Christmas 2010

Well, a belated Merry Christmas to you all! I hope everyone’s had a beautiful Christmas day full of love and smiles! This Christmas was quite lovely. I do enjoy theming everything from wrapping paper to food, and all that’s in between!

Luke and I spoil each other rotten at Christmas, and this year I wondered if that would change when we had kids…? I guess budgets always come into it, but this little (okay, big!) part of me hopes it doesn’t change. I’m just gunna say it. I love presents.

This year I decided to make a Panattone for Boxing Day. Usually someone in Luke’s family gives us a bought one for Christmas, but you know me, I like things home made! I’m pretty happy with how it turned out- though I do need to find a proper tin. This one wasn’t quite as high as it should be, but it was a lot rounder!

Christmas was special this year because my Uncle David, Aunty Judy, and cousins, Leon and Joel came over! It’s been quite a few years since we’ve seen them for Christmas, and it was pretty special to have Nana with her three children there (Uncle David, Aunty Kris and Dad). One year it would be nice to have all the grandkids (and as of yesterday a great grandchild!) as well. I can only hope! I was pretty proud of my quick off the mark idea to take a family snap. Uncle David seems to escape most family photos (including Luke and my wedding photos … grrr!), but I got this one taken! Huzzah!

The presents were opened, and there was lots of great things. I loved giving people extra special gifts this year that we’d picked up on our holiday abroad. We got to repeat this sentence a lot of times: “You can only buy this from this one shop/museum in Paris/Germany/Amsterdam…” etc. you get the drift.

Also, below is our Christmas lunch FEAST. Turkey, and a range of salads (all relatively awesome for my diet, too!). Of course, it is not Christmas without and avo and mango salad! Anyone else have this salad every year?!

Above is my brothers. They’re a crazy bunch. All so unique, but similar as well. We spent the majority of the time we weren’t eating looking at old photos (Mum had got one of those digital photo frames from Dad for Christmas), and it was fun for my aunties and uncles to see old pictures of themselves, and for everyone to exclaim about how much each of thier children looked like either themselves or their parents…

I of course get people staring at me gasping, “Talia, you look SO much like your mother”. This is the story of my life. In fact, I have just now decided that that will be what my memoirs are called.

Above is my Nana and her brother, Martin. It was quite a pleasant suprise for him, his son and family to drop in Christmas afternoon. I took the opportunity again to take a big group photo, cause this stuff doesn’t happen every year, let along every day like the saying goes!

Boxing day was the Panettone I mentioned earlier, with my family, and then a delicious Christmas spread with Luke’s mum and siblings. It was shorter then both Luke and I anticipated, which was annoying, conisdering how difficult and stressful I had found it trying to ‘organise’ the event, but we did it! I use the term ‘organise’ very loosly. It’s more along the lines of getting everyone at the same place at the same time…

Boxing Day night was the most hilarious Christmas time EVER. The two cousins that were there (and their partners) brought their dogs, and so we all had lots of fun laughing at them chasing said dogs around the room, and checking on them and what not. We were quite glad that we left Pepper and Misty at home, or I think we would have had three bloody black dogs, and one white spotty grumpy dog (Misty). Anyway, the two dogs that were there were funny, as were their parents trying to control them!

Marcus suprised us all by being able to figure out the cloth nappy Nana and my aunty were struggling with. Apparently they were doing it inside out… (the pretext to this is that my aunty bought them for my cousin, who, on Boxing Day, was pregnant. I assume they couldn’t figure this one out…). FYI- I say she WAS pregnant, because she’s not anymore. Her son was born yesterday (28th), 4 weeks early and only 5LB! He’s healthy and whatnot, just beautifuly small!

*sigh* so that was my Christmas! We went down to the Gold Coast to see Luke’s extended family on Monday and Tuesday, which technically wasn’t Christmas, but public holidays are a good excuse to go down and see the family!

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