Holiday Party 2011

Not many of the 'younger crowd' attend Derek's holiday party for work and mine is located about 4 states away so we decided to host our own this year! We had about 22 people in the house last Saturday including a few kids for some yummy drinks and appetizers. Drew enjoyed the attention for a while before hitting the hay and miraculously sleeping through all the noise.

In the spirit of being festive, I tried to stick to foods in red and green colors and made EVERYTHING. (....Well, except for the M&Ms and candy canes). My mother's banana bread had to make an appearance of course, I enjoyed making a bite-sized version of my catfish cakes and the prosciutto wrapped asparagus with boursin cheese were delicious. The item that disappeared the quickest, however were my white chocolate covered red velvet cake pops (lower right corner in the collage below).

And for the kids? Chicken nuggets, popcorn and a children's movie of course.

We had a couple 'no shows' and I probably went a bit overboard on the amount of food so we ended up having enough leftovers to feed a small city. Seeing as how we're watching our weight, Derek's work and Drew's daycare both received a huge platter of food on Monday morning! I couldn't part with the banana bread though so we'll be munching on that for a few weeks.