Another annual Bucket Christmas Party

Love these girls. My good buddies from RME. Never in my life have I laughed as hard as I do when I'm with them. They are so fun.

This is my oldest Bucket friend....okay, not oldest, oldest...just the one I've known the longest. She and I started work at Clifton Elementary in 1994 and then moved to RME when it was built. Pam was opening our bottle of French champagne (a gift from Yeasta Hunny...loooong story, don't ask).




It began to bubble over so she stuck her finger in it! Thank God, she's Niles...clean and neat!


Kim, a.k.a. Jugs, I met at RME and she makes for tons of laughter and fun! She likes to pose like this when I try to take her picture, because she's a nut that way!


These aren't the best pictures technically...I forgot the flash, darn it!


Me, Jugs and Yeasta...Yeasta is the music teacher at RME. She's amazing.


I think this is a beautiful picture of Ruby, aka Yeasta.


Me, Pam (Niles) and Jugs.


Captain (aka Sue) finally got there... and now we could eat!!! Captain and I were pregnant at the same time...Her wee one, Ben, is 6 months older than BayLea.

We had overnight sausage casserole and cranberry and white chocolate scones from me, breakfast strata from Captain, homemade raviolis from Jugs, coffee cake and fudge from Niles, and champagne from France from Yeasta. Tasty yummy.


A group photos...I'm waiting for a picture of the group from Jugs to see if it's better than this one.

We missed our Baby Bucket...I sure hope the Nuggets won, Baby! Hopefully you can come next year...you've missed two years now, girlfriend!

The Buckets Ornament Exchange

When I worked at Rocky Mountain, a group of us got together every month. I've never had so much fun. We would laugh, and giggle, and talk about everything under the sun. We called ourselves the Pluckin' Buckets. One of our members was our music teacher, and two of the other girls were taking music lessons (guitar and banjo). So we decided we should have a band. My instrument was the ashtrays (don't ask!). So each month we had 'band practice' which consisted of going to a bar, having a couple drinks, and talking. We did have song titles of future releases, and we took minutes on napkins of everything we discussed! (Captain, do you still have them?) It was soooooo much fun. I know it sounds really immature, but man, it was great. We also had nicknames. Jugs, Captain Nips, Niles, Yeasta, Baby, and MaDamn LePottymouth.

Anyway, we've all moved on to different schools now, but still at Christmas we get together for our annual Christmas Tree Ornament Exchange and Breakfast. Two of our members weren't able to join us this time, and we missed them very much!

This is Captain and Niles getting their morning drink prepared! Tequila Sunrises.

And then we moved on to Mimosas. (Okay, this sounds really bad, but no one had more than two drinks).

We drew numbers for the ornament exchange. Jugs here, our hostess, had number one. I think she cheated!

The presents to choose from.

We also decided that we would write one of those surveys that go around on e-mail, but this one would be Bucket-Style questions. You know that some were probably NOT appropriate to send aorund to strangers!

My ornament was CUTE CUTE! (see below). It was from Captain Nips, there in the background!

There it is.

And everyone else's ornaments.

And here's our mini-group. Curry (Baby Bucket) and Yeasta weren't there. I'm not sure why Yeasta didn't come, but Baby is now a principal (we're soooo proud) and she had something going on this morning at school. We have other group pictures from some of our earlier band practices...I'll have to hunt those down and post them later!

I love these gals. Thanks for a great morning!