When I was little, my mom's annual Christmas party was one of the highlights of the Christmas season. All of my cousins came over, we made homemade root beer and we even got to have a meat tray! Not just any meat tray, a meat tray from R&A Market in Helper, which I still say makes the best salami and capicola in the world (speaking of which, add that to my list of food I am going to have to have while in Utah). Santa even made an appearance now and then.
I scanned these old photos in a while ago and decided to share them. The pictures below have to have been from around 1983 I would guess.


This picture is from a few years later--my cousin Ryan is on the left, my brother Duane is in the middle and my cousin Jason is on the right. I'm not sure what they're doing, but it looks like they're shooting dice. I don't remember gambling going on at the parties, but you never know.

4 comments:
Thanks for sharing these cute pics! Aunt Ros's parties were the best! Funny you would remember the meat tray...we always thought Santa or the pinata was the draw for the kids! Hope we get a chance to see you when we all are in Utah!
I know you sent me these, but I am glad you posted them. I miss your Mom's parties. The thing I remember most was that we each got an ornament from Hallmark and I thought we were pretty high class kids with those !
Oh the good old days it seems just like yesterday we were all so innocent what I wouldn't give for one more day of being a kid and re-living those wonderfull times.
Wow! These are soo cool! Thanks for sharing. We had such good times.
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