Christmas, Chanukah and Llamas

Christmas/6th night of Chanukah* at the Rebarchik's this year was probably the greatest event to have ever taken place ever. Just kidding, it was mildly unremarkable, but anything that involves presents is pretty great by me.

In any case, we did the whole "open presents" business which took a grand total of 20 minutes, and then had my madres fantastico Christmas dinner/lunch in Cedar Hills. Finn was very confused by this new "having dinner at lunchtime" concept. He kept looking around forlornly for his peanut butter sandwich and banana that he is so very used to. Cute :)

And since we all got such awesome presents, nobody had to go elbow their way through a mall to do any exchanges. As such, we went to the Hare Krishna Temple and Finn had a blast with the Llamas and Zebus. No joke, I think it might have been the happiest day of his life. He loves animals, but Llamas! LLAMAS! Holy crap, are they amazing. He was running up and down the pens exclaiming his love for these camel-derivatives and throwing hay at them so they'd come over...which they didn't. They were rightfully wary of the knee-high banshee yelling at them.

Want proof of all these festivities, Llama and otherwise? Here you go!

We tried our luck at a family picture...this is the best your gettin'

Sandwich, please?

Llooking for Llamas...

Finn harassed this particular Llama extensively..

Found 'im!

* Did you know half of my family is technically Jewish? As a result, those "Happy Holidays" cards that people get all up in arms over, work just great for us. "Merry Christmas" makes the Jewish half of me feel sad and neglected, while a "Happy Chanukah" card...if they exist...would make my Christmas celebrating half feel equally as left out.