Christmas 2011

We've had a busy couple of days and finally Sydney turned on some gorgeous weather, just in time! I think we even got up to 31deg yesterday. Not bad considering all the rain and grey days we've had leading up to Christmas.

On Christmas Eve we were invited to Hubby's brother's house for a celebratory dinner. My sis-in-law put on an amazing spread, with stuffed mushrooms, salad, gourmet chicken balls, pasta salad and delicious Atlantic salmon cooked to perfection. Plus yummy chocolate truffles for a light dessert. The kids had a great time running round the back yard, swinging, jumping on the tramp, squirting water pistols and Morgan played in a bucket of water which he ended up dumping on himself! After dinner the kids all had a bath together then we headed home, hoping to give Morgan an early night, however he was too hyped up and didn't get to sleep til around 9.30pm. Hubby & I finished wrapping pressies, placed them under the tree then headed to bed. 

Due to Morgan's late night (and a few wake ups during the night), we managed to get a sleep in til 9am. Why not make the most of it, since next Christmas he'll be more aware of what is going on and will probably be up at the crack of dawn! We sat on our bed to open the pressies in his stocking then headed out to the lounge where he ooohed & aahhed at the tree. We skyped my parents while eating breakfast and Morgan kept them entertained with his antics. We had yummy trifle for breakfast, just cos it's Christmas! I was quite impressed at my first attempt to make trifle. 

Anti clockwise from top: peppermint bark, kiwi card picture, new pressie, trifle, checking out pressies. Main pic: surrounded by chaos at lunchtime

After Morgan's nap, we headed to the in-laws for Christmas lunch. My niece & nephew were so excited when we arrived as they'd been waiting for us to get there before opening pressies (we were a bit late due to Morgan having a big nap!). Paper went everywhere and the kids had fun playing with everything at once. Lunch was then served, and we enjoyed yummy ham off the bone, prawns, fish bites, crumbed crab (I gave mine to Muz, yucky!), pork, chicken and salads. For dessert we had chocolate mud cake, choc macadamia slice and Christmas cake. We headed home around 6pm and just had a light dinner of leftovers. Morgan had another restless, wakeful night so is making up for it today with a big nap. 

It was a lovely, reasonably quiet Christmas although still exhausting and I'm glad for a day of doing absolutely nothing today. My plan for the evening is to go through Morgan's toybox and sort out some of the baby toys to put away/give away so we can make room for his new pressies. And maybe have some more trifle!