Anderson Family Christmas 2011

Every year my side of the family gets together sometime between thanksgiving and Christmas to have our Christmas celebration together.  This year I hosted and it was a ton of fun!! 

Lots of wrestling with Uncle Dan

Playing with Grandpa

And reading books with Grandma

There were some dance competitions on the Kinect

And three cuties SO excited about presents

My mom bought us a singing Santa that sings “lolipop lolipop”.  Izzy loved and loved singing with Aunt Emily!

games

Dress up outfits (it’s a gnome)

I got my brother a CD he wanted but got a prank gift box to put it in.  The Pet Petter- never touch your pet again   His face was hilarious!!

We made cookies and had hot chocolate

There were ONLY two major disasters   The first one happened Saturday morning when Dan came out of the downstairs bathroom saying there was a problem.  There was water leaking out of the vent in the ceiling.  Tim and I went upstairs and two toilets water supply had sheared off from the wall and we had two geysers, two bathrooms filled with 3 inches of water, and lots of panic.  My brothers and dad helped get the water up pretty quickly and we set out fans to dry where it got on the carpet.  We are still waiting to find out the extent of the damage….

Piper loves picking on Grandpa

The second disaster came on sunday morning as Tim was watering the Christmas tree before he left for church.  He noticed VILLAGES of bugs on the trunk of the tree.  Needless to say he didn’t make it to church.  I was so thankful to have other people there to help get the big infested tree out of the house!!  Ewwww…. my skin is crawling just thinking about it!!  It was a big ordeal getting the ornaments and lights off the tree and then getting it outside!!  I was right behind then vacuuming up the bugs as fast as I could.  There were even bugs on our second story window sills. 

Even with our disasters I still count the weekend as a success!  We had lots of fun, made lots of memories, and enjoyed seeing everyone!  I’m hoping for more Anderson Family Christmas’s at the Rouse house