Christmas at the Sayre's

We completed gift opening in a record 7 hours at the Sayre house today....Opening presents has become a slightly slower process than it was prior to Veda & Adele.  That combined with the fact Kathy got the flu last night (now I am officially the only person from the Laabs Christmas not to get the flu - first Owen, then Adele, Kelly, Chris, Grandma Didi, and today Grandpa Gary and Kathy).  

We started with a 2 hour opening session this morning, took a 3 hour break for Adele & Veda's nap (Kathy also crashed with them after mistakenly taking Advil PM at 11am - instead of Ibuprofen.)  This was then followed by another 2 hour session to close it out this afternoon.  One of the highlights was Uncle Ryan's "silver noodle" necklace to commemorate Veda's AFV debut this month.

Veda certainly had a barrel of fun (pun intended)...she also loved her new toys, many of which are from our childhood (i.e. Barrel of Monkeys, Candyland, etc).  

Below are the Christmas ornaments that Veda & Adele made for Bull and Nani....and a rare picture of Kathy (given her aggressive bout with the flu last night).

And a rare picture of Baby 'dell, given her 4 day bout with the flu...

 I'm still holding strong....please don't let me get the flu before we fly back on Tuesday afternoon.