Tis The Season...

...For parties! Actually, we haven't had too many to attend since a few of the ones we are usually invited to occurred the weekend of Carrie's wedding. You just can't be in two places at once. It seemed like this last week was the week of parties, and, of course, I took waaaayyyy too many pictures. Seems the family enjoys them so here goes.

Thursday at KU was Eli's school party. A riveting game of musical chairs and then yummy snacks...the recipe for a successful school party. Even Phoebe enjoyed it. She played musical chairs and ate most of Eli's snacks.

Eating a chocolate mouse...cutest snack at the party!


Such great buddies

And no party is complete without a wrestling match!


Thursday night I hosted my very first Caroling Party. Growing up, my parents had some friends who had one every year for about seven years. You get about three or four families together and go caroling at people's houses. Our children are just about the right age to really get into it and they sang with gusto! Then we all headed back to the Taj McCall (what Brad calls our house) for cookies, hot cocoa, and coffee. A fun tradition that we will definitely be doing again next year!
Okay, so the pictures of us actually caroling aren't so great. There were six adults, five kids, and two "babies" and apparently that was too many people to fit into my camera screen without inviting myself into the Knebush's house.

If you want to see a better picture, head over to my friend,Keri's, blog. We crashed a party she was attending at another friend's house and...

...Santa was there!!

Phoebe was not too sure about Santa, but she sure did enjoy wearing this hat!

And she had no problem with the cookies, either!

I think this picture just about sums up their relationship.


Friday night we had our Sunday School class party. This was the only good picture we took.

Our babysitter had to take about five pictures of the two of us because Brad was having a hard time "looking happy." Sheesh.