2013 Letters to Santa

Letters to Santa this year, made simple with this free printable. 

Printable found here.

Favorite Things Christmas Party

I have wanted to do a favorite things party of quite some time, so I finally did it---and I did it Christmas themed.  It was so much fun!!  There was SO much fun and laughter.  13 moms, away from their kids in a festive environment.  And it was just a party, no selling things or fundraising or pressure.  Just great fun! So here's what I put together:

Invites:
Simple, just printed them out on my printer....

Banner: (and of course the house if decorated with Christmas and a huge tree in the room, so I didn't need much more for decorations)

Refreshments:
Veggies and my Favorite dip
Fruit and one of my favorite dips
A festive Holiday drink
And Chocolate cupcakes with a cream cheese peppermint frosting

And of course the exchange of favorite things:

**I was going to take a picture of the table when everyone had their items on it (and also of the party itself, but I'll admit I was having a great time and forgot)  But there were some great things!

Prize:
Whipped up some festive cutting boards/trivets to give as prizes to the 2 with the highest points (and one went to the person with the lowest points...just to shake things up)

Seriously thinking about having another Christmas Party next year!!!

Grinch Hand Sanitizer

We went a little Grinch crazy this year, but my kids were excited to have this fun hand sanitizer sitting around :

Grinch Mugs

Love how these turned out!

And then the kids wanted Grinch mugs, too....

Santa Cutting Board

I vinyled this cutting board for Christmas.  Now to decide how I want to use it...simple decoration, serving plate, trivet....

Little Red Bucket

Found this red, metal bucket at the Dollar Tree.  It was plain red, so I added some snowflake and "JOY" to it for Christmas.

Christmas Sandwich Containers

School lunches got a little festive: