Holiday Partaaays!

This holiday season was full of a few great holiday parties that I just had to share!

First off, we attended the Stansell's Dirty Santa Party - this theme was my favorite!  Everyone brought their drink of choice, a side dish/appetizer/or dessert that began with the letter of their last name, and a funny gift for the "dirty santa" gift exchange.  The gifts were hilarious...everything from a shake weight to used DVDs, to a pimp cup margarita glass that was very popular.  Like most gift exchanges, there was an option to steal each gift up to two times which made it even more fun.  We took champagne for our beverage of choice and muffins for our treat contribution. :)

 

The same night as the Dirty Santa party, we also attended our friend's annual ugly sweater party.  Unfortunately because the two parties fell on the same night, we did not partake in the ugly sweater theme this year (another reason why is because last year Jeff and I went to six different stores, goodwills, etc to find sweaters with hardly any luck or selection...wasn't really up for that this year haha).  Unfortunately didn't get any pictures at the house party portion of this party, but the party moved to Blue Moose on Washington and here are good pics from the night:

Allen and his great ugly sweater get-up

non ugly sweater couple #1

 Ran into sweet Marci!

 Chris, Jeff, and Allen

 non-ugly sweater couple #2 Lexi and Chris

 ugly sweater dance party :)

The very next night was Jeff's company's holiday party at the Corinthian downtown.  It was beautiful and really a good time...any girl loves getting dressed up and Jeff picked out my beautiful little gold dress - loved it!

On the balcony

Ice sculpture and drink mixer...

I love you

Another Christmas tree pic...we originally took our first at Jeff's company's holiday party in Austin in 2007...check it out below:

2010

2007 flashback :)

The next weekend was my company's holiday party at the amazingly delicious Eddie V's in City Centre.  I had the awesome opportunity of coordinating this event, and loved every moment!  Great wine, champagne, seafood towers, and more...it was a great night!

My handsome husband and I...LOVE my blue shoes still (you can read the story on my search here)

Jacci and I at the party :)

We attended two holiday parties in San Antonio while visiting Jeff's family.  One was a "wine and cheese" theme that Jeff's friend Trevor hosts annually.  I ran into an old friend randomly from high school there who just so happened to know some of Jeff's friends - small world!  I must have been having too good of a time because I got no pictures from this party.  The 2nd was hosted by Jeff's good friend from high school Mike, at his new house.  Here are a couple pics from that fun party/night out - I love seeing Jeff with all his old friends; makes me so happy...

Eric, Mike, and Jeff

 just us again

 Don't mind Mike..he is wearing that hideous sweater on purpose haha - and their facial expressions, that is just part of their humor.  Jeff's old friends are so funny to be around, always making me laugh. :)

Lastly, the BEST holiday celebration each season is New Years Eve.  This year we actually did not go skiing in Breck like the past three years, so we decided to attend a real NYE party in our favorite city - Austin, Texas.  Abel's on the Lake was just awesome.  Open bar, great food, live band, and DJ upstairs.  Abel's is right next door to Hula Hut, which unfortunately caught on fire that night from a spark from the fireworks show.  It was crazy to see so close and boy did it make leaving that party mighty difficult (streets were all closed off)!  Hula Hut is still open though and doing just fine...you can read about it here.

Lexi and I at the pre-party

 Chris and Lexi

 love

 best friends, Jeff and Ross

 Here's to another wonderful year!

 And that was our holiday party season in a nutshell...not too shabby and always so fun spending so much time with good friends!