Revival of the Sweater Party

We have a standing tradition to have a get together with all of our friends around the holidays, a.k.a., The Ugly Sweater Party.  It's always so much fun to get together and see everyone.  Especially because as we all are getting older people have gotten married and moved away and our get togethers have been few and far between.  Then the sweater party took a 2 year hiatus...  One of our top priorities after moving in was to ensure that we would host and start up the sweater party tradition again.  We would finally have the space to entertain our friends!!  Yahoo!!  I wish I had been more organized as I had some ideas for decor that never ended up coming to fruition.  There's always next year as we plan to keep this tradition going.  It was so great to see our friends that are in the service and have been either deployed or stationed far away. We missed Brett this year, but were able to catch up with him over Thanksgiving.  I really missed all of my girls!!!!  We didn't have chicken wings this year-only because Tracy was unable to make it.  There was a reenactment of Derissa running fennel seeds through the dishwasher.  And the high point was that nothing was broken not was my house destroyed...Well, we are getting older and are much more mature...  Right?