Christmas v.2.0

My second Christmas!

It had been declared the Christmas of hats.

Almost everyone here got a hat. 

From different people. Just by chance.

Including me!

It was a very good Christmas.

Everyone had fun.

There was turkey, of course.

And table decorations. You have no idea how much time and pain is involved in making a star out of holly.

My fingers. They hurt.

Many games were played.

Many gifts were opened.

 

Which made everyone very happy.

And everyone of course had to do the usual 'wear everything you are given at once' thing.

I already had my mum's gifts to me on, including my awesome Joules jumper.

But I think this was my favourite gift - the bracelet + beads!

Hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas!

xXx

One Christmas down...

...still one to go.

We had our family 'fake' Christmas on Monday before I ran off to Memphis. Nothing like Christmas dinner the way you're used to it, of course. And it's only with your own parents that you can make such particular demands as which kind (or kinds, in my case) of stuffing there's going to be.

As much as I was sad to wave goodbye to the 100% chance of a white Christmas at home, I have to say I've kind of had enough of snow by now. For this year, anyway. I'm not sure if that means I'm old now, or just that I spend too much time having to break ice and defrost pipes for the ponies.

Ricki desperately wants to be an indoor pony right now.

Domino does not approve of the snow either.

Although he appreciates that it's good for his image.

We did, however, get out to Memphis without a hitch! Which is something of a miracle, if you ask me. Boyfriend's sister, who flew the day before us, had a 30 hour journey punctuated with a sleep on the floor of Minneapolis airport. You have no idea how grateful I am that Heathrow appeared to have its act together by Tuesday, or that we hadn't booked for the earlier flight that got cancelled. Luck was on our side!

Enjoy the new background - Merry Christmas!