Great Goodness... We Got Gifts

Well, Christmas is over for another year... hahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!! That was maniacal laughter if you weren't aware.

So the big day is over and I feel rather like something momentous happened but I'm not entirely sure what.
I need to back up actually to a few days before Christmas. And I have pictures to prove it all....
So Daughter #1 and Teapot arrived home from their trip into the great white north where they had had a bit of every kind of weather imaginable. Daughter #1 survived her trip into the wilds with no snow pants and I was very worried about that but the weather stayed on our side and she wore several layers of pants with wind/rain pants on the outside. The weather stayed warm and wet though the last night they were there there was a dump of about 8 inches of snow, but by then she was in her shelter and sound asleep. Yes she had built herself a great shelter that looked like this...

...that's her sleeping bag in there.

They were out there for two and a half days and had two meals for the whole time unless you count the squirrel they managed to catch, cook and eat.  Eeew!Well it was wilderness survival!

But when she got home she was as hungry as a bear and so was Teapot so I had promised them a pan Scramble and pan scramble they got....

Hash Browns, onions, tomatoes, corn, garlic, egg, and cheese.

And while that was cooking I made the cranberry sauce for Christmas day dinner...

They spent the rest of the day recuperating.... from their trip but really they didn't look too worse for the wear.... and in the end a good shower to wash off the stink and they were as right as rain.

Meanwhile I was still working on Socks... remember the first socks that I made that I had trouble dyeing... well, I finally got them finished on Christmas Eve and they looked like this when they were finished....

I know one sock looks bigger than the other but they are not. I tried them up against each other and they were the same size so lets just put it down to bad photography.

I also came back from shopping the day before Christmas and had a party for the Knock-out Knitters.  Here we are enjoying our gift exchange....

Then on Christmas eve day we went to a friend's house and had brunch. we left the Daughters there as they were having a blast playing video games and Teapot and I came home to finish putting up the Christmas village that I hadn't put up yet....

After that other friends showed up for a short visit and one thing led to another and suddenly it was time to go to church. The service was lovely and I had a nice compliment from a fellow who sat in front of me and told me I had a lovely voice. I loved singing all those old familiar tunes and tried to sing them all the best that I could.... I loved that.

We got home late and the girls hung their stockings.... and went to bed leaving Teapot and I to finish wrapping and stuffing stockings. 2:30 a.m. we crawled into bed after taking a couple of pictures of the tee and all the stockings lined up on the couch....

The next morning we were up and opening gifts thanks to Daughter #2 at 7:00 a.m. (she was very excited....)
Here are some of the highlights of Christmas morning......

Surprisingly she did like her present but she wasn't pleased about having her picture taken...

Daughter #1 liked her hoodie too.

I can't wait to try out my reeds.

Teapot needs new glasses I think!

New slippers which I haven't taken off.... except at night when Narmin's nose moves in...

A very happy Daughter #2 getting her Christmas iPad "cheese"

Daughter #1 getting her iPad.... "awesome"

 And then stupid got all choked up... not sure why... lets just put it down to age...

.. I do have to say that I was so pleased that the girls liked their gifts... we also gave them a new snow jacket for Daughter #2 and ski pants for Daughter #1.

After all the gifts were open at our house... we went to my parents house.... and opened more gifts there!

Mudder getting her new bird feeder...

Here's Pops getting a new book...

New boots for Teapot...

New boots for me too...

Dinner was just fine. We have much for which to be thankful...good food, wonderful family time, great gifts of things that we need. Plus a few things that we didn't need. Yesterday was a down day to pat our bellies and no we didn't get out into the bush for our tea because the wind which has been blowing for days and the ground is now covered in ice that is polished to fearful rink. So we will wait a few days and wait for the snow that the forecast is calling for and hopefully then we can go out in the bush without breaking our necks.

This evening there is company coming for dinner and tomorrow Teapot and I will be celebrating our 20th anniversary.... then who knows what for the rest of the Christmas season....

But for now I am off to drink another cup of tea and spin some merino rovings.

All's well that ends well...