Thursday, January 14, 2010

HAPPY NEW YEAR!




Happy New Year to everyone!! I hope you all had a great Christmas and had fun welcoming in the new year.
We had a nice Xmas in Aus. Everyone grouped in Brisbane, with Craig's sister and her two teenage boys and Craig's parents driving up from NSW. 4 families living under one roof for 5 days was 'interesting'.... no really, it was ok. There were 10 of us - luckily mum and dad's house is big!
Christmas day was fun with the entire two familys for lunch - 16 in all.
It was an early start, with Zoe discovering Santa had left something at the end of her bed - at 5.30am! A record awakening time. So, we all sat in our bed discovering what Santa had left in Zoe's Santa sack. It was lovely. So, by 6am - the whole house was awake, with Zoe visiting each bedroom, waking the occupants to look what Santa had brought her.

Craig cooked Christmas lunch - with a hot meal. He cooked Martha Stewart recipe of honey glazed ham with pears and cranberries, a large potato gratin, and steamed veges. It was delicious.
After lunch we gathered around the tree and gave each other our Christmas presents, which was followed by all the kids swimming in the pool.
It was a relaxed and fun day.

New Year's Eve was a very low key event.... after dinner Zoe lit some sparklers to celebrate the coming of the new year but was in bed by around 10pm. Dad also didn't make it past 10pm. Mum, Craig and I saw the New Year in, quite by accident. We were watching Lord of the rings - the return of the kings which finished aroun 1am!!

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