I went to the Heathman Holiday tea with my friend Shelley. It was so lovely and everyone looked so grand and elegant. The food was, of course, amazing and the tea and champagne were too! I had my first Kir Royale and it was very good.
The tree is decorated so perfectly. We had to have photos by it.
The table reminded me of when my Mom and I had tea at the Sagamore in New York State. So elegant and it reminded me of reading my Samantha books again. She and her "Grandmary" always did elegant victorian things together. It was so much fun to share this with my good friend. I think we'll make it a Holiday Tradition!After the tea, I went out to Vancouver to meet up with Steven's family. They had the Howard family Christmas get-together. Steven's cousin Natalie had just celebrated her Sweet 16 on Friday and the entire garage was still decked out for the Disco they'd had to celebrate. Tara and I went to town on the kareoke machine and impressed a lot of people! Sadly, I don't have any photos! :(
Monday December 21st-I couldn't wait to open our stockings! So we did them and enjoyed our tradition of opening small gifts with each other.
I got Steven "Bro on the go" from How I Met Your Mother's Barney Stinson. It is SO funny. We have the "Bro code" as well and this is even better!
This is from "Bro on a Road Trip"- "If you find yourselves in Montana, someone screwed up somewhere." After the year we had, we found that particularly funny.
A holiday tradition- Philosopy Gingerbread Man body scrub! Also, lots of chocolate.
Wednesday December 23-I spent most of the day baking the Bon Appetit December issue Macadamia Caramel tart. My first ever tart using my new tart pan! I was really excited that it came out so well! I also got to have a "girl's lunch" with Tara while Steven helped his Dad outside on the farm.
Thursday December 24th-We exchanged presents with Steven's Parents and Tara and then had a great dinner before heading home.
Steven opened up the cookbook I've had for him since October! I have to admit that I was the first one to start thumbing through this. I've already got so many pages book marked! It is all about minimal ingrediants, fast prep and fresh food. It is awesome!
I was so excited to get a fabulous new J.Crew sweater.
After presents, we started making the Christmas Eve feast. Steven BBQ'd the Beef Tenderloin to give it lots of yummy flavor. Tara and I both thought it was a little weird to be BBQ'ing on Christmas Eve though...
Marlene took this photo of us. I'm thinking next year's Holiday picture?? It could happen.
Friday December 25th-I got like three photos before my camera battery died. This is the EPIC Christmas tree, loaded with presents. It was insane. It took so long to open them all too. In our defense, there were seven adults and one child opening presents! It was really special to celebrate at my Sister's new house! We even got an exciting present- next year we'll have another nephew to be buying presents for! On a side note- Colin decided to open almost all of his presents in his underware. So hilarous!
We had an amazing Christmas this year. We were even able to donate some things to charity and spend an entire week together with our families and good friends. It was just the best. However, we are both looking forward to 2010 and hope that this year will be filled with more good things than 2009. Regardless of the feelings about 2009, we came out stronger with more things to be thankful for than ever before. For that we are truely blessed.We hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and Happy, Safe Holidays!
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