Happy New Year Everyone!
We had a wonderful holiday season. Christmas Eve was again wonderful with family members enjoying the evening. Frenchie decided to try a new oyster soup recipe as opposed to the previous years of the milk mixture and oysters. This year was a broth filled with the aroma and taste of vegetables, oysters, and tortellinis. Some liked it and some are politely and silently reminiscing about the traditional past. We of course still had the awesome rice casserole and A delightful pineapple dish. And again my mom out did her self and had a variety of decadent chocolates which are impossible to refuse!
Christmas day Frenchie and I went over to my parents house in the morning and had lunch with my parents and spent a lazy afternoon - Frenchie and my dad took long deserved naps and my mom and I made angel ornaments for our Christmas trees (for next year). Quite relaxing and quite enjoyable.
That evening we went to Frenchie's parent's house. V wanted to play Playtion2 so Frenchie packed up the game brought it with us. We had a fabulous meal and enjoyed sitting around opening presents as the roast was cooking to perfection. We did however play a little trick on V... She has been adoring and dreaming about our puppies ever since we got Petit and Blanche. We needed to wrap her present up and could not find a study box so as Frenchie and I were sitting in the living room contemplating what to do, we both looked at the traveling dog cage...The perfect size to fit her presents... So, in to the travel cage the presents went! When we arrived at the house we pretended that the cage (which was covered with a blanket) needed to go in a warm spot and of course we could not have it in the house since the "puppy" would bark. When it came time for her to open her present, her step father brought in the cage and V started to get all excited. She had red cheeks from getting all excited and a big grin on her face, which was promptly eliminated as soon as she lifted the blanket. Yes.. we could end up on the naughty list for that trick...but...it was totally worth it! Sorry Santa!
We had a wonderful holiday season. Christmas Eve was again wonderful with family members enjoying the evening. Frenchie decided to try a new oyster soup recipe as opposed to the previous years of the milk mixture and oysters. This year was a broth filled with the aroma and taste of vegetables, oysters, and tortellinis. Some liked it and some are politely and silently reminiscing about the traditional past. We of course still had the awesome rice casserole and A delightful pineapple dish. And again my mom out did her self and had a variety of decadent chocolates which are impossible to refuse!
Christmas day Frenchie and I went over to my parents house in the morning and had lunch with my parents and spent a lazy afternoon - Frenchie and my dad took long deserved naps and my mom and I made angel ornaments for our Christmas trees (for next year). Quite relaxing and quite enjoyable.
That evening we went to Frenchie's parent's house. V wanted to play Playtion2 so Frenchie packed up the game brought it with us. We had a fabulous meal and enjoyed sitting around opening presents as the roast was cooking to perfection. We did however play a little trick on V... She has been adoring and dreaming about our puppies ever since we got Petit and Blanche. We needed to wrap her present up and could not find a study box so as Frenchie and I were sitting in the living room contemplating what to do, we both looked at the traveling dog cage...The perfect size to fit her presents... So, in to the travel cage the presents went! When we arrived at the house we pretended that the cage (which was covered with a blanket) needed to go in a warm spot and of course we could not have it in the house since the "puppy" would bark. When it came time for her to open her present, her step father brought in the cage and V started to get all excited. She had red cheeks from getting all excited and a big grin on her face, which was promptly eliminated as soon as she lifted the blanket. Yes.. we could end up on the naughty list for that trick...but...it was totally worth it! Sorry Santa!
R and D with the apron that I made them..from the looks of things... R followed the advice on the apron!
Here is Frenchie with his new shirt combo...It looks really familiar though...and I just can't figure out from where....
The other surprise that night was the ACTUAL reason the Playstation2 was brought over. Dave and I had been up the the Mall of America for our annual first date a few weeks earlier. While in GameStop I commented on how much fun a certain game would be to play. Well, Christmas day I open up to find the game that I had wanted a couple of weeks earlier...DANCING WITH THE STARS!
Here is Dave with the DANCING WITH THE STARS mat...Looks like Mario Lopez?????
We had a wonderful Christmas with our families. We are blessed to have them in our lives. Yet we still remember and miss those that were unable to be there with us. We celebrated together in spirit!
We had a wonderful Christmas with our families. We are blessed to have them in our lives. Yet we still remember and miss those that were unable to be there with us. We celebrated together in spirit!
