Farewell to Christmas

So we had our last (but certainly not least) Christmas celebration last weekend.  WAYyyyy back when we thought Anna would be born on Dec. 20th we decided to plan our Christmas with Todd's family in January to make sure everyone could be there and we wouldn't have a brand new baby.   When she was born early, we decided to keep the date to keep things easy.   It was actually kind of fun to have it later and less overwhelming for Eli (and us!) to not have everything all at once.   Here are some highlights from the weekend:

*Eli and his cousin Jaimeson hanging out.   Eli is 9 months older than Jaimeson and they love each other to pieces!  
*Anna meeting her Aunts and Papa.  Believe it or not, they did a great job sharing her ; )
*As Seen on TV gifts.  Every year we try to pick a theme for our gifts and this was our theme this year.   Plenty of Snuggies went around, but my personal favorite was the Butt Face soap.  It is literally one bar of soap for your Butt (brown) and one bar of soap for your Face (white)...genius.
*Reading 22 days after Christmas.   It is a family tradition to read "The Night Before Christmas" but since we celebrated a little late we modified it a little bit.   Each person starts the story off with a gift.  As the story is read gifts are passed each time the word "THE" is read.  The gift you wind up with at the finish of the story is yours!   Donna (Todd's mom) always picks the best gifts.   I won a "Mega Horn" that freaked the kids out at first, but then Eli started using it and it is now hidden (by me) somewhere in the house.   Where is it?  I'll never tell...

Thanks everyone for a great weekend!  To see the complete pictures visit our shutter fly link to the right and click on album Kilby/Warren Christmas 2009(10).