Family Christmas Party

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20th - 2008

Today was another busy day.  This morning Sheri and I went to Grandmothers to wrap presents.  We do this every year.  It's nice to have some time to wrap without the kids being there.  And, Grandmother makes the best bows and helps us wrap so our presents look awesome.

Then,  Joe and I went shopping.  We were looking for some tacky Christmas items.  The adult family Christmas dinner was tonight (another Christmas tradition - yeah, we have a lot of Christmas traditions).  Usually we do a nice dinner and then we all share a spiritual thought or a story or song of some kind.  This year we decided to fun it up a bit.  We added the tackiest Christmas outfit contest, and a white elephant game.  Some people were good sports and decided to dress up.  Others did not.  Here we are in all our Christmas glory:

Brian won for tackiest outfit.  How could he not?  The picture above didn't capture the full effect.  You need to see it with the socks:
What most of you failed to see is that he came as a Christmas tree.  At the top of the tree is the beautiful Christmas star.  The green sweater is the tree part.  It is covered in lights and ornaments.  And then, we have the tree skirt.  Isn't he a good sport?

Joe  contributed most of the ideas for this outfit.  He was very creative and also very sad that he didn't get to dress up.  He can't wait until he is old enough to come to the party.