Above is our beautiful Chocolate Christmas table before we dared to break into the goods, it was quite a sight and Grant snuck into the corner to strike a pose with his chocolate avocado pudding.
Me and Afton showing off all the beautiful deliciousness!
This is Afton's number one homie Finley Bee - she is such a doll. She's teaching Afton lessons on how to be nice, always coming up to hug her and share toys while Afton pushes her down, pulls her hair and steals the toy she's playing with. We love Finley and her beautiful Mommy Sarah.
Me and Sarah posed with Kyle Plummer who is sweet sweet Lucy's Dad, but he felt awkward being the only guy in the photo so we kicked him out and got Lucy's Momma Susie to be in our picture. These are friends from Burton who all had babies around the same time as me and we've stayed close. Love them loads
Mom's in effect - and I mean are those some cute babies or what???
Lucy Corey made that incredible 3 tier magic cake with home-made marshmallows on top, so insanely good, you can also see some of my coconut deliciousness and a peak of the French Mint I made which was kind of a show-stopper.
close up on cakes and the amazing "french mint" below
These are the party people who stayed late and raged to the wee hour of 9:30 with us. Love you Farrah, Jan, Chris, Lucy, Amy and Julia......oh and sweet sweet Ronin (who will be marrying Afton some time in the future)
These pictures we took before we got the rest of the red beads for our tree, so it's looking a little jank, but I had to show Afton in this dress, she's such a style star. And I'm still mourning the loss of the tree battle, but for being a fake, it's not bad right??
Justin thought my new eye-mask looked like a perfect baby bra, I told him that's crazy town so he proved his theory....and he's right, but it still makes a killer eye mask.
What a month it's been......or what a two months really since we've been super lagging on the blog train....sorry! I just wanted to let you all know that regardless of the fact that me Justin and Afton are all under the weather, we are getting through this difficult week like champs. There is just no way to stay sad too long when you're hanging out with Afton Grace King, she's non-stop comedy cuteness overload. Her new thing is bags, she must be carrying one at all times, and she fills them with all varieties of craziness, so cute you won't believe it, not as cute when she put a pregnancy test in my Cub Scouts bag that was only supposed to have a pinewood derby car and some badges, and you won't believe the places we've found tampons in this house. We finally put child proof latches on the bathroom drawers so her loot is going to be less interesting, but I'm sure she'll still find crazy stuff to tote around.
We are SO GLAD that we decided to have the 2nd Annual Chocolate Christmas Party despite all the goings on because it was super fun. Loads of people came, we went through a gallon of hot chocolate and all my treats were a raging success....not to mention the delicious goodies brought by others, so much fun and sooooo yummy. As you can see from the pictures the turnout was a little better than last year.
Love you all, looking forward to Christmas and we very much appreciate the kind words, thoughts and prayers on our behalf, we have truly felt them and love you back like crazy!
