With ‘Mini M’ fast approaching, Lara is too far gone through her pregnancy to be able to fly.  So this meant that everyone came up to us!  This was out first family Xmas in our house.  Probably as we never had a house big enough to fit the family in.

We had Frank, Caryn, Tallie and Chester up.  New years eve was spent with some more friends Euan, Lainie and Rich coming around, we played a few games of articulate with boys versus girls, we found that the girls were far more articulate than us,  even with our powers of cheating the blokes could still not win!  We also did the old wife’s tale of the gold ring and a piece of string dangled over Lara’s head then the bump.  Well I can tell you that this test does nto work, it showed us that it was going to be a girl….. and we all know it is going to be a boy!  So anyone out there who is thinking about trying to determine their baby’s gender don’t bother with this technique.

Xmas day came, and I thought that I was a child again as I was up at silly oclock to go for my xmas morning bike ride before everyone else go up.  Chester and Rich came along as well.  There is still loads of snow at the moment so it was quite fun and a unique bike ride for a xmas morning.  It was -8 and for some reason lovely. It was only a short ride around the woods behind out our house for a few laps to make sure we got home before everyone else stirred.  We started off in darkness and the sun rose as we went around.  We nearly had to stop and hold hands at one point.  Below is Chester ‘enduring’.

When we got home no one was up yet……  I think this could have something to do with the previous nights over endulgance!  Lara was up first and we set about getting the turkey in the oven.  Lara had great fun getting the stuffing up the poor turkey!  She was not gentle.

Then came the various others coming down in assorted xmas gear…..

I felt under dressed in my traditional Xmas day shorts.  We soon all had breakfast and set about the presents.  I got a great presents this year, thank you all for your generous gifts.  But I think Lara was the clear winner this year!  Just look at it all!!!!!

Then we started drinking and it all got a bit fuzzy.  What I do know was it was as always a great day and we thoroughly enjoyed it.  I love xmas and look forward to the next one already!