The Blackwell Family's Christmas Eve Gift Exchange

After an amazing dinner (thanks mom) we all gathered in the living room for our gift exchange. We drew names (as is our usual custom) but decided that this year we really just wanted to do gag gifts. (which, is what we basically do every year, only this year we made it a rule.) Kort was not part of the gift exchange (because everyone got him presents) but I just wanted to post some cute shots of him opening some board games that gaga gave to him.

Remember the Christmas Nostalgia I mentioned in an earlier post...?

I know, right?

Can't get more nostalgia-ish than

CandyLand

and

Chutes and Ladders

board games!

Gift Exchange:

Kyle had Bryan:

Don't ask me what this is, because I have no idea!

It was just too good to pass up!

We came to the conclusion that this is either

a high school choir group t-shirt

OR

a "Flatt Family Reunion" t--shirt.

Either way, completely gorgeous/amazing/fantastic.

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Cristi had Mom

Magnets of Jack making seriously hilarious faces.

I don't think that anything could have tickled her more...

Okay, well there was one thing

but I'm not telling till the end of the post ;)

I had Dad:

He got a book and a book on CD...

I know, bor-ing, but I wasn't 100% certain that he

would give an "I'm with the 4th Flatt" t-shirt the sort of wear and tear

it is so clearly worthy of getting...

He's a darn good lil' reader though,

so I figured the books would be a safe bet.

Mom had Cristi:

80's fabulous earrings from "Forever 21"

and a framed family pic.

Dad had me:

translation: mom had me...

translation: I got exactly the same things as Cristi did.

translation: I don't have anything to put here, but

it just seemed like 3 (and not 2) translations would really put the clincher

on the little theme I had going here.

Gift receiver not pictured...because she was taking the picture.

(You're moms, you know how that goes.)

Bryan had Trevor:

So Trevor got an 8x10 picture of Bryan wearing a helmet (for reasons that are, as of yet, unexplained) in the cheapest frame that Walmart has to offer, and that weather/sports/newscaster guy got a cameo on The Lola Letters Blog. You're welcome guy. Merry Christmas.

Trevor had Kyle:

(who was instructed to close his eyes)

drum roll please...

Festivus Pole Baby!

I believe these pictures sum up Kyle's feelings quite well.

love love love

(Blue Steel baby...or is this Magnum...Letigra perhaps?)

Oh, and he also got a framed picture of Trevor

(which now holds a place of

honor and importance

on our living room mantle)

The film strip along the bottom has a scene for every season.

Summer, Spring, Winter, Fall - ha ha!

I wish Trevor had me or Kyle EVERY year.

Neither of us "drew" Trevor, but he's just so fun to get presents for...

so we bought him stuff anyway.

You've been "Schooled" baby!

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Find of the Season!

Trev thinks these "Wolf/Indian/Utah" shirts are

H.I.L.A.R.I.O.U.S.

but he hasn't been able to find one.

(wait, let me clarify, he hasn't been able

to find one that's selling for less 24.95 and located

somewhere other than the gas stations between Payson and Beaver!)

Well, we found one baby, and it is H.O.T

...and now for the best idea ever!

Bry and Cristi went and got an early ultra sound done in St. George, but they didn't find out the sex. They gave the ultrasound tech a blue blanket, a pink blanket, and a box, and asked her to put the pink blanket in the box if it was a girl and the blue blanket if it was a boy. She then put the other blanket in a large envelope (so they couldn't see either one) and sent them on their way. I have NO IDEA as to how Cristi kept herself from peeking (I get the feeling that it has something to do with her being inherently awesome, but maybe that's just me...)but it was SO MUCH FUN to watch them find out what they were having on Christmas Eve!

Just about to open it.

It's a G.I.R.L.!

Sorry, it's blurry, but it's the magical

"capture the moment action shot"

so, blurry or not, it had to be in here!

(Okay, Bryan is admittedly being mildly mock-ish

because I was taking 300 bajillion pics)

Looking at ultrasound pics.

Seriously, so fun. It was an awesome way to end the night.

I can't believe we're finally gonna get a girl on the Blackwell side!

Gaga was tickled...to say the least.

I hope dad (AND Bryan, for that matter) is ready to go bankrupt,

because that's officially inevitable!