Merry Christmas!!!

in July that is. Actually it is belated Merry Christmas in July. I have a friend who has an annual Christmas in July party every year and I made a quick trip to Iowa to attend. This one was special because we used it as an opportunity to bestow some Christmas presents onto a dear friend who is currently displaced due to the floods. We still had our white elephant exchange in which I ended up with a turtle footstool--yep-a turtle footstool. I also was chosen through a drawing to get to have the traveling white elephant gift (it returns every year)--"The Multiply Pot" but that is for another post.

The next night we had a sleepover at a friend's house. The kids had a blast. We have 9 kids with one on the way (not me!) between our two families. John & Jackson (currently the only boy in the other family) especially had a great time together--they are only 3 months apart in age. We didn't see much of them except at mealtime.The girls enjoyed being, well, girls together.