregos!!! Oh and we cant forget the partridge and A pear tree!
John and Amanda hosted this wonderful night at their house, after I asked if they wanted to have a party and i would invite the people!
Food Time! You can tell everyone is this picture is super excited.
Christine and her mommy Natalie!
I decided that since we were going to be doing a White elephants with all the adults that i would bring something for the kids to open. All the kids got one used book from Austin and then a new little toy that i found for them!

Side Note: Austin during the last 15 days leading up to Christmas, got to open one Christmas book everyday. No i did not buy new books for everyday, but instead took all his Christmas books and wrapped them up, he did finally get one new one on Christmas DAY!

Tearing into their presents!
Christine was a little more lady like about the whole thing! So cute!

She liked her dolly the dolphin book, i really do not know how Austin got such a perfect little girl book, so we were not too sad to see it go!
Getting ready for the great gift exchange!
Kalen and Melissa!
Ryan drew the lucky or not so lucky number 1!

Everyone was scared of what the kittle family would bring, they have an assortment of random things that only they appreciate ( like a poncho and sombrero), Kandace fell for their gift though and it did not fail to amuse everyone! I believe there was the underwear, a baby pumpkin and some other really random things in the bag! A good laugh for all!
Kalen got a printer, which ended up being a really hot gift stolen many times! Needless to say though the printer did not come with ink, which probably would cost more than the actual printer!
Amanda very scared of what she is opening!
Blake got the other Kittle gift, it was a Christmas tree, he didn't get to hold onto it for long though, it was also stolen many times!
Paige got a random movie that Kandace had double of and was really excited about it! I think i forgot to mention at the beginning of this blog that we had everyone bring an item that they already owned for the gift exchange. This was a lot of fun and many great memories for the Holidays. Many decided they would begin their quest for items early in this next year!