Holiday Sweater Party

Well, the 2nd annual holiday sweater party was a huge success! The evening started with a few helpers who prepared some of the food trays (Thanks Mom, Grandma, and Ashley). The night was filled with family, many friends, holiday spirits, seriously sweet holiday attire, picture posing, rear end modeling contests, more holiday spirits, itchy feet, charades (polar express), dancing, apples to apples, broken glass, hot sauce shots, mistletoe smooching, late night little weenies and tacos, and more holiday spirits with designated drivers. Everyone looked marvelous in their holiday apparel.

Last year’s Best Holiday Sweater Winner (Brian Ferguson) arrived looking better than ever in a fire red mock turtleneck sweater decorated with white snowmen, red and white candy canes, and delicious looking gingerbread men. Over the sweater, Brian showed off in a black sweater vest embroidered with green stitch, filled with beautiful blooming poinsettias and dressed up with shiny red sequins. This year, the 2007 Best Holiday Sweater Award went to a couple… Jon and Mandy! They arrived in style, wearing matching home made sweater vests. Their vests were lined with jingling holiday bells and filled with sponge Christmas trees decorated with colorful strands of garland, glittery gold leaves, green and red stocking (which was used as a pocket), a red Christmas ornament trimmed with gold glitter designs, a branch of full red berries, and lastly… a bird sitting on a tree bough which sat on each of their shoulders. Under her sweater vest, Mandy wore a red turtleneck filled with green and white holiday stockings and holly. Jon wore a plaid green turtleneck which complimented his vest very well. This year’s runner up was awarded to Scarlet who also arrived in a home made green holiday turtleneck. Her turtleneck was decorated with a lovely felt fireplace scene where the mantle sat directly on her mantle and was decorated with a stocking (which was given to her by Ashley and me last year when we announced we were expecting Caitlyn). Above the mantle was a picture of Caitlyn framed in a lovely red frame. She wore red Santa shorts which complimented her turtleneck well.

Everyone was dressed so well this year, which made the voting very difficult.
Thanks to everyone for celebrating the holiday season with us! We are incredibly lucky to have such amazing friends.

Also Caitlyn wanted me to thank everyone for the gifts that were left under the tree and for the especially soft teddy bear that was left sitting on her glider in her nursery room.
We are looking forward to the 5th annual New Year’s Eve Cocktail Party which is thrown by Jon and Mandy and is a blast every year.