Monday, December 31, 2007

PseudoChristmas

PseudoChristmas - Turkey dinner potluck-style with your family of friends, (somewhere between 20 and 45 people). Often accomanied by power outage or flood.

I was looking today at the history of our PseudoChristmas. It was originally started in 2002 by Kristy, Beth and Cara. The 2002 event took place at the Party House on University Ave with 22 attendees and included a secret santa gift exchange. PseudoChristmas was declared a success.

2003 - 35 of us packed into the Party House. So many things were cooking at once that they fried a fuse which took out both ovens and the furnace. This was also the year of the Hamwrap Chorus.

2004 - at Rachel's church was much more subdued. There were some hard feelings over the event and many of us were sick (expected 33 but less attended). The traditional power outage in the turkey-cooking home was right on schedule. Doug made Ham Wraps. Never again.

2005 - at Kristy's church with an even more expanded guest list. In keeping with our disaster theme, there was a flood. We topped out in the neighbourhood of 43 guests that year.

2006 - out at Amanda's parent's place for both PseudoChristmas an New Year's with a packed house (about 37 for dinner and more later on).

2007 - we ramped it back and scaled it down; there were 22 at the first PseudoChristmas and 22 tonight, although 6 more swung by later on. For the first time in several years we all crammed in at one long straight table at Kristy's place.

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Paul was on turkey carving duty.

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Half of the table.

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Little Tara was the primary entertainment for the evening.

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She had all of the boys wrapped around her little finger.

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We had Snoopy Snowcones for desert. This was a bad plan and will not become a tradition.

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Chris arrived as a surprise with kids in tow.

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Julia grinning at her goofy sister.

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I don't think Elena held still for more than 4 seconds the entire time she was there.

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Jacob the over-achiever is already finger walking.

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The boys spent much of the night in the kitchen, for some reason.

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