Baby's First Christmas

Pecan Lace Cookies

Gingerbread with lemon icing

Peanut butter chocolate "DeeDee balls"

Boxing Day breakfast

borrowing Jordan's hat

Love sandwich

Talk about your free range chickens.

Lily with "Santa"

Lily and Papa

Christmas walk

Christmas Night 

One of the MANY close crib games

Wrapped gift for hubs

Family recipe book

It was Lily's first Christmas and as with most children's first Christmases, she didn't know what was going on. She did enjoy all of the company, music and general jolly feeling around the house. I'll start at the top with one of my favourite parts about Christmas; the food. Dan and I were determined to bake everything this year, we spread it out over the week before Christmas and we ended up with a nice variety of goodies. Here's the list; pecan lace cookies, gingerbread trees with lemon icing, peanut butter chocolate balls, white chocolate macadamia nut cookies, sugar and spice candied nuts, almond bark, and eggnog cheese cake bars. Don't worry, we didn't eat it all ourselves, we had about 25 family members over the course of 4 days to help us, although we did eat way too much and we are now on an extended salad binge. We had a lovely sushi dinner with a local tuna for Christmas Eve dinner, a traditional Swiss fondue for Christmas Day and a big turkey dinner with the whole extended family for Boxing Day. Christmas morning was really low key, we did homemade secret santa gifts so there was just one small handmade or vintage find gift for each person. I made Dan a family recipe book with recipes from our grandparents, our parents and our own family favourites and a homemade card with our favourite holiday sentiment "Creamy Hollandaise!".  Lily got two new wooden toys from us: a ball dropper and a shape sorter, a ride on bug from her Nana and Papa, a down quilt from her Grandma and a set of vintage chairs from her aunt and uncle. We went for a lovely winter walk in the sunshine and got some pictures of Lily with "Santa" in their matching jackets (thanks auntie JoJo!). We played lots of cribbage and Cranium over the course of the holidays and spent quiet, quality time with family. Overall it was the perfect quiet and thoughtful Christmas that we intended.