Christmas Day

We had a wonderful Christmas Day! Rhiannon's gift to us was that she slept in until 08:10 am! When she woke up, she wanted to wear the red Christmas hat which was way too small for her but made her look even more like a pixie.
We had a relaxing morning of opening presents and talking to Rhodri's family on the web cam, and then we headed over to our friends Sarah and Patrick's house. They have 3 kids aged 7, 5 and 18 months and they also have a dog, so we were quite a full and chaotic house (we brought Bentley of course)! We brought the turkey with stuffing and sausage, a sweet potato casserole, and a raspberry-apple pie, and they provided everything else. Here is Rhiannon on the digger-excavator that she loved playing with at their house:
The mandatory family photo
We stayed at their house all day - from noon until 7:45 pm - and it was so wonderful. It was so nice to do whatever we wanted to and to share the kid-chaos with our friends without worrying about spilled juice or broken tree ornaments. We did learn that Rhiannon loves eating ham. She sat quietly at the dinner table munching on piece after piece of gammon ham, with a few carrots interspersed.

It started snowing sometime in the afternoon so by the time we drove home we had about an inch, and by the next morning we had a couple of inches. A wonderful Christmas Day!