Kickin off the Season !

My Thursday club had the first party to kick off the Holidays last night . We met at Olive Garden and had a wonderful dinner....ahhh food I didn't prepare !!!! Then we went to Mindy's new house to visit some more and have dessert and exchange our little "goodies" that we do each year. We did a "forgo" on the gifts this year and that was a help to all of us but we all did admit we missed doing it so who knows what next year will bring !

Here is l-r .... Mindy, Me, Kathy, Ann, Judy and Cindy !

Yea for Thursday club for hanging together for about 28 years ! This is the group that started out meeting at our houses on thursday mornings after kids were off to school the babies would play and we'd solve all the problems of the world, do some crafts ( Judy would fold socks) and we'd enjoy lunch and head home for kids to be out of school. So now that we've all gone back to work we are lucky to meet up for dinner for each birthday and holidays but it's fun to know we can stay in touch. So we have Thursday club on tuesday or whenever it works ! This group has seen some major life changes this last year but it's nice to know we can still enjoy each other and celebrate changes or hold each other up if needed !

Cindy made this wonderful pumpkin cheese cake and I forgot to take a picture of it, it was great ! Judy brought us all some hot cidar and Mindy had these cute little favors on her table. So I took pictures so you all can see her great idea ! She hit the dollar store and found these cute holiday glasses, there is a candle in there so it's a candle holder when the goodies are removed.Here is a close up of this cute little cover on the chocolate, she used her cricut to cut out the cute round shape and stapled it all with a red staple !Here is a picture of all the goodies we exchanged this year, my kids used to love me coming home after the thursday club christmas party knowing there were treats to enjoy ! I'm putting the big tin of cookies in the freezer to save for our family gatherings so yep you guys I'm saving them for you !