Trying to catch up on the holiday blog posts!
Jacob was very excited by the presents and had to taste each one!
Nathan and Esther gave each other pillow pets. Nathan's is Cosmo from BYU.
Esther got a rainbow unicorn - of course!
And she gave Nathan her signature squeeze around the neck hug. Poor Nathan!
We
were pleasantly surprised by snow falling that afternoon! It was so
pretty and just enough white by the evening to be perfectly cold and
made it truly feel like Christmas.
The Christmas table was very simple. My goal this year for the
holidays was to use what I had in decorating. And except for the
Christmas crackers and the take home gift, I accomplished that!
We had a traditional British Christmas dinner.
Turkey breast, Brussels sprouts, cranberry sauce, honeyed root
vegetables, roasted potatoes, and strip loin roast. It was delicious and
our guests enjoyed it.
The take home gift - a magnet with Winston Churchill's quote and a small package of shortbread cookies.
Plum pudding! I served it with some vanilla ice cream instead of the sauce this year. It made it a lighter dessert.
The Christmas crackers contained jokes, little gifts, and paper crowns.
It
was a nice Christmas. But this year Daron and I had a hard time getting
excited about cooking a large meal. We had to redo two of the dishes
and we grumped at each other most of the time. I think next year we
might just run off and rent a cabin in some snowy woods - just our
little family - and eat take out and play with the kids' new toys.
Sounds really nice!
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