Karen, preparing the goodie bags, always thinking of others!

Michael and Laura

Close up of smiley Laura

The fun begins!

Karen hands out the goodie bags.

clapping at something!

Larry, Mo and Curly !! snort!

Stages of amusement !!

Brittni yelling something!

Getting situated for White Elephant Gift game

Number picking time

Drew pretending his 18 is an 81

Caption needed!!

no comment - that's Warren's bee-hind!

John DM opens the BBQ grill thingy.

JohnO thrilled with his clown thing-a-ma-jig!

Sam gets a box of video tapes, this was JUST prior to him dropping one on the top of Karen's head!

Ann opening present #1 - a santa fondu thing.

Everybody loves Ramen !!

Caleb scores Garlic Festival stuff

Ann opening present #2 (vacuum sweeper thing - that was taken from her too!)

John DD gets one of the red hearts from the womens christmas lunch !

Ann opening present #3 - the perfect man - it farts!

OhMyGosh it's ALIVE! Heather is thrilled (LOL - NOT!) to find a naked mole rat in a ball !! Check out Stan's reaction in the background!!

Chuch doesn't seem so skeeved by the rat as his wife, but Caleb does!!

Bailey opens a delightful antique (HA!) clock.

Melody gets doggie cookies and stuff, everyone is still watching the rat!

Laura opens her gift - with a big positive attitude and smile!

A Gumball machine - minus the Gum!

Chuck opens up a facial sauna thingy

B gets tea towels

Drew will have to fall off the wagon of his 'Santa Diet' to eat up his PBJ present!

Michael anticipating something good!

Yay, he's thrilled with the power planner!

MINE! Genie showing us she likes her twirly remote caddy thing!

Genie realizing that now someone will have to give her a big screen tv with remote to accompany this wonderful gift!

Tasha gets a photography book with a scary lopsided trumpeter on the front

Stan worried about gift #1 and what lurks in this innocent envelope! It was a Panera's gift card - it got taken from him pretty fast!

Mary, worried what Chuck might do with the rat, takes it off Heather's hands.

So Heather gets to open another gift - she got a new G-STRING - very imaginative I thought!

Happy to be out of his ball, which need a poop clean-up!

Chuck feeling sad that the rat will not be living at the Stamm casa!

So he drops it on Drew's head - I think the rat is more scared!

Mary rescues the rat back and gives it some lovin'

Rebecca gets a boat load of CD's

Not impressed x 2 !

Denise wondering if there is melted Coldstone in this bag!

Nope no icecream, Chicken & Fish !

Stan genuinely ecstatic to get a goldfish - His teeth look super white too!

Brittni gets reindeer soap on a rope - Warren seemed happy about it!

This is ALL I get?

Everyone trying to be convincing that their 'gift' is worth taking!

The other side of the room says, No look over HERE at our available gifts!

What is THIS? - She looks SO puzzled !! LOL!

Kenny points to his Turkey candle (that'll go good with his wife's chicken and fish!)

Doug in a weak moment of total insanity takes the clowns from JohnO!

JohnO hopeful that his next present COULDN'T be worse than the clowns gets a classic book! It will be good for guest bathroom reading!

The rat again - it's a baby but it's got a wrinkly head already!

The rat goes walkabouts!

Bailey looking beautiful!

Karen and Alice - YAY, Thank you JohnO for taking some photos, so I can show people I was there too! (sometimes it stinks being the one with the camera!)

Bestriends - this photo is really nice, I like the composition with the piano in the background - and we just look so happy!

JohnO working the camera now, we're posing!

OK so we were BOTH supposed to do the 'typical teenager photo lip pose' - obviously Karen didn't hear the photographer's prompts! ... and I'm the deaf one!!

Rhapsody in Red - Bailey and Karen

Kayla and Jeremiah in their own little honeymooners world!!