Partay!!

Last night we had some couples over for a little shindig. It was so fun! We had invited about 16 people (8 couples), knowing that a lot of people would be going out of town for the 3-day weekend, and we had 8 people planning on coming. Then at the last minute, one couple called to cancel since their little boy was sick. So we were down to 6 people coming, 8 total with us. I was a little worried that it would be lame because of our smaller numbers, but it was so fun! We had such a great time eating and playing games and laughing and getting to know everyone better. I made some yummy appetizers and then had people bring drinks, veggies, and dessert (which was amazing - oreo truffles that were to-die-for! I will definitely be looking for an excuse to make these in the very near future).

Anyway, so it was really fun. We played "Catch Phrase", thanks to my Aunt Cassie who lent me the game, and we had a few other games lined up to play after, but we ended up just chatting instead. It's so fun to get together with other people in our same age group and situation. They're all in our ward (along with the other people we invited) and have all been married around 3-5 years. One couple has a boy 9 months older than Eli and another couple is expecting their first this summer. I was so impressed with the intelligent, well-educated group of people we had. We both agreed that we liked everyone more after getting to know them better (which is of course a good thing) and that we should do things like this more often. Our boisterous laughter only woke up Eli once (oops), but luckily he went back to sleep pretty easily.

So that was a great start to our 3-day weekend. We don't really have any specific plans for the rest of the weekend aside from a lot of church duties tomorrow. It seems like we've had a really busy week with random things, so it will be nice to have Monday off to relax together. We hope you all have a great weekend and a Happy Valentine's Day!