Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Christmas Eve Ugly Sweater Party 2010

For Christmas Eve my family came over and we had an Ugly Sweater Party. It was really fun to see the "creative" side of all of our family members! It was so funny! We really had a good time. Everyone brought an appetizer to share. We had the annual white elephant gift exchange, gifts for the kids, and the "name draw" gift exchange. After all of the excitement we went to our Church for the Christmas Eve Candle light service, without the ugly sweaters, of course. It was nice to have my Grandparents, parents, and sister join us to celebrate the real reason for the season and have time to worship as a family. Madison received many art kits. These are perfect gifts for her and she will be very busy in the upcoming year! PERFECT!


Konnor and his new CAT.

Cait and her Chia Obama Head (white elephant gift). What a lucky girl!Grandpy started with the Turkey, which has been the hot item in the white elephant gift exchange for MANY years now. The turkey returns every year and is always stolen 2 times very quickly. Jeff took it from Grandpy. My Dad ended up with it when he stole it from Jeff.


Peyton will love making sock puppets! Fun!

Ryan and Kristin....no they did not wear ugly sweaters.

Little Konnor loved the lights.


Madison reading "Elf on the Shelf" to Great Grandma, Peyton, and Aunt Stacy.

Chris and Stacy

I will have to say, Errin received the vote from me for the most creative and ugliest sweater. The stocking on the front of her sweater said "Cats Love Christmas Too!" Then to top it off she had a stuffed cat on each shoulder....so funny! :)

Mom and Dad showing their ugly sweater style!

Maddie created her one of a kind bow and snowball sweater.

The Brown and Jones Families dressed in their best!
Yes...here is my family!

The entire crew...minus Ryan, Kristin, and Konnor. Wow...are we a cute bunch or what? I wouldn't trade them for the world! :)

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hello MacKenders - Thank you for recording our fun Ugly Sweater Party!! We wouldn't trade our family either. Love & Hugs, Gram BL Sargent