Willis Family Dinner

We changed our Willis Christmas dinner that was traditionally on Christmas Eve to the Sunday before Christmas. Made it really nice since Christmas Eve everyone was starting their own traditions and choosing where to go. This way we all attend. It was a great night. Kevin who usually isn't in town for this had come up to pick his daughter up from BYU Idaho so he and Jessica and Keylee were in town. So we had everyone but Zack, Andrew, Lynda and Tori at dinner. My Mom, as usual did her huge spread of price rib, crab, soup, salad, and all the sides you could ever want.
Darren and I tried the day before to get everyone to come in their most "festive" outifts. Darren dressed up as Eddy from Griswald Christmas and I got a wonderful Christmas sweater with a Holly leaf turtleneck... We looked awesome! I really thought that everyone else would do it, but no one did so it wasn't as fun as we thought it would be~
Such a great night with family and good food... thanks Mom for having us all up there

My Mom's gorgeous Table

Everytime Kari and I are both taking pictures we take picutes of eachother with a camera to our face

This year instead of doing sibling gifts, we did a white elephant. It ended up being so much fun and so many laughs. We will definatly do this again next year.

Kevin and his SPAM and Rocks... he is holding the phone because Lynda his wife was on speaker phone.

Kami and her bronze Elephant trophy

Kyle with his Oreo's - minus the cream filing of course

Darren got all of Kari's old "self-help" books. Ironic cus one of them was "anger" and Kari and Darren's relationship has been well... rockie.

I got - Shave with me Barbie, European Edition... baically the best gift of the night. It raised the bar for next year

Kory got the World Fair Souvenir book

Mandy got a box of my Mom's tupperwear... funny thing is that Mandy has huge issues with my Mom's tupperwear so it was only fitting to have her get it. You see my Mom saves every single plastic container and re-uses it. She doesn't have a "set" of store bought tupperwear

My Mom enjoyed it so much, it was nice to see her laughing so much!

Kari and her Cream filling from the Oreo's - she thought is was something "grown up" from the feel of it in the box. I enjoyed the panic look on her face.

My Dad got a "Kitty" puzzle

Mom got 8-track tapes... and her gord off her table.

Kari and Jason - still smiling coming up on their one year anniversary

Bryson and Preston - the boys were really confused about the weird gifts and didn't understand the white elephant. We only did it with the adults so they felt a bit left out. So next year we'll maybe do something for them seperately.

Weston, Preston and Grandma playing with her "new" gord

At the end we had a little "must be santa" singing time. Bryson had a great time making up his own lines to it... I was nervous the entire time with what he'd come up with.

Preston told a few jokes - I think he really just loved being on the mic

Alex singing his song from his school