Christmas Party

Joe, my friend Kate and I threw a Christmas Party at my place.  I baked some cookies and brownies in preparation yesterday.  The cookies were instant Pillsbury with snowmen designs on them.  I wanted something simple and festive.  I turned the brownies into Christmas trees by cutting them into triangles and making green frosting to swirl over them with star sprinkles on the very top.  They looked cute but it was hard to cut and mold them since they were moist and kept falling apart.  When I got home I made sliders with King’s Hawaiian Roll buns and Spanakopitas (Trader Joe’s brand so I just had to heat them up).  Originally I was going to make some more stuff but I just didn’t have time.  Kate made gingerbread cupcakes with molasses frosting, candied pecans and a mulled wine.  I heated up some hot apple cider in my crockpot.  Last time nobody really drank any of the soda or beer so I just put out the alcohol we had leftover from the Halloween party and only bought one liter of Coke.  Lots of people came and nearly everything got eaten up.  The Coke went quickly and there wasn’t anything really to mix the alcohol with.  I guess I should have gotten more soda but it’s hard to predict what people are going to drink.  I got an elf shirt to wear (XL to fit over my belly) but it was funny because I didn’t really look six months pregnant.  From the front you almost couldn’t even really tell.  Someone even said to me, they forgot I was pregnant until I turned to the side and they could see the bump but they didn’t notice it from the front.  Joe put up Christmas lights  around the house in addition to our tree and replaced the hall and kitchen lights with red and green bulbs so the lighting was nice.  I got so tired I went to bed at 2am before all the guests even left. It was really fun but I definitely think this is our last party for a while.