The Dorsey's: 6th Annual Tacky Sweater Christmas Party

Every year we get together with our friends for our annual tacky sweater Christmas party. We raid our mom's closets or the thrift store and try to wear the tackiest Christmas attire that we can find. It is always so much fun seeing who is dressed the tackiest and it's fun getting together with everybody. This is one of the few parties that we can get all of our friends together. This year was a little different. We normally do our party mid-December but one of our friends was getting married on the 14th so we had to do it a week earlier. It didn't seem like a bad idea, until Auburn surprised everybody and had an amazing season that sent them to the SEC championship game, which just so happened to be playing the afternoon of our party. Several of our friends went to the game so it didn't feel like we had as many people this year as in years past. Steven and Jessica came over early to watch the game. We enjoyed being able to watch it with friends. It was a amazing game, and we won!!! Our only hope to go to the BCS championship game was for Ohio State to lose their game that night. Usually during our parties we are playing a Christmas movie or Christmas music on TV, this year, we watched the Ohio State game and prayed that they lost. They did, and we are going to the championship game!!! It was so exciting to share that moment with our Auburn (and Bama) friends! It was even more reason to celebrate and have a good time with our friends.

Of course we had our photo booth again this year. We try to make it tacky too. Before the party, me and Bryson went to the Dollar Tree to choose some paper. He chose funny little elves, gold garland, and what he called a football Santa to decorate the photo booth with.

We always take a picture of the food spread but for some reason we didn't this year. There was a ton of yummy food that everybody brought to share. We did get a picture of the yummy cupcakes.

Every year we play dirty Santa. This year we didn't have a theme for the gift, we just set a limit of $20. Without it being said, the theme still ended up being board games and alcohol.

Me and Michele ready to play dirty Santa.

The whole group with our gifts.

Me with our preggo friends Joanna and Jessica.

We had so much fun spending the holidays with our friends. As we all are growing older and having kids of our own, it is gettting harder to get everybody together. I'm hoping this is one tradition that will last a long time!