Festive Favorite Things Party

Tis the season for parties!

My good friend Brittany and I threw a favorite things party with a holiday twist... 

In case you aren't familiar with "favorite things" parties, here's my first party I threw & I explained what they are. 

So for our party, we added a Christmassy flair to all of the details and it was perfect! I totally want to do this every year now!

I made the invites with my go-to favorite app, Rhonna Designs. 

I whited out my address & our numbers and it somehow made my image really grainy. Again. 😣 Ugh whatever! We decided to mail out the invites instead of doing a FB or email invite -- Kinko's was the cheapest option for printing off the invites, then we just dropped them in the mail. Between the two of us, the invites were less than $15. 

Anyway, the night of the party, Brittany came over early and helped do the final prep. She made a SUPER yummy chicken enchillada soup/stew/chili (I can't decide what to call it... Porridge? Hahaha!) and I made my fave green salad (strawberries, goat cheese, pecans, & strawberry vinaigrette dressing) & some festive cake pops. I have an addiction to cake pops, seriously! 🙈

We stuck with the red & green theme, getting matchy matchy plates, cups, & straws. Thank you Target for all your cuteness! 

Micah crashed the dinner before leaving with Olive to do some Christmas secrets. 

The sweets and treats were all set on the desk in my kitchen and were sooo sugary sweet & tempting!

When people arrived we had them write their names on slips of paper (three times) and drop them into a bowl. That's for later, for the gift exchange. They also picked up the quizzes and filled them out after we ate. 

Ps I also made the quiz on the same app

Again blurry and lame. Stupid internet. 

So we ate (a lot!) & just chatted. We had chips & queso, salsa, and spinach dip to munch on, plus rolls for the soup/stew/chili/porridge 😝 and lots of soda options. Dr. Pepper for me, of course. 

About an hour after everyone arrived & ate, we went into my family room and went over the quiz answers. 

Some people's answers were hilarious! Especially about finding out about Santa.. Totally killed me! I learned when I was young ish and snooping for gifts (which I still do.. Poor Micah) with my bro and we found gifts that later came from Santa, with my mom's handwriting. Talk about heartbreaking! And some had to be told when they were older, as in middle school aged.. No names haha but I feel for ya fellow naive friends! 

As we ran through the questions, Olive got back with Micah so she and my friend Lindsey's baby Bailey played together, drank milk, and took some selfies. 

Hey everyone, come see how good we look! 

The most unique Christmas person was a tie between Misty & Maegan and after a quick Christmas trivia hunt for a tie breaker, we gave up and went with the "rock paper scissors" method and Maegan ended up winning the prize: a mistletoe stamped burlap table runner I made & a cute drink set filled with chocolate. Omm nom nom!

We did the gift swap next and we each came away with some seriously fun goodies! To name a few gifts, they were candles, books, bubble bath sets, cozy socks, gift cards, lotions & perfumes, inspirational cards & mints, etc. 

It was SO great to get together with such an amazing group of girls! We stuffed our faces, exchanged some amazing gifts, and got to play catch up and chat a ton. 

If you are looking for a fun and inexpensive way to throw a holiday party, I highly recommend doing a festive favorite things party. Amazing combo of my favorite things -- no pun intended! 😜

xoxo

Mandi