The title would imply that this blog is about kissing Eggnog in British speak. It is not. I lied.
This week has been pretty crazy work-wise, so I was very excited to let my hair down and host the annual Ladies Christmas Party this weekend. This party has been been an annual occurrence for the last 6 years at least, and it’s always the most festive, fun time with all the girls. Over the years, this party has featured Gingerbread Playboy Mansions complete with “The Girls Next Door” cast printed out and stuck on the plastic lawn, Christmas Tacos, viewings of straight-to-video Holiday Movies starring the Olsen Twins, gifted fart machines and infamous photos of all the attendees pretending to sleep or pass festive gas. Needless to say, it’s always my favourite Christmas event.
This year’s potluck festivities included delicious contributions of KFC, 4 layer dip, yummy strawberry salad, a cheese plate and puff pastries as far as the eye can see! And for the finale, Sara brought homemade cheesecake pops which were decorated all festive-like. We watched Love Actually and spoke in British accents and then watched Little Women and laughed at Claire Danes (sorry Kari!). There was an awesome gift exchange where we all stole and received gifts (which I did a terrible job of documenting…) and all left with fun presents!
This week is my last at work before the Holidays, and I’m hoping it will be less frantic and provide a nice, gradual transition into the break (It won’t, but a girl can dream). After that, it’s a trip home to Kingston to celebrate with Family and some Holiday time with Toronto family too. Maybe I’ll have so much free time, I’ll blog a little more frequently! WON’T THAT BE A CHRISTMAS MIRACLE?!
Ugly:
The “Forever Lazy” I received in the gift exchange. It might be ugly, but it’s philosophy is beautiful.
Awesome:
The cheesecake pops. And seeing all my ladies – Merry Christmas beautiful ladies!
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- The party starts with Sara!
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- The Christmas Tree slowly gets full of presents!
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- Christmas Chocolate Balls!
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- Christmas Chocolate Balls in a Bird Bowl!
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- Cheese Board!
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- Toasting with Eggnog!
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- Normal, girl next door Eggnog…
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- Sassy, Candy Cane Eggnog!
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- Sara and Kari watching a movie about Elves who are also ad executives.
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- Monica arrives and models her festive wear.
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- Watching Love Actually!
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- Me and Monica Christmasing!
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- Putting on my Christmas Face.
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- Showing off my Christmas Face.
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- It’s just not Christmas without a giant bucket of KFC!
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- Home-Made Cheesecake Pops!! Better than PC brand!
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- mmmm delicious
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- Ladies family Christmas portrait! (unfortunately missing the usual Vicky and Claire!)
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- Caitlin’s hair-do competition – Alex’s entry.
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- Kari’s hair-do contest entry.
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- Celeste’s “hair-do” contest entry. WHO WON? YOU DECIDE…
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- TIME TO WATCH LITTLE WOMEN!
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- All the girls love this movie JUST as much as I do!
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- Well, at least Kari does.
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- How much does Celeste love Claire Danes??
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- …This much.
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- The annual “feeding of Claire Danes”. It happens at every Christmas party.
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- Testing out my “Forever Lazy”! I look like Gollum.
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- Forever Lazy in style.
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- Celeste models after children in In touch magazine.
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- Sara models after a very happy Fran Drescher
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- Perfect ending to a perfect party!
Looks like a lot of fun! I love annual parties! May yours go on for many years to come!
ugh.. love actually.. how i cringe.
Looks awesome! Thank you as well for reminding me about the gift exchange!