Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Portraits

We had a little bit of nice daylight, for a change, so I took some new pictures of the youngest two. My camera isn't good at this time of year really, it hates the dreary weather.




Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Christmas Day


We had a lovely Christmas day. Normally I get up at 5am to put the giant turkey on, then kids get up early and open their sacks from Santa. This year we all had a lovely lay in until about 8am, then sacks got opened in a frenzy. Normally I would spend the next 5 hours out in the kitchen preparing for the whole family to descend on us, except this year I had gone on strike...we were going to our friends Sam & Russ for dinner instead.



Sack presents!







The HUGE pile of presents at our friends


Can you see the resemblance? :)


Beautiful baby Willow


Russ and all the children waiting patiently for dinner.

Isobel playing Harvey's new guitar



Crazy present opening. We used a lot of bin bags.






I still helped with the cooking, but it was nice not to have the stress of doing it all alone. It was a very chilled out day with lovely grub and good friends. I'm doing dinner at home again next year, which I'm going to hate after having such a wonderful relaxing time this year.