Christmas Chocolate

My school semester is officially over, which means I only have one left.  I already have a job when I graduate.  My six-week long vacation just started, and Christmas is in two weeks.  Life is pretty good right now!  At Church we had our Christmas activity.  The theme was "Journey Back to Bethlehem."  The gym was transformed into the Bethlehem Market, and upon entering, we gave some canned food as our tax.  We were given some fake money and could spend it around the market on food.  Then we watched a reenactment of the Nativity.  Emmy loved watching all the kids dressed as angels.  The same night we headed to mid-town to my MHA holiday party.  Emmy was pretty popular there, as well.

The next night we had another party to go to.  It was an ugly Christmas sweater party at our friends', the Houston's house.  We found some pretty good sweaters at Goodwill.  Mine was actually a woman's sweater, but it worked.  We ended up getting a babysitter for Emmy.  She was not happy about it!

She is actually on the floor crying because Mommy was upstairs getting ready, and she wasn't allowed to be up there, too.  At one point, I also needed to finish getting ready, so I ran upstairs and left Emmy to play with her toys.  Literally less than five minutes later, we came down to find this:

Look at the guilt in her eyes.  Emmy somehow found a Hershey's kiss, unwrapped it, and got it all over her face, the couch, and the carpet.  I have no idea how one kiss could produce so much chocolate smear.  We were already late, but we couldn't pass up the photo opportunity.  She keeps us laughing with her antics.  It was her first chocolate of the Christmas season, and was clearly eaten with whimsical child-like abandon.

We had a great time at the party.  We played some fun games, ate some good food, exchanged white elephant gifts (selfie sticks were popular) and Cory even won the ugly sweater contest.  Ironically, you cannot see her sweater in the only picture we took (with the selfie stick).  You can see my woman's sweater, however.  Thanks to the Houstons for hosting all of us!