Christmas with our Supper Club

We celebrated Christmas with our Supper Club last week. It was the McCarty's turn to host, and they treated us with prime rib and Tara's delicious twice baked potatoes. For the third year in a row, the girls (the Mamas) and the children have done Secret Santa gift exchanges. I look forward to giving and receiving these gifts each year! It is fun to buy a gift for someone when you know that person will love it -- and we all know each other so well that the gift buying is fun and easy! I was especially excited this year, because Mason and Roper drew the names of these two:



I love buying gifts for little girls and as the mother of two boys I don't get to do it very often. My favorite thing to buy for a little girl is a new dress or cute outfit, but Christmas is for toys...and I knew immediately what I was going to get for these girls. My little cousins, Caroline & Ruthanna, love their bitty babies and I know that Ruth Ann and Betsy will love their new baby dolls as well!



We wanted to get a picture of all the children in the precious shirts that Tara made for them. Tara did a great job on these -- they are so cute. She has all sorts of cute appliques -- you can get in touch with her via her blog if you are interested in purchasing some. I'm still learning to use my camera...I guess I need to pull out the instruction manual because it always focuses on whatever is in the foreground...which, in this case, was Mason.



It would have been really cute if all the other children were in focus. I stole this picture from Tara's blog...you can actually see all the faces in this one.



After our feast, Jay started hovering around the presents. He couldn't wait to open them!



Mason got a horse from Jay, which Ruth Ann helped him open...he loves it...



Me and the girls. I'm so happy to have these ladies in my life!