Mum had the house decorated beautifully and had a cute little Christmas tree up in the corner of the dining room that was collecting all of our gifts.
As is tradition, Mum made a seafood based Christmas Eve dinner. Some wickedly delicious crab and shrimp open faced sandwiches. Yes, please.
Saturday morning Chase woke us up bright and early so that we wouldn't miss Santa. Good thing because we scored some good loot.
The classic "yowzers" face by Chris.
And of course some regional foodie favorites. The big Christmas plan was for friends and family to come over for a Christmas lunch buffet around 1:00 pm. Mum made some ham, pasta salad, potato salad, rolls, cheese platter, salmon spread and our family friend, Carolyn, brought over some baked beans.
Nom, nom, nom. It was a quick weekend visit with family since we needed to not only beat the snow driving through the passes on the way home, but we both had to be back to work on Monday. So, after a quick breakfast this morning we packed it up and headed out. We put the truck in 4-wheel drive at the base of the hill to get over the passes between Oregon and California and made it through fine. They had plows galore on the road clearing the debris.
Since we were gone for Christmas, I'd made plans for my mom and sister to come over tonight for dinner and our gift exchange. After some tasty jambalaya and salad we sat down and started opening our new treasures.
A fruit and nut basket from Yakima, WA.
A perfume sampler for me so I'll be smelling like a spring flower for at least a week.
Wilson, trying on her new Citizen Eco-Drive watch for the fifteenth time while the Canadian kept removing links for her until it fit.Overall, we had a great four-day Christmas experience. Lots of time spent with friends and family. And at the end of it all Chris ended up with enough Mr. Beer refill kits to keep him busy for many months to come. Success for all!
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