Friday, November 28, 2008

Jing a ling... Jing Jing a ling...

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With Lowell and Judy on their mission in Singapore we figured this was our year to go "all out". We had a "festive sweater" Thanksgiving this year with prizes for the best get ups. We were impressed with everyones outfits. It made it a ton of fun, and now we have some pretty awesome pictures for our posterity.





None of the pictures fully captures our attire however... Ash won the grand prize with her denim christmas jumper, polygamist poof hair, wreath earings and french braid. I actually won 3rd place.You really should have seen me in my polyester blue pants, snowflake turtle neck and Mr. Rogers sweater... my nick name for the evening was Chester...

Here are all the guys. I was a particular fan of Rileys dangling bells from his Red Cowboy Christmas sweater (he won 2nd place) and Andrews last minute sweater with the beautiful Noel hanging from it. Good times had by all... It really is beginning to look a lot like Christmas!!!

16 comments:

Taryn said...

LOL! You guys look awesome! What a fun tradition to start. Jon - I especially love your facial expressions... Happy Thanksgiving!

The Shepherd Family said...

That's freaking hilarious! I'm glad you guys had so much fun. What a great idea!

christensen crew said...

I lOVE it, always wanted to go to an ugly Sweater party! You have the funnest fam! Glad you had fun...probably wasn't the same without your parents! :) Love you guys!!!

Andrea Weaver said...

I LOVE it!! Linds & I were just laughing so hard at all the great poses!! By the way, those pictures of Lily are SO precious! She is a doll. Hope you're enjoying your holidays! Love you....Ann

Lisanne Lee said...

Ha Ha! Just HIDEOUS. Absolutely hideous and nothing looks like more fun. If Ash didn't win, I'd a been mad.

Anonymous said...

Ha Ha Jon... Your hair is too much for words, I love it! I'm laughing right now cause I think it's so funny.

The Prince's said...

This is hysterical. I think you should keep the get-up going the whole Christmas season.

Tiffany said...

OMG... that is the COOLEST Thanksgiving ever! You guys are so lucky to have such a fun family. Wherever did you find those getups!

Aubrey Messick said...

Oh my gosh! You guys are the mist ridiculous. I just love you all. :)

Shanna said...

too funny!

Kass Martin said...

Those are so funny. I love it. What a fun way to have Thanksgiving. I am always stumped as to what to wear on Thanksgiving b/c being indoors usually means sweats but fancy dinner and family usually means dressier. So year after year I'm stuck in the middle. If only I would whip out my hideous Christmas outfit, that would be perfect. Gotta love the Andersons. I bet your parents were missing you so bad.

Shannon said...

Oh man this is awesome!! Ash's dress is too perfect. I love the French braid idea!!

J & J said...

this is AMAZING. seriously. love it.

Kari said...

I haven't laughed that hard in such a long time! So classic. What a fun family! You guys are hilarious!

Jenn said...

That is so awesome! What great sweaters and what a fun family.

The Zeediks said...

So funny!