Happy Day After Christmas!!

Snowy Christmas Morning

Hope you had a wonderful Christmas with friends and family -- or maybe just some quiet alone time! We had a SUPER time with Gent, Elaine and kids, Big T and Robert, Jenna, Jim and Little Bug, and mom and dad! This year we repeated a country -- we had Russian food again! We had one of my best ever creations of borscht, chebureki, my first ever attempt at pelmeni, salads and French silk pie! So we took a side-trip into France for that one! (or not?!) Mom and I had lots of fun making the pelmeni the night before and I had made the borscht over the course of two days, starting on Monday! Elaine and Big T had fun helping to make the chebureki and poor Jenna and Little Bug just had to watch it all! They can't have the wheat (or the beef) that are in either of our main entrees. They did get to sample the borscht and the salads, though, and they were content to share some of their "approved" dishes with us! Thanks so much for that!
After lunch, the kids painted some little monogram kits that we had purchased for each one and then played some games. Before lunch, the bigger kids also tried out Tiana's new basketball hoop, but they found it rather cold to stay out too long, and basketballs don't bounce so well in the snow!! Bummer that we don't have our usual weather for that gift this year!! The snow was beautiful, but so early in the afternoon it started to freeze! We had probably an additional 4 inches or so making it rather tricky to get back out of our street! Thankfully, everyone made it safely home -- if with a few more grey hairs out of the ordeal!! After most people left, Big T and Robert stayed and the two T's built a gingerbread house with sporadic advise from Robert who was working away at his "fiendish" Sudoku game! It was such an enjoyable day and we were very thankful for each one who made it here!

Enjoy these pictures of our day!