Holiday Happenings

At Manny's in Dallas.

Emily meets Sophie the great dane.

Hello! I should be napping while Emily's napping but I decided to blog a bit. Besides, I keep telling myself that I'll get a break when Jon gets home. Last weekend we had so much fun going to two parties! Woo hoo!

First we went to Mark and Leslie's annual cookie exchange party at their new house in Dallas on Saturday. I'm so grateful they have these get togethers because that's the only way we ever get to see them! This year I brought cranberry cheesecake bars and cranberry white chocolate chip cookies. Yummy! Most people brought cookies from the store but there were some other homemade goodies that we really liked. Emily had a blast playing with the other toddlers. She kept up pretty well by crawling really fast. I hope that by seeing other kids walk, she'll start walking too. Mark and Leslie have a great dane named Sophie and Emily really liked her.

On Sunday afternoon we headed to Manny's Restaurant in Dallas for Ken's retirement party. Jon and I worked with Ken during the 2000 Census so I got to see a lot of people I used to work with. Ken was so surprised when he walked into the place and saw all of us! Everyone loved Emily and she had lots of fun meeting new people. The food was good but I should've ordered a margarita when I had the chance!

I've got one more holiday gathering this Friday at Marianno's in Arlington with some of my friends. And that'll do it for holiday parties until Christmas and New Years.