Christmas!

Leo comes downstairs to see his Santa loot...

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Henry checks out his cupcakes for his kitchen...

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Leo loves his "color duds" that turn the bathwater into colors...

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More Henry...

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Time for Christmas Breakfast! We had Eggos and sausage...in our Shrek shoes of course...


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Leo loves his Bolt Wii game from Gran and Grandpa...

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And Henry loves his Richard Scarry books from Gran and Grandpa...

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Nana sent Henry some slippers. Henry LOVES, LOVES, LOVES footwear of any sort...so we had to try these on...

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He quickly believed figured out that the slippers were like ice skate on the concrete floors and had to take them for a spin!

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Our good friends, The Hutchesons, came over for dinner on Christmas Night. We so enjoyed sharing Christmas dinner with them. We used a menu from Southern Living as our guide and had a wonderful meal. We did a salad, yeast rolls, an onion pudding (medium on this!), asparagus, and beef tenderloin for dinner. With yummy red wine...and iced tea! Miss Allie (*loud cough* YANKEE!!!) was interested to learn that no Southern Christmas table is complete without iced tea!

Miss Allie assembles the salads.

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Miss Allie had an unfortunate incident...involving a spilled drink...that required her to put her pants in the drier within an hour of arriving. So some of our "formal dinner" was done in workout shorts.

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Tomato soup with Christmas Tree croutons. (I made those Christmas Trees!)

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Deviled Eggs. This wasn't on the "official" Southern Living menu, but I'm sure it was an oversight! Every Christmas Dinner has to have Deviled Eggs!

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Group photo by the one and only Leo!

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The beef tenderloin was so yummy - melt in your mouth!

After dinner, we had my yummy Cream Cheese Pecan Cake. I copied the Southern Living illustration, and I have to say...mine was even more beautiful. I used rosemary from my "garden" for decoration.


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Close up of the "embellishments."!!!

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All of the offspring wrestle after dinner...

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We had a wonderful Christmas! The boys loves their loot from Santa, and it's nice to have friends to share the holiday with when family is far away.