River View Medical Christmas Party

We had a great Christmas dinner up at the Ledge restaurant up by the old airport.  It used to be Rocco's.  It was nice to see it open again.  The view is incredible from up there.  It's great to see everyone dressed up too.  We actually look good for a change. 

Here are Amy & Vince and Megin & Shawn.

 Us and Kirsten & Craig.

Kalo didn't want Jana and Julie to feel left out of the couples pictures.  Here's Kalo & Josh.  Believe it or not that is Josh smiling.

I forgot to say that all of these pictures are Kalo's.  None of mine turned out because of  the lighting in the room.   She took all of theses, including this panorama,  with her iphone!  I need one of those!

This was a great one of the view.

We decided to let the Dr.'s open their presents while we waited for the food.  They loved them.

 Megin making the rounds.

The food was amazing.  Here is the salmon and the salad was nice but the Passion Fruit Cheesecake for dessert was FANTASTIC!  It was so sour and tart that my mouth is watering just thinking about it.

The the staff opened their gifts to each other and here I am telling Sue about the apron I made for her out of an old pair of Levis.  Then all the sudden Amy said, "Aren't those the pair I gave you?"  Sure enough they were!  It was hilarious.  She had given me a pair that her son no longer fit in to see if they'd fit one of my boys and they didn't so I recycled them.

Here are George and Norma McCraken.  It was good to have them there.

Here's a picture of all the girls.

Here's Dr. LaRowe and his harem.  There wasn't any room for me because of Kalo's booty and the table that was in the way so I just sat on the table.

The Three Musketeers with and without glasses.

The amazing view.  I love our Christmas parties.  We get to relax and enjoy each other and not have to worry about patients or about being professional.  We can just be ourselves.  We are our own little family.

The next day at work we had our ugly sweater day.  This year Sue won.  She made her own sweater.

What a Motley Crue!

2014 JANDY COOKIE PARTY!!!!

Another great family tradition started right here in Southern Utah with Jan before she was Jandy.  Christmas Cookies!  Every year she makes a BILLION cookies in a MILLION different shapes and whips up THOUSANDS of pounds of frosting in a rainbow of colors for us to frost the worlds best sugar cookie with.  Not only that but she also has HUNDREDS of toppings to put on them to make whatever design your heart so desires.  It's what makes the Christmas spirit bubble up inside you until you can't hold it in anymore and you want to shout MERRY CHRISTMAS to everyone you see. 

Some are a little nicer looking than others but they all taste delicious!

This is my reindeer. He was a gingerbread man turned upside down.  He was yummy.

 Josh was so proud of his creations.  He thought only of his stomach and not of how cute they were.  For example, that star was made entirely out of huge Lemonheads so he could eat them later.

Sisters...Sisters...there were never such...wait I used that on the bowling blog.  I can't help it they're just so dang cute.

 It seems like there are two ways to go when decorating either very creative or very traditional.  Emily is very creative.  She also had a color theme this year.

 Her mother is very traditional.  Her cookies are always gorgeous.

Jan was a little giddy because JoEllen made gingerbread houses for her and Andy so they didn't have to decorate any cookies.  She was making it snow on her roof.

David and Evan were good helpers cleaning up the leftover frosting by squeezing it out of the bags.

After it's all over and put away, there's only one thing left to do...play PUFFY POO!  JoEllen lets them use the leftover marshmallows and see how many they can stuff in their mouths.  Josh usually wins because his mouth is so huge.  I don't remember how many he got.  I think around 28.  It was pretty impressive until he gagged and spit them all out.