 my awesome yule log with maripan mushrooms & holly & key lime, rhubarb/strawberry, & apple pies....sooo goooood
 our tree looks so naked now
 some of my sick presents
 us making our princess gingerbread house
 cmas morning mayhem none of us have ever gotten so many presents it was sick
 
 chad opening his gift card for a tattoo shop which is what me & arthur got him. i was so excited the whole week b4 cmas about it. it was soooo hard not to tell him.
 cmas dinner: turkey, stuffing, gravy, cranberry sauce, stuffed mushrooms, shrimp salad(my fav), dip, green bean & mushroom salad, three aspic salads ( which were surprizingly yum), orange almond rice, honey glazed ham, mashed potatoes & then there was dessert. this is after a larger than life cmas eve snack thing & cmas breakfast.....dude that was waaaaay much food.
 making my first yule log
 Thanks so much for all your help Robin on the dinner & snacks you saved me. xxx
 cmas morning stockings
 our one cmas photo, well cmas eve, I am so crazed bout my perfect, amazing, hot, wonderful husband & gorgeous, adorable, smart, funny, & darling daughter
 we played this cool game on cmas eve god knows what its called. we all got 10 bucks canadian( or 10 cents american ) to spend on a random gift & then everyone has a turn picking agift or they steal someone elses & if someone steals your gift you can picka new one or steal someone elses gift & so on. it was great fun & i got the killerest pair of punk boots!!! ( which was what i got in my size so no one else could wear them)
 
since I've been working I've been so busy it's relly nuts. especially on the days Arthur works too, so I was more than happy to have such a non stressful christmas. I got christmas eve & cmas day off from work so i was able to do most of the cooking for both nights. We wanted things to be uber special for Jaime so we did all we could with her like writing to santa, stockings, carolling & bringing cookies & cards to the neighbours, tons of playing in the snow, making a gingerbread princess castle, chocolate calendar, decorating her own cmas tree & all the other stuff thats not coming to my head right now. She was so excited & went totally crazy, though i credit most of that to the insane amount of sugar she had in those two days. It was so great to spend cmas with my family, or most of them at least. I haven't had a cmas with any of them since i was 17 b4 I had Jaime, so this was amazing. |
cmas morning mayhem 
