Christmas Eve Dinner turned out quite nice. On the menu this year was our traditional roast but I decided to try three new dishes (scared... and I may have freaked out once): roasted garlic and Gorgonzola mashed potatoes, roasted butternut squash and croissants. The roast was very good.... the potatoes were decent... the squash was heavenly and the croissants were good but I think I need to cook them 2 or 3 minutes longer because they weren't as fluffy as I would have liked.
After dinner we donned our gay apparel... more commonly known as our Christmas eve jammie's!
This year we played Sequence, it was a really fun game and I would definitely recommend it. We played on teams, me and Liv against Nate and Lex. First game went to me and Liv and the second game Nate and Lex won. Liv was bored of it by then because it was taking to long to get to her turn!
The girls got busy making some cookies for Santa... this year they went with peanut butter cookies.... maybe we will dip the extras in some melted milk chocolate tomorrow... yum!
This year the Christmas book I chose for our reading was "Matchless" by Gregory Maguire. It is an adaptation of "The little match girl" by Hans Christian Andersen but slightly more heartwarming and not as grim!
Christmas morning started at quarter past 5 this year. Santa brought Liv some sleigh bells from his sleigh and Barbie's all doll'd up nails. Lex got the new ipod nano and an ihome.
I think everyone made out pretty good this year and hopefully nobody was disappointed! Here are some pictures from our Christmas morning.
Everyone needed to meet the orangutan... some of us think it is a little bit creepy!
I made our traditional breakfast of scones, buttermilk biscuits, sausage gravy, hash brown casserole and scrambled eggs... we are on our way to gaining 10 lbs this Christmas!
The kitchen is barely surviving the onslaught... really dreading cleaning up this morning!
While we ate we watched the Christmas Story and at some point we will break out the one and only Christmas classic, Elf! Liv is also dying to watch season one of The Muppet Show (me too!) which was a present picked out by yours truly.
Liv gave us a private Christmas concert... she is getting pretty good. We begged Lex to play her guitar but she isn't interested in showing off her talent and we aren't interested in pissing off the teen!
We are thinking maybe later we will go see Alvin and the Chipmunks the squeakuel. I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas, we sure do miss everyone and love you all tons!!!
7 comments:
Wow it looks like you got everything you could possible want. I am in love with your monkey Liv! It was wonderful to hear you play. Come on Lex we want to hear you play the guitar. Merry Christmas and we miss you tons. Thanks Angie for sharing your Christmas with us. Love us.
Oh my gosh! You guys look like your holiday was amazing!! I am so jealous.
Once again your family is absolutely incredible. You have painted such a beautiful picture as always.
Merry Christmas. I miss and love you guys so much.
Looks like you guys had a fabulous day! Merry Christmas!! :)
Merry Christmas!!! Sounds like you guys have some fun traditions! I LOVE the jammies! Hope you guys had fun at the movies and have a great New Year!
It does look like a fabulous family day. You guys always do it up right. I know it is a lot of work, but you make it look so effortless. We sure do miss you here though.
hope your day was awesome, we love you guys so much.
Merry Christmas to you all. Your trees look beautiful, the music divine, the presents wonderful, and each of you hold a special place in my heart! I am so glad that you are enjoying living in Erie and doing so many wonderful things and going so many wonderful places. You are making special memories. We missed you at the family party, as well as Rick and Jef and Matt, and Denise. Maybe next year?
Trust you guys to have the classiest holiday around. We did a lot of just hanging out, and I will try to get the pictures posted tomorrow.
I really like the orangutan. It reminds me of the Best Friends video you sent me of the orangutan and the coonhound. I still think I need an orangutan to entertain my coonhound.
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