We decided to change things up a bit this year & instead of doing specific meal courses throughout the night, we had appetizers at each house with a different beverage of the host's choice served as well. It ended up being lots of great yummy food & we were getting stuffed by about the 3rd house!
The Taylor's were the 2nd to last stop out of 6 houses & rather than serving another appetizer, I ended up serving Strawberry Cheesecake (made by my friend Stetson) and a variety of caramel brownies & cookies. Also whipped up some icy fruity beverages in the blender! As you can see here, Julie liked them so much she had two :)
Everyone raved over how dee-lish Stetson's cheesecake was & were glad we added a little sweetness into the evening!The last stop was Dave & Gaels' where we enjoyed one last appetizer of stuffed shrimp wrapped with bacon which was awesome as well as many cocktails! We have also made it a tradition to do a White Elephant gift exchange at the last house but instead of a nice gift, you have to give a somewhat trashy gift & one that has been laying around your house. It was quite hilarious some of the gifts that were opened. The three best gifts that got the most attention was:
1) the briefs that said "Worlds Biggest Driver" modeled by Brian
2) the rubber chicken shown by Gael
3) the "head massager" demonstrated by Gael
After the gift opening, Julie, Gael & I enjoyed some shots made with Gael's homemade Baileys! Mmm Mmm good!
Self-portrait of Shane & I! Looks like Shane has had one too many Wild Turkey's!? :)
We had such a good time this evening with this group of friends - too good a time that we didn't notice it was well after 1 am once we looked at the clock! Wow - haven't been up that late in a LONG time! Thank you neighbors for another fun night - looking forward to all our get-togethers in 2010!
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