Thank You!
We just wanted to take a moment to express our deepest gratitude to each and every one of you who participated in our HO HO HOlidays celebration this year! 🎄✨
Your presence, warmth, kindness, laughter, and festive spirit truly filled our hearts with joy and made this holiday season extra special to us and we hope to you as well!
The joy, surprise, and excitement of the White Elephant gift exchange brought so much laughter and fun to all, making the celebration even more memorable. The love we share makes this season so much brighter, and we feel truly blessed to be surrounded by such incredible people.
Thank you for your generosity, love, and all the little (and big) things that made our Christmas celebration shine. It’s the people like you that make the holidays so bright, and we feel incredibly blessed to share this time with such amazing family and friends.
Wishing you all continued joy, warmth, and blessings as we head into the new year!
With love and gratitude,
Jason & Taylor
The Blessed Time of Year
The holiday season is a time for warmth, laughter, and coming together with good company. We’d love for you to join us for a joyful Christmas Dinner at Conejo Gardens, where we’ll celebrate the season, share a delicious meal, and enjoy each other’s company.To make the evening even more fun, we’ll be playing a White Elephant Gift Exchange, filled with surprises, laughter, and the spirit of giving that makes Christmas so special.
Come celebrate with us, reconnect with friends, and create new memories as we close out the year together. We can’t wait to see you there! 🎄🎁✨
Jason & Taylor
We Gather In
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About The Event
When
Saturday
December 12, 2026
4pm - 8pm
May be subject to change/cancellation
Where
Conejo Gardens
10045 Conejo Pl
Santee, CA 92071
Click image above for directions
Food Items
Honey Baked Ham
Field Roast Hazelnut & Cranberry Roast 🅥
Garlic Herb Mashed Potatoes 🅥
Sautéed Carrots & Broccoli 🅥
Dinner Rolls 🅥
🅥 = Vegan
Limited Bar
Christmas Punch
Vodka, Gin, Rum & Whiskey
Red and White Wines
bottled water
The Following Guests have committed to bring the following items
(updated 12/12/2025 - 4:17pm)
Side Dishes
Jason - Garlic Herbed Mashed Potatoes
Taylor - Dinner Rolls
Sheri - Swiss Green Beans casserole and Broccoli salad
Hannah - TBD!
Rhonda - Parmesan Roasted Cauliflower
Dante - TBD!
Chris - TBD!
Carlos - Root vegetable medley
Kelly - Homemade Mac & Cheese
Desserts
Chuck - Buttercake
Flavio - Tiramisu
Jade - Dark Chocolate Truffles
BIG JEFF - Blackberry Cobbler
Angel - Rhubarb/Apple Pie
Jen - Something vegan and Christmas!
Courtney & Steven - Cookies
Allison - Cookies
Arjun - Muffins
Matt - Cookies
Jacob - Not sure yet! Probably cookies?
Andrea - Vegan Cookies
Beverage Items
Kate - Water - J/K Wine!!!
Maureen - Wine
Kevin - Wine
Al - Wine
Bre - Glog
🎁 White Elephant Gift Exchange 🎁
Brace yourselves… it’s time for the annual holiday tradition where logic goes out the window and questionable gift choices shine! Bring a wrapped gift—anything from “surprisingly useful” to “what-on-earth-is-this-and-why-does-it-exist?”
Once the game begins, it’s every elf for themselves. You’ll witness dramatic gift snatching, suspicious alliances, and at least one person pretending they totally wanted that glow-in-the-dark garden flamingo.
Will you end the night with a treasured keepsake? A bizarre conversation starter? A rubber chicken wearing a tiny sweater? Only the White Elephant knows.
Prepare for laughter, light chaos, and the emotional rollercoaster of watching your favorite gift get stolen by someone you thought you trusted. 🎄😂✨
Bring A Gift
Each guest that wishes to participate should bring one wrapped gift with a value of no more than $25.00 to contribute to common gift pile. Only guests bringing a gift can participate in the White Elephant Gift Exchange.
Couples can play solo or as a couple. If playing solo, each person needs to bring a gift.
Draw A Number
Participants will draw numbered coins from Santa Claus's bag to determine the order they will pick or steal gifts. Smallest number will go first.
Gather Around
Participants should sit in a circle or line where they can see the common gift pile. To make things easier, everyone should sit in the order in which they will take their turns.
The First Person
Participant #1 chooses a gift from the common gift pile and opens it in front of everyone.
Subsequent Guests
Next participant can either choose a new wrapped gift or "steal" the gift from any previous participant.
The participant who had their gift stolen can then choose a new gift or steal from another participant.
The game continues in numerical order, with each participant having the option to open a new gift or steal an opened one.
Ending Of Game
After all participants have played, participant #1 will have the option to swap their opened gift at the very end.
All gifts can only be stolen once.
Donate to Spread Smiles
Help Others to Celebrate Christmas
We have partnered with Big Mike of San Diego to raise funds for Casa de Luz San Diego, which is a sister organization of Casa de Luz TJ, a collective house open to LBGTQ+ refugees who left their home country in search of a better life. Casa de Luz SD raises money for Casa de Luz TJ so they can offer a safe haven for people who lived in fear of persecution because of their sexual orientation or gender identification. Ham and Vegan Roast Provided By
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Please consider attending one of our other events,
our CineArts Festival from May to October,
our Pride BBQ Festival! in June or
our Friendsgiving Feast in November!
