christmas 2009

It's Christmas time! This year's holiday season started when Rich kindly dragged our Christmas tree a mile on a cold and windy day. Mind you, I had to carry all the ornaments home (poor me)! Many cars that passed us as we walked by slowed down to stare and laugh at our silly ways. This isn't really a good enough reason to buy a car, is it?

I also managed to bake some Christmas cookies for the first time in years. While my Christmas trees were recognizable, many people mistook my Santa Claus cookies for parrots or seahorses. Oops.

This morning we woke up bright and early to see that Santa had indeed come to fill our stockings, eat a few Christmas cookies and drink a bit of whiskey (woo hoo)! For the first time ever, I waited until Christmas morning to open my gifts (except for the one Rich let me open a few weeks ago when I was having a bad day - which he rewrapped for me on the sly). Here is a pic of Rich with his favorite gift.

And here's one with my favorite - that's right, it's a Sarah Palin 'Going Rouge' activity book! Hours of fun will be had by all tonight!

Though Christmas is best spent with family, we decided to stay in London this year as most of our holiday this year was spent with visitors (which we thoroughly enjoyed). Deciding not to go to Cyprus or Minnesota was a good thing, as getting to the airports with an inch of snow on the ground in London would have been a miserable experience - AND Minnesota is experiencing one of the worst blizzards in decades. So here we are, with our lamb roast dinner and Christmas hats...

and here we are without any ridiculous hats. This is one English tradition that really cracks me up.

Hope you have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

PS from my Christmas cracker: What is a frog's favourite flower?

Croak-us.

Ha!