On the 17th (Dec) we got together at Ken & Gina's house for our annual Ugly Sweater party and also to celebrate Blake's birthday. I already wrote about what we did for Blake's part of it in an earlier post. We had it at Ken and Gina's house and had stroganoff and potatoes. The last couple years we have had it closer to Christmas but this year my parents were going South for Christmas and we wanted to do it when they were here. My mom had a stomach bug though and after we went to the cemetery they went back to my house and missed the rest of the get together. We were all sad they weren't there.
I am kicking myself that we didn't take any pictures. No one did! Ryan had rigged together a sweater with a stuffed animal and it played music, Ken had a big Santa face on his sweater. (I had given it to him for his birthday) Emma wore the sweater I had gotten for Brandon for his birthday (he had to work) and she had strings of beads draped all around it. Steph had cute out Snowmen from a previous sweater and pinned them on a plain black sweater. Ashley had a plastic pair of ski's in a clear pocket on her sweatshirt. I wore a pioneer looking apron that went to the ground. It was yellow and red. Jimmy, Conner and Aaron wore ugly cardigans. Kali wore a cute red sweater but then we uglied it up with a stocking that clashed. Sophie wore her dog sweater but it looks cute even though on an adult it would of be ugly. Camile borrowed a sweater from someone in her ward- she gets double points for that.
Steph's best friend, Michelle, came with her little boy, Hudson. It was fun to see her.
We had prizes courtesy of my mom and I think everybody got something. Except me, I was the prize giver (with Steph's help) and at the end, there wasn't anything I wanted.
Then we had our white elephant gift exchange. Some of the highlights were the colt and horse picture (that keeps getting exchanged for the last couple years) I added a oval wooden (cut from a tree) picture of a horse. So now it's a set. The little ping pong table showed up again too but it came with a big bucket of nuts and chocolate. Aaron stole the toilet paper and soap from Kali which she was grateful for. We had a great time. Since mom and dad weren't there, they ended up with the two last gifts.
The next night, Sunday, we went and dropped the gloves off down town at the homeless shelter and then we went to the Grand America for the window display. Everybody gets a card and you try and find the star in each of the displays. At the end, we turned in our cards for sugar cookies. There was a life size ginger bread house that was neat and pretty trees all decorated through out. It was a fun adventure.
Next we went and looked at the lights at Temple square but the drivers got in a traffic jam so they let us out and then we walked around (Scotty stayed with Jimmy) and then we caught Trax back and met them in the parking lot where we started across from the Grand America.
Then we went to Steph's house and had chili and baked potatoes. The kids opened their jammies from Nany Nette and Grandpa. Sophie was so excited to have the same nightgowns as Carlie and Ellie. Kali and Emma got the same jammies and Conner and Brigham got long johns to go under their clothes when they go sledding or snowboarding. The girls all put theirs on.
Scotty's new thing when he gets a picture taken is he smiles real cute when you tell him your taking a picture and then he says, "I wanna see it" when you finish. He loves to see how he looks. So cute!!
We also gave mom & dad their 2012 Calendar. They loved it!
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