Staff Party!

We hosted Jeremy's staff last night at our house for their Holiday Party. It was alot of fun planning but also very tiring. I worked all week getting things ready and Jeremy helped me out a ton! Pretty much all the staff came but maybe 4 teachers who were already heading out of town for the holidays. So we had a great turnout. We had the party from 4-6:30 and I was afraid we would not have enough food. Well we have a ton of food leftover. Which is perfectly fine because I have some of my family coming over tomorrow to celebrate Christmas.
Jan, this post is for you since you wanted to see pictures! The staff was all very appreciative of us welcoming them into our home and hosting the party. We think everyone had a great time!

The dessert table. We had cookies, cheesecake bites, candy that I made, trailmix, M&M's, Rolo's and candy canes.


Part of the drink station, we put bottled water in our sink on ice. It worked out great!

Some of the appetizers. We had shrimp cocktail, sandwich pinwheels, cream cheese and pepper jelly, crackers, cheese and deer & beef sausage, and veggies, oh and a cheeseball!

Here we had fruit and dip, lil smokies in the crock pot and chips to go with the taco dip you will see below!

Taco dip on stove

I had to take a pic of these cute little plates. I got them at Covered Bridge Festival this year for $1 a pack. I thought they were so cute for the party!

And we didn't have anything fancy for the beer but a cooler:) We did move the koozie cups to a glass bowl rather than keep them in the plastic bag:) We need to find something a little bit fancier if we are gonna host social gatherings as such!

And even though the party was for Jeremy's staff, we received a ton of gifts from the staff members. We got two boxes of chocolate from the chocolate store in town, a Tastefully simple gift pack, a Baby Gap gift card, a cute little dish with popcorn in it, 4 bottles of wine, a cute snowman welcome sign and some cute ornaments.
Below, I had to post the cutest thing Jeremy got from a student at school. She made him a card and I thought it was so funny!

By the end of the night, our dogs were pooped! Lucie greeted everyone who came in the door by shaking her little bootie! And I think she even got some licks off of a few plates!

We have a party to attend with some of our Urbana friends tonight. We are looking forward to seeing everyone as we have not seen many of them in quite a while.

Tomorrow we have family coming over to celebrate Christmas. Looking forward to it!