Dirty Santa Party

Weekend update from the Mayfield's!

I had the day off on Friday (which I am always excited about)! I began my day doing a little cleaning, wrapping gifts, watching Hallmark Christmas movies and then like everyone else I saw the horrific news from Newtown.  I was glued to the tv for the rest of the afternoon with a broken heart for those families that lost so much. It is truly unimaginable what those families and students are going through.  My prayer continually has been that this would wake up our nation to turn back to the only ONE that can heal this world (gun control, help for the mentally ill, more security in our schools won't fix our nation's problems - only HE can).  Our prayers have been and will continue to be with them in the days ahead.  

I was off work Friday due to our Dirty Santa Party that we were hosting.  Hopefully we can make this a yearly tradition because we had such a fun time.    

   

Lots of gifts piled up ready to be had!   

And lots of good food!  Our friend Liz made this cookie cake - so cute!

Our house was packed and we loved it!

Time to play!

Russ was hoping he wouldn't get stuck with the purple scarf!

We moved all of our furniture around to accommodate our very full house!

 

Russ was thankful he did not end up with the purple scarf!

One of the more popular gifts - mustaches :)

Michael ended up with the Dirty Santa - thankfully it was the best gift - a Best Buy card!

We have some of the best friends around!  We are so thankful for them.  As our friend, Karen, said on her Facebook status after the party...

So thankful to have such a great group of friends. Thankful to be able to sit around and talk about the good and bad, funny and sad and know that we couldn't imagine going through any of it without Jesus. Blessed with so much more than I deserve. Fun night!

It really was a fun night!