not that i need another reason to love him...

just found this on my pc

ok it was the 17th but such i cute photo i had to put it on the blog

yuletide felicitations!

my bed at 5am after ellie, lottie, egon and boo had opened their stockings

crazed puppy experiences his first xmas

a rawhide stocking is very exciting

but a chicken foot is the best

ellie with her buffalo wings pretzels

and she did say she wanted elvis under the tree!

lottie with her traditional pringles (no sharing involved then)

and her tablet (a highly coveted item)

this cat is an alien i am sure

a clootie dumpling!!

older sister/aunt opening her gifts

mum/grandma looking more happier about the process

our lovely dinner table

and our lovely dinner with festive bibs!

wherever and with whomever you spent the day, i hope it was surrounded by love

party preps

tincans covered in wallpaper and red netting tied in a bow...oasis inside to stick the holly and the ivy (please feel free to start singing), then red baubles threaded onto florist wire and stuck in too

these are for the tables at our dept. xmas party tonight

lottie's baking lesson

lottie made festive lovelies with her friend's mum...this is her yule log

and her sugar paste cupcakes

festive bakefest!

ginger cookies

candy cane cupcakes

caramel cupcakes

mummy's pannettone

all sliced up ready for after church xmas eve and as french toast for xmas breakfast

loola's gingerbread house

sparkly wonderland

with proper american taffy!

our xmas cake drenched with amaretto!

overnight guests

we put our names down for this...the characters from the church's crib stay with a different person each night of advent, the current hosts contact the next on the list, they take them round, say a prayer and the next hosts look after them until the next day when the whole process starts again

we had a lovely lady called Carol bring the figures to us and she ended up staying half an hour adoring egon and the cats and having a nice chat

so mary and joseph slept in the lounge by the xmas tree

tomorrow we only have to walk 2 streets along for the next hosts!