I will say that this was one of the best Christmases my family has had. It started early Christmas Morning with my Ma, and Zach and Si. We all slowly opened gifts...
Then my dear brother cooked us all a delicious breakfast and I began cooking supper.
Sometime in the afternoon our people began to arrive...
And somehwere in between all that I got changed into this fancy-shmancy outfit...
Dinner went perfectly. This was the first year that I didn't stress out at all...this school thing is really paying off!I don't have many pictures of the dinner, except this blurry one...
It was a wonderful day. And Boxing Day was just as good. A little shopping, yes, I do go to the mall, and then more time with some of my favorite people.Here's to many more Christmases as sparkly and happy as this one!
But alas, they didn't have one! It was quite a traumatic thing. But they located one for us in 
When we got there we were so happy! Any of you who went out today will know what we are talking about!
And when we saw that ice cream maker sitting on the shelf...
We couldn't contain the 
We made sure it was what we wanted...
Ha! Of course we wanted it! We hadn't travelled across the universe for nothing!
As soon was we got back home we started putting it together.
and a few hearty laughs...
But we got it together. And we realized that the ice cream bowl had to be frozen for 12 hours...we froze it for 2 hours. We were determined to eat ice cream today...even if we ended up kinda drinking it. 
Thankfully Earl rescued them from the clutches of the oven...and they tasted pretty good!
Our ice cream was drippy since the bowl was not nearly frozen long enough...but the 
It was quite festive and it was so fun listening to Christmas songs and putting up old and new decorations...
...while these two hooligans played cards on the floor.
Making meatballs with a loved one. It's says alot about our friendship if she is willing to stick her hands into freezing cold ground beef for me....
*Post to follow about decorating the Christmas tree!
