Christmas Day

Hurray for Christmas Day! As predicted, the kids woke up at 5-something and went downstairs to see if Santa had come (which he had, of course). They piled into their stockings and watched cartoons for a couple of hours ... there were several begging trips upstairs to try and rouse the adults so the present opening could begin. But last night there was much discussion about how to cook the turkey. We had been following Nigella's soaking recipe and her cooking advice is much shorter and hotter than the Lewis family's traditional way of cooking... so there was much controversy over how to proceed. Here are Rhodri and Trefor looking uncertain as they get ready to stuff the big guy...
And then Rhodri expressing the success of the cooking attempt by following Nigella's instruction
Trefor is now a converted fan of Nigella!
I don't have any photos of the kids opening presents, but it was a truly exciting morning/early afternoon. Rhiannon got the double baby stroller that she had been wishing for from Santa, and Tryfan got a Hot Wheels Racetrack (which he didn't even know he was wishing for) from Santa as well as some Ninjago Lego. In fact, Tryfan got 3 Ninjago Lego things as well as a big Star Wars Lego thing and he was SO excited about them that when he opened the 3rd of 4 Lego thingies, he stomped his foot and put his hands on hips and said "I just cannot believe it!".
Here is the Christmas Dinner scene when we ate around 1:30pm.
Me and Nia
Rhodri and Taid
Then after dinner we (Rhodri, Taid, Nia, Bentley and I) went for a walk in the forest
When we got back from the walk we had some of the gorgeous Christmas Cake that Beryl had made. It was sooooo delicious. Here she is about to cut it with Sioned and Valentin and I watching.
So overall it was a lovely Christmas!