Progressive Dinner Anyone???

Have yall been to a progressive dinner before?? It's soo much fun! My small group from church did one this year for our Christmas party. We had a Mexican theme, which was fun to plan. If you've never a part of a progressive dinner here's how it works. You choose a theme and then get people to sign up for 3 different meal courses. We did appitizers at one house, main meal at another, and then desserts and white elephant gift exchange at the last house.

At the house number one we did queso, 7 layer dip, guac, chips, and virgin margs ( we didn't want to drink and drive while we are doing the traveling from house to house). We all had a blast! Then we drew numbers and paired off with our drivers. It was a lot of fun to hang out with some people that we didn't chat with over apptizers.:)

For the main course we were very blessed to have the food provided by a chef in the group. Tony is a chef at Abundance Cafe here in Dallas, cooked up a lot of yummy stuff. We had green chili sour cream chicken enchiladas, rice, beans, tortillas (homemade), and beef fajitas. What a great meal! Then we drew numbers again hoped in the right car and headed to dessert and white elephant gift exchange.

I brought Sopapillla cheesecake (thanks Jennifer R) and everyone loved it! For the white elephant gift i regifted part of what i had gotten last year and then put in a half used candle. It was hilarious when the person who picked my gift opened it, because the couple (Libby & Kenny) who brought it last time totally remembered it. It was soo funny! We all loved seeing what everyone got. I got a purple blowup guitar, a Garfield mask, huge yellow sunglasses, and a red feather. I tried it all on but haven't got the pics. I'm not sure I want the whole world to see it anyway. I was pretty goofy looking.

Anyway, we had soo much fun hanging out in people's houses and getting to know one another better. I can't wait for the next progressive dinner!!!!!


PS - Sorry for the incorrect spellings but the spell check decided not to work tonight.:)

Fun Times in December

During the month of December it was filled with tons of fun Christmas Parties, unfortunately I didn't take enough pics. But when I went to the Arboretum my bff Brittany and her kiddos. Before heading to the Arboretum we stopped at this fun local diner -Bar Becs - which reminds me of The Bluebonnet Cafe in Marble Falls, TX.

Here's the 4 of us before heading out!


Clay was too funny and decided he wanted to hide from the camera.

They have a ton of fun things to do there from getting a pic with Santa by James French to getting your face painting. Brittany really wanted a great pic of Clay and Carolina with Santa, so we tried and tried but in the end Brittany had to pose with Santa too. After all that, we went to get their faces painted. It was soo cute! Carolina got her first one which was a snow man. Later we found the pirate ship, which Clay loved! Here's a fun pic of Carolina and I right before we left.



It's always soo much fun to go to the Arboretum with Brittany and the kids.:)