{"id":175,"date":"2006-12-17T22:14:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-17T22:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/17\/saturday-night-christmas-parties\/"},"modified":"2006-12-17T22:14:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-17T22:14:00","slug":"saturday-night-christmas-parties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/17\/saturday-night-christmas-parties\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night Christmas Parties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love Christmas parties. You get all dolled up and see all your friends and everyone gets along swimmingly, even if it&#8217;s been ages since you&#8217;ve last seen them.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, we had two parties to go to. Will and <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\">Ele<\/span>, my <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\">newfound<\/span> friends, invited us to their annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.willdaddy.net\/blog\/?p=993\">Chili and Beer party<\/a>. Meridith and Marty also hosted their first ever party in their house. Dave got inspired and made cookies for us at the last minute, and I took about 30 minutes to make my spectacular <a href=\"http:\/\/allrecipes.com\/Recipe\/Holiday-Guacamole\/Detail.aspx\">Holiday Guacamole<\/a> for <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\">Meri&#8217;s<\/span> party.<br \/>Saturday we went first to Will and <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\">Ele&#8217;s<\/span>. I was a little nervous because I knew we&#8217;d be meeting a ton of new people, but everyone was very nice and I was so glad we went. Will and <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\">Ele<\/span> are so nice, great hosts and they seem like a lot of fun. The only weird part was what to say when people asked &#8220;So, how do you know <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\">Ele<\/span>?&#8221; Ah well. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Around 10 we headed over to <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\">Meri&#8217;s<\/span>. Karen, Kerri, Kelli, Mark, Beanie and some other people were there. Alissa and Chris showed up as well. They are so cute together. We celebrated Kelli&#8217;s graduation from college &#8211; she graduated on Saturday from <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\">NCCU<\/span>. I don&#8217;t remember exactly what her degree is in, but she&#8217;s going to be teaching high school kids! Crazy stuff. Kerri got some people involved in a funny drinking game called <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flip_cup\">Flip Cup<\/a> &#8211; it was really entertaining to watch. Then we played The Name Game. It&#8217;s very simple. I say a name, like &#8220;John Hancock.&#8221; You then have to say a name where the first letter of the first name starts with H. So you say &#8220;Hannibal <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\">Lecter<\/span>.&#8221; The next person has to use L in the first letter of the first name. Sounds easy, right? It&#8217;s hilariously difficult. Plus, you&#8217;re supposed to go very quickly so if you sit there with your mouth agape trying desperately to figure out a name, <em>any name<\/em>, that starts with the letter L, the group will just tell you that your time is up and jump to the next person. It was really funny and I was glad I&#8217;d switched out my glass of wine for a cup of water at that point <span class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\">because<\/span> I kinda sucked at it.<\/p>\n<p>All in all, a great night with new friends and old!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love Christmas parties. You get all dolled up and see all your friends and everyone gets along swimmingly, even if it&#8217;s been ages since you&#8217;ve last seen them. On Saturday, we had two parties to go to. Will and Ele, my newfound friends, invited us to their annual Chili and Beer party. 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