a night out

Here we are, all dolled up for the evening Christmas party. Julia was sad to not join the festivities (especially since she helped us decorate the hall for the party on monday night. putting out the plates, napkins, and tableclothes with me) but when Carla came to hang out with her for the night, she was hardly aware of our departure....as per usual now-a-days. haha. man does she ever love to play with people.
Dave looks a little serious here, but don't worry, he wasn't glaring at anyone in particular. haha.

So what was the occassion?? it was our Egroups Christmas party at church. (named 'Egroups' by our assistant pastor that likes Ipods and Email and other modern day 'E' 'I' words...he thought it fit well with our new lingo. haha)
Dave dropped me off early so i could practise on the piano at church, and for a few songs i thought i was playing the wrong notes.....until i realized it was only due to the IN tuneness of the church piano compared to our own!!! hahaha. that was shocking....i have a poor ear, so our piano at home sounds JUST fine when you are listening to it alone....but in comparisson...yeah, not so tuned. oh well.

The piano sounded just lovely. i love hearing a smooth, clear note ... this piano was just that. smooth. aaaaah. feels good to play on a nice instrument. (not that our piano at home is NOT a good instrument...it just needs some TLC)

After the fingers stopped shaking i played through my songs as all the folks entered the party, and i had quite a delightful time doing so. Then we ate, listened to a Christmas Story, watched a skit, sang carols, ate, ate, ate, and laughed our heads off at one of the groups....hahaha. Reason?? because it was Karli's group, and they are all NUTS. we each had to introduce our group, and then sing the first line of a carol that we thought represented our group. (for our group it was "Grandma got run over by a reindeer" because of all the surgeries and ailments our group has had in the last few months.) Anyway, Karli and her group said their song was the Nutcracker Sweets, otherwise known as The waltz of the Flowers. lovely song. NO WORDS though. haaha. and then their leader did ballet to it as they hummed the tune!!! it was AWESOME.

Anyway. I got to wear my dress from Cynthia's wedding again, and that was fun. i love dressing up! :)

lovely evening out. all rosy, cozy, and festive.

love from sue.