Annual MacDonald Family Drop-In

 It was our favourite weekend of the Christmas season - our annual party where we invite friends and neighbours to drop in for some holiday cheer.  If you can believe it, we had over 100 people join us!!  People started coming around 2:30 and the last person left around 10:00.  

We will serve the first drink and then people are encouraged to help themselves after that. 

Lots of food and we seemed to have just the right amount. 

The kids mostly hang out in the basement so they had a few trays of food down there. 

A good opportunity to get a family photo when we are waiting for guests to arrive.

Dave's parents were here to help out as they always do. 

I took a few photos of the crowd.  Teenagers on their phones, Christmas movie in the background.

Little kids playing mini-sticks hockey.

Lots of mingling.  We were discovering overlapping friend groups throughout the party.

It is a lot of work to put this on, but we love doing it!

And if that wasn't enough excitement for one weekend, we also had Brunch with Santa at the golf club, and a music recital!

Q played Jingle Bells at the recital and E played Sweet Child of Mine. 

We got the house put back together and got to bed at a good time. 

Friday Favourites

 

We are rolling right along through December. 

We have our Christmas party tomorrow so this week we were getting ready for that.  We made some cookies.  Q was a great helper. 

I met this beautiful sight when I walked to work on Tuesday morning.  You know what they say “pink sky in the morning, sailors take warning” and we did get some snow that afternoon. 

Q had his school holiday concert, instead of singing his class played their stringed instruments. They did a great job and looked spiffy. 

I posted our decorations yesterday.  

I got to go to the Leafs game on Thursday, in a box, which is always a treat. 

I dropped into the Fairmont Royal York Hotel, my favourite decor in the city. 

Christmas Decorations

Welcome to our Christmas home! Our house looks the best at this time of year.  I love seeing what people have for decorations, everyone has their own style, and I need this post as a reminder to myself of where we put everything! This year we had a couple of new pieces of furniture so we needed to move a few things around.

We did a something different with the front lights this year and got an inflatable.

Our snowmen found a home over by the TV.

I have this Christmas cactus that is doing well but no signs of any flowers.