Christmas Fun

Well it has been quite an exhausting first week on holidays - starting with giving the girls their Christmas presents from us early, so they could play with them before we went back to Goulburn. Jasmin got a new big bike - it is 16 inches tall, and has a great basket on the front of it for carrying dollies. We got Eliza two smaller presents - a peddle bike of her own and also a Zebra toy thingie. We didn't think to build Eliza's bike the night before - kind of thought that it would come out of the box mostly assembled, but it didn't. Eliza had fun trying to help Daddy build it.

Back to Goulburn on the Sunday for Julie and Leslie's Annual Christmas Eve cocktail party, which is always lots of fun. This year Big Les got dressed up as Santa Claus - I think everyone sat on his lap!

Santa was very clever and managed to find the girls santa sacks at Julie's place (we gave him special instructions on where to find us). Jasmin had lots of fun opening up her presents from Santa - one of her favourites is a Fairytopia Barbie doll with sparkly wings.

Christmas Day was the normal over-eating food fest. Starting with our extended Family - our brother-in-laws parents place for breakfast - bacon, eggs, baked beans, home-made raspberry and banana bread - yum.

This was followed by Christmas lunch at Evan (Dave's brother) and his fiance Jane's place. They were very excited to host Christmas Day in their new house.

Dinner was at my parent's place, where Eliza spotted the lollie bowl as soon as she walked in the door and parked herslef on the seat in front of them. Every year we open our presents before dinner, it starts out quite orderly, and by the end is just complete chaos - must be a factor of how many little and big kids are there!

Boxing Day is always with our friends - Ginny and Paul in Goulburn. This has been a tradition for as long as I can remember, and one that we always look forward to. The kids had a great time playing hide-and-seek, and then swimming in their new in-ground pool. The girls had lots of fun. Eliza just wanted to swim around by herself - a little bit of a problem, since she cannot swim. Jasmin was impressed that she could touch the bottom of the pool at the shallow end.