Last Thursday we hosted Ricardo's work team for a Christmas dinner.  We had 15 guests and it was a great time.  Last year I cooked the meal, but this year Ricardo was very gracious in insisting to have it catered to relieve me of that stress.  We had a "nice white elephant" gift exchange which was a lot of fun.  The kids stayed up for the whole party and were such a delight.  Nobody could believe how well behaved they were.  They were just so thrilled to be there that they didn't really have temptation to do anything else but sit on the couch and listen to all the conversations.  So cute!