We had a Christmas in July (in August) party today!
The idea originally came when, back in early April as we were taking the cover off the pool, my kid randomly started singing Wham's Last Christmas.
Things have been really difficult in our family this summer so we didn't plan as much as we'd have liked and didn't do all the ideas, but it was still fun!
I was able to cut some cedar trees so we had Christmas trees, I drug the Christmas decorations out of the attic, baked the traditional red velvet cake with green frosting along with key lime pie (was strange and fun listening to baseball on the radio while doing Christmas baking!) made a Jamaican rum punch and pina colada at the request of my kid- (adults had to add their own rum).
Asked guests to bring either summer-fied Christmas treats or Christmas-fied summer treats, and my mom wrapped up a bunch of pool toys to put under the tree so the kids could open the presents to play with in the pool.
It was a great time!
My favorite Christmas movie is Christmas Vacation, which inspired my wife and I's swim outfit choices for today.
We took down most of the decorations after the party, but I did decide to leave the lights along the fence up.
The idea originally came when, back in early April as we were taking the cover off the pool, my kid randomly started singing Wham's Last Christmas.
Things have been really difficult in our family this summer so we didn't plan as much as we'd have liked and didn't do all the ideas, but it was still fun!
I was able to cut some cedar trees so we had Christmas trees, I drug the Christmas decorations out of the attic, baked the traditional red velvet cake with green frosting along with key lime pie (was strange and fun listening to baseball on the radio while doing Christmas baking!) made a Jamaican rum punch and pina colada at the request of my kid- (adults had to add their own rum).
Asked guests to bring either summer-fied Christmas treats or Christmas-fied summer treats, and my mom wrapped up a bunch of pool toys to put under the tree so the kids could open the presents to play with in the pool.
It was a great time!
My favorite Christmas movie is Christmas Vacation, which inspired my wife and I's swim outfit choices for today.
We took down most of the decorations after the party, but I did decide to leave the lights along the fence up.
for my daughter because her birthday is in January. Both my kids have winter birthdays & are always jealous of their friends with “good weather birthdays”. 
