My friend Beth and I for the second year planned a lovely holiday party that is now becoming quite the Christmas Party trend, The Ugly Christmas Sweater Party. We love it, because you get to dress up and look like a complete idiot and be proud of it, because you know there is prize if you look your "best." Now we have expanded out Christmas Sweater Party to really just include anything that is corny Christmas wear. I set an example this year of wearing not only a sweater, but an ugly Christmas dress.

The thing I love the most about this party is that my husband, John, really gets into it. He likes to go all out. So to match my lovely looking dress, he likes to pull out the woman's Christmas sweater with a big teddy bear on it, some jingle bells and bows and one huge Christmas tree. And sense this is a classy event, he even pulls out the dress slacks to make sure every one takes him seriously because is serious on this night. The best thing about that night though, was that we went to Wal-Mart dressed like this and not one person took a second look at us. We fit right in. I even got a compliment.

And here are some other participants in this fine Holiday party:

