{"id":1958,"date":"2009-12-29T19:52:34","date_gmt":"2009-12-29T19:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebunnylog.com\/journal\/2009\/12\/29\/christmas-par-tay\/"},"modified":"2009-12-29T19:54:46","modified_gmt":"2009-12-29T19:54:46","slug":"christmas-par-tay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thebunnylog.com\/journal\/2009\/12\/29\/christmas-par-tay\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Par-tay!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since my parents do Christmas presents on the Eve, we didn&#8217;t have much planned for the rest of Christmas Day after opening our own presents. I was delighted that Starr invited us over along with Geneva, Layne and Phoenix. I always get so bummed out right after opening presents. So much preparation and excitement and hub bub for the one big day and then bam, all done. Of course it&#8217;s fun to play with all the goodies you got but I still get a little sad when it&#8217;s all over. So I was happy to prolong it just a little bit with a party at Starr&#8217;s house! Woohoo! I made pumpkin cupcakes with cream cheese frosting, my now &#8220;famous&#8221; homemade thin mints, macaroni and cheese and some pretzles with chocolate kisses and M&amp;M&#8217;s on top and homemade chocolate lollipops.<\/p>\n<p>We played a fun game while we were there. Everyone gets a sticker on their back with the name of a celebrity that made the news that year. We have to guess who we are by asking yes or no questions to everyone else. It was so much fun! I was Michael Jackson and I was suprised at how long it took me to guess him! Yves was Bernie Madoff and he was the last to guess. So a bit later we did the White Elephant. Everyone brings a gift and one person picks a gift and opens it. Then the next person on the list can either take away your gift or opt to open a new gift. I goofed by only bringing one gift from me and Yves. The kids each got a gift but got to keep the ones they opened! I ended up getting scratch off lottery tickets (no winners, boo!) and Yves got coffee mugs and dish towel\/mitt because Geneva was nice enough to be the one short changed a gift. The big prize was the Blue Mountain coffee I gave as a gift. Geneva opened it and it got taken by Starr. LOL. Brian made pulled pork sandwiches with homemade BBQ sauce, collard greens, butternut squash and slaw. Geneva brought over a wonderful green salad with cranberries and walnuts in it. It was really a fun time!<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/thebunnylog.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/group500.jpg\" alt=\"group500.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nLayne, Yves, Geneva and Starr<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/thebunnylog.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/sylviemouth.jpg\" alt=\"sylviemouth.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nSylvie and a messy cookie<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/thebunnylog.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/chocosienna500.jpg\" alt=\"chocosienna500.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nSienna didn&#8217;t do too badly with the chocolate!<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/thebunnylog.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/ducksienna500.jpg\" alt=\"ducksienna500.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nSienna got a platypus for her White Elephant gift, which she promptly called a duck.<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/thebunnylog.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/briannico500.jpg\" alt=\"briannico500.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nNico watching excitedly as his dad Brian opens his gift (2 frames and M&amp;M&#8217;s)<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/thebunnylog.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/phoenixpuzzles500.jpg\" alt=\"phoenixpuzzles500.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nPhoenix got our puzzles!<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/thebunnylog.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/yvesgift500.jpg\" alt=\"yvesgift500.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe kids flocked around Yves a lot that night!<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/thebunnylog.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/starrsylvie500.jpg\" alt=\"starrsylvie500.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nStarr and Sylvie<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/thebunnylog.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/coolfamily500.jpg\" alt=\"coolfamily500.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nSome great peeps!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since my parents do Christmas presents on the Eve, we didn&#8217;t have much planned for the rest of Christmas Day after opening our own presents. I was delighted that Starr invited us over along with Geneva, Layne and Phoenix. I always get so bummed out right after opening presents. So much preparation and excitement and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,4,10,13,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thebunnylog.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thebunnylog.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thebunnylog.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thebunnylog.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thebunnylog.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thebunnylog.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thebunnylog.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thebunnylog.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thebunnylog.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}