Thursday, December 25, 2008

Christmas Eve

I had to go into work on Christmas Eve, James was off for the day, and Luca went to daycare. James and I had been talking about traditions that we wanted to start now that we were a family. One thing we wanted to do was bake Christmas Cookies for Santa every Christmas Eve, but we had left it a bit too late this year.

Have I mentioned how great James is? While I was at work and he was running around town doing last minute errands, he also baked us some cookies for Santa. I would have been happy with just some 'out of the box' cookies, but he actually looked up a recipie on the internet and decorated them himself as a suprise for me. Yeah, they look a bit wierd, but they tasted awesome (at least that's what Santa told me...)

I got off work at noon, and we took the opportunity to both go to the gym while Luca was in daycare. Then it was off to the beach to start the festivities....
We had a really awesome BBQ dinner at Jo and Bruce's house (James parents). James' brother and James' cousin Cadyn was also there. Look at Luca trying to look under the table cloth...funny, eh? The little boy got his first taste of steak and cheesecake. Yeah, you guessed it. He LOVED it.






Present time! James and I got season tickets to the local professional theatre in town (very cool gift) and Luca got lots of beachy type things, a great walker, and this pop up play tent to crawl around it.





After all the excitement it was back to Palmerston North to wait for Santa's arrival the next morning.









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