Christmas Bunco! Our neighborhood Bunco group meets every month for a girls night out. December has always traditionally been Kate's month. She puts on a wonderful Christmas party and gift exchange in place of our monthly bunco.
I was assigned dessert. I made
Oreo Truffles; the easiest dessert EVER! Go
HERE to find the recipe. They don't look too different than the picture.
Since I made such an easy dessert, I decided to try something else a little more ambitious...
Snowmen Cake Pops! If you go
HERE, you can find the recipe, directions, and a picture of what they are supposed to look like.
I didn't use sticks.... As a result, the chocolate puddled around the bottom, and our snowmen look like they are melting. I couldn't find the matching cookies or the candy coated sunflower seeds for the noses, so we substituted moon and star sprinkles. The cookie hats were replaced with Butterfinger bells.
Here are my snowmen helpers hard at work! Chris was putting on the hats and the arms. Cheryl was putting on the nose and the buttons. AND this all needed to be done before the chocolate hardened. They were purposely getting in each others way. We laughed and laughed! Then we ran out of white chocolate and had to use milk chocolate, so we have racially diverse snowmen. Cheryl tried giving the milk chocolate snowmen dreadlocks! lol!
On to Bunco night where there was lots of food, fun, and laughter. Kate's tree (posted above) was beautiful, and her entire house was decked out for Christmas! Look at the great appetizers shared by Stephanie, Tina, and Anne.
Kathy, Julie, Connie, Anne and Kate are digging in for dinner! Dinner was pot luck and everything was WONDERFUL! I was so stuffed!
Here's our Bunco Babes. First there's our Bunco queens, Stacy and our hostess Kate!
Lorraine, Tammy and Kathy, all with beautiful smiles!
Anne and Iris, looking very festive!
Another picture of Stephanie and Tina... Looking gorgeous, ladies!
It's me getting into the picture with Nora.
Here's a few photos after the gift exchange... First of all, here's Kate getting FIT!
And Tina, looking FABULOUS in her new wrap!
And here are Julie, Connie and Lorraine admiring Tina in her new wrap... or is that smile on Julie's face from the chair?
I don't know what time I stumbled back home from next door, but Chris said it was at least 11:30pm. A wild late night for me, hahaha!
Merry Christmas, Bunco Babes!
I hope you all had a great Christmas! We usually take our family photo when we are all dressed up just before leaving for my Aunt's and Uncle's house on Christmas Eve, but forgot all about it this year in the rush to leave. So here we are in all our glory (and PJs) on Christmas morning.
Time for presents!!!
Jena got a present from Grandma. She opened it all by herself!
Poor Jena... being terrorized by Cheryl's Zu-zu pet.
What did you get, Jim?
The FUN continues at Grandma and Papa's house. First here's Chris with a great BIG box! I had a photo of Cheryl too, but she made me promise not to post it on the blog, hehehe...
Hana and Papa waiting patiently.
Noah is digging right in!
Jacob getting distracted by one of his presents. Open now, Jacob and read later... Cathy is catching it all on film.
Leah LOVES her new shirt!
Merry Christmas to all, and God bless us every one!
