Christmas in February

Since we weren't able to get all together as a family for Christmas, we waited to do our gift exchange this last weekend while Lori and Cindy were up from Arizona. We even had the traditional rice pudding and Dad got the almond for the first time after about 35 years of doing this. He didn't even let us guess who had it, because he was too excited to keep it hiden.

Is there room for one more?

We gave Dad a gift certicate to Sports Authority to buy himself a good pair of exercise shoes. He's now ready to train for the marathon with the boys!

We gave mom a convection oven. Just what she's always wanted!

Steve and Kelly gave Lori and Brian this beautiful picture frame. After making them think Kelly had made it for them, and Lori sweating and trying to give it compliments, the truth came out it was a wedding gift given to Jessica and Matt that was used as a white elephant at the Flinders Christmas Party. You better all watch out, you don't know when it will show up again!
(Their real gift was some pizza pans and a pizza cutter, so if you visit them you better expect homemade sourdough pizza!)



Brent got a gift certifacte to Itunes from Lori and Brian. Now he can have some new stuff to listen to while he runs.

We had a really fun time. Lots of other great gifts were given. They just weren't captured on camera.