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Capturing Christmas Part 6: Time with friends.

A major sign that you are getting old? Holidays don't revolve around going out every night with the "high school" group. In our case, Mikey and I both grew up in the same district, different schools...but we have lots of the same friends and a lot of us have always hung out in one big group. For years after high school...holidays meant seeing friends that you don't see that often, going out to the tipsy toad in Chapin (my hometown's one bar...okay, it has more than that now, but really the only decent one that isn't a restaurant too), etc. You get my point.

Well, now that we are old as the hills and have a little babe at home...we obviously don't go out as much anymore. But, not everyone else does either...I think there were two nights this holiday season that would have been fun. Oh well...such is life. Anyways, we missed out on the big party some of our friends had because we were in NC...but on Christmas Day night we did get to relax and hang out with some peeps for a bit and it was good times.

My best guy friend and I.  Miss this fella now that he lives in TX.
Our small group on Christmas day night.
Mikey's college best friend and his wife joined in on the fun too...not sure what happened to my shirt here?

Our 8th annual "Get drunk and steal presents" girls night.  Started with my sorority sisters senior year of college and haven't stopped since. LOVE this night.  Over the years our group  has dwindled...we miss our girls who live far away!  My photog bestie set up the background, so cute, right?
So, y'all know how I HATE to miss out on pictures from events, right? Well...Mikey and I hosted a small get together over Christmas this year (it was the third one we've hosted, we took last year off...I was pregnant and NOT in the mood to host/party...I know, sore loser!) and I did not get ONE picture.  AAHHH.  It really makes me so sad.  We didn't have a huge group, but it was still a fun time and I would have LOVED to have gotten some snapshots from the night.  I can't believe I did that.  It really, really makes me sad/annoyed if you can't tell.  Oh well.  Better luck next time.

Christmas re-cap almost finished.  Will be wrapping it up as January comes to a close, ridiculous!  TIME, please SLOW down.

xoxo.

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