Help hanging lights!

Today was perfect for hanging Christmas lights. Sunny and light wind. In fact I was not much in the Christmas spirit, but I know that when its cold and snowy and I'm in the Christmas mood, my husband would not want to be out hanging lights. It was so nice that all our animals enjoyed the outdoors with us. Marley and Mo had a fun time playing chase! Marley soon tired of Mo and turned her attention to helping Gordon hang lights.Marley wanted to make sure that when the wind blew the lights would still work, so she put them to the test!

If only we could get her to hang them in the tree!

Megan went out and took pictures of our big pine tree, however it is quite dark, but very nice in person!

A view from the front

Now all that remains is to decorate the inside of the house!

Twirp 08

Katie got a group of friends together and decided to have a progressive dinner for Twirp.
Smart girl! Twirp stands for The girls are required to pay. Sadie Hawkins for us older folks! They had appetizers and pictures at one house, dinner (lasagna) at one, then all dressed up, they went bowling. That's right bowling!!

Dan and Katie

They look so cute!
The group and their dates. Notice Katie and Dan are the shortest of the group!
I thought the appetizer plate looked cool, and wanted a picture to remember it.
A group effort, of setting the table for dessert. The dance was a secret garden theme, so we did the same. Megan made really cute place cards, Gordon and I set the table.Megan dressed up to serve the guests, as a secret garden fairy!
Per Katie's request we served Bananas Foster! Now we had never made nor tasted Banana's Foster before. So we called our cooking friend Karen, and got a recipe. Then we figured since it needed to flambe we had better try it first. So we had a test run, it turned out perfectly!! I thought my microwave was going to melt, but it was fine, and beautiful. Flames to the ceiling, really. Then the kids came and everything was perfect, except we couldn't get the flames to go it just kind of fizzled. But they said it still tasted good.

The night was a success, and Katie said our table and decorations were better than the dance!!

Sweet girl! It did look awesome if I do say so myself. Lights down low, and lots of candles!!
It helped save them $$ and was a lot of fun to do!