Friday, January 9, 2009

ok...finally some Christmas pictures

I am pretty behind on the updates from Christmas!
Christmas was absolutely awesome. We spent Christmas Eve with my side of the family. We had a pajama party Christmas Eve and an awesome white elephant gift exchange (oh boy that was fun), and of course the wonderful tradition of the Nativity skit that all the grand kids are involved in.
Christmas morning was so cute. Emma came walking out and seemed so interested in an unwrapped santa gift. She loved doing the unwrappings, what a cutie!
What a wonderful Christmas.

Let me just start off with our Christmas Eve party during our white elephant gift exchange. It got a little out of hand. There were a pair of fluffy socks that went around that many of us would of liked to get our hands on. Well, if you know the white elephant game, the item can only be taken 3 times and then it's locked in with the last person. Well I had taken some socks from my sister Kim (bottom picture) and I was thinking that I was the 3rd person, therefore those socks were mine. Well I was wrong and Kim snatched those suckers right back from me. It was funny! No, I did NOT intentionally hit her in the head with the socks and pack of gum, but it just so happened to catch her right at the right angle and forehead and took a good nick from her forehead. We were laughing about it for hours. Hilarious! Sorry Kim!!
I had been waiting YEARS to give this as a white elephant gift to that special someone. Well, that special someone was my cute niece Maddie that got the ginormous red bra with bells. I was SO excited to give it away. We were all laughing and having fun with the bra. I think everybody tried it on for size. :)
We found Emma in my sisters living room next to her awesome tree. Emma LOVES Christmas lights, and loved this tree.

The sistas!!We love this tradition of the grand kids performing the Nativity scene. Emma was the donkey. What a cute donkey she was.
The kids with their great Grandma Mills.
Grandma and Grandpa PhairDaddy and Emma

George, Ella, Emma, Gracie, Lucy, Annie, Maddie, Michael
bottom: Drew and Ty

Emma and Lucy in matching Christmas pajamas

Santa came!!!
Emma loved the books she got. Here's Daddy reading her 'runaway bunny' book that came with a little stuffed bunny. So sweet.

She loved doing the unwrapping.

Derek was awesome and got me the 1st season of the classic 'Cosby Show.' I grew up always watching this show. We enjoyed ourselves on Christmas morning watching a few episodes.

4 comments:

The Andersons said...

how fuuuun! your family seems like a blast! i love christmas. and you KNOW this. ahhahahahaha

Anonymous said...

We love the Cosby show. We've been looking for the early seasons. We can find the later season for cheap, but once Olivia is on there, the show just isn't the same....

Derek said...

oh Sarah, let me tell you. You can get them on Amazon.com for $10. They have the first few seasons available. I LOVE IT!
-Mandy

Whitney said...

I'm sad I didn't get to see you at the lunch thing over christmas!