Christmas Party!

Today we threw the party of a lifetime.... Or so it seemed. :) Derc and I are both passing Christmas here and we thought that it would be fun to have a little Christmas cookie party for all the people in town who have supported us, been our friends, or just generally been friendly to us over the last couple years. We hand-made and hand-delivered invitations this month, and Fatima and I spent the last week baking cookies and picking up all the supplies for mulled apple cider and eggnog. By three this afternoon (when the party was supposed to start, roughly) we were ready to go! We tried to make this an open-house kind of event, but everyone seemed to come roughly on time and stay for a couple hours. It turned out well - about 60-75 people came by! Our cookies and drinks all disappeared over the course of the afternoon, as did the gingerbread houses. :) It was so pleasant to chat with all these people that  we greatly appreciate - and it was doubly nice to receive invitations to come visit on these cold December nights at their houses!