Festivus 2006

My brother Chris is the king of throwing parties for no reason other than he's got a new costume or a theme and needs a party to go with it. So a few years ago, when his freezer got unplugged and he was left with a bunch of thawed-out meat, he chose to go with the cup half full approach and started the Seinfeld-esque tradition of a Festivus party. The only rules are that anything you bring to eat has to have meat in it. He sends out a "Festivus letter" which is a parody on the traditional Christmas letter, and challenges us that if our Christmas starts to look too much like Festivus (made up, foolish, etc.) we might want to re-think things.



Here's the spread of food, most for eating, some for fun (the vienna sausage plate ... yikes!)


Also enjoyed the friends who were creative enough to come up with the idea of meat jewelry - maybe that will be a new tradition!


And these two cute kids ... in matching shirts! We (Christa and I) convinced J that it was part of the "deal" that everyone had to wear matching shirts, since he is violently opposed to matching in any way shape or form, and didn't tell him it was a joke on him until we were half-way to Lawrence. VERY FUNNY!