Christmas #3

On Christmas day we went to my parents house for lunch & presents!  Rhonda brought a couple of her dogs.  They were dressed as Santa.  Can you say ridiculous?!

I saw some animal shaped hats on the backs of the dining room chairs where Butterfly & Rhonda sit.  I just figured that they had some silly animal shaped hats.  I mean-the chick dresses her dogs up as Santa for crying out loud.

But...B-rad & I had animals on our chairs too.  Mom got us all one for Christmas!

We thought we looked too cute & wanted to take a picture.  Mom even got herself a wolf.  She was cooler than us because hers has long ears with pockets.  Butterfly tried to set the camera...

Second attempt...

Third time was a charm...

Dad doesn't wrap gifts.  He keeps them in the bags he bought them in & just starts randomly handing them out...whenever HE is ready... doesn't matter what the rest of us are doing.

B-rad got an electric toothbrush from mom.  Doesn't he look happy?  I'll tell you why in a second...

Here was my pile of loot!

One of Rhonda's dogs likes to open presents.

We got mom a Kindle fire.  This thing is seriously cool.  If you are thinking about getting a tablet & don't want to fork over the cash for an iPad... you need to research this.  It's small, you can surf the web, & download books & magazines.  One bad thing is that it doesn't have a camera, but it's small & the color on it is amazing.

Mom has us send her Amazon wish lists so she knows what to buy for us.  She said she never thought in a million years I would want something to cook with.  It's not like I really wanted it, but I needed the programmable one so it would shut off before we get home.  I made potato soup in my regular one once & the potatoes were mush when I got home.

B-rad wasn't real good with sending mom his wish list.  I kept telling him, "You're a moron.  Mom is BEGGING to buy you stuff & you won't take the time to send her a list!"  (I'm all about the tough love, remember?!)  Of course, I had no issue with telling her things I thought she should get him.  I told her the toothbrush because he threw a fit when I bought me one without buying him one.  (UHM, my dentist told me to buy myself one... I wouldn't have done it if it wasn't for that...)  I wanted some new luggage (mom got my set before I was even married.  It is made from heavy materials (& now they have all those restrictions on luggage weight) & it's starting to fall apart.  The set I wanted was like beige with black flowers & while B-rad doesn't really care if he has to carry flowery suitcases, I thought he'd like to have something manly & just for him.  Butterfly has a duffel bag/suitcase looking thing he took to Hawaii & I thought that would be right up B-rad's alley.

We got Rhonda a little 31 bag full of goodies.  A water bottle kanteen with her name on it, some jewelry, a scarf & a clip thingie for her ipod cord.  I didn't get a pic of Butterfly opening his gifts, but we got him an Under Armour toboggan & Under Armour gloves (because he's a nut job & runs & exercises outside - even in winter!!!) and a clip thingie for his ipod cord.

This was one of my favorite gifts from Mom.  A new blingy cell phone case.  It's loud, it's obnoxious, it's flowery AND it's purple.  It practically screams my name...