Christmas Eve and Christmas

Christmas Eve day started out shopping with the rest of the people that waited to the last minute to do all their food shopping - I'm guessing to get everything as fresh as possible. It was a bit crazy and Jamie handled most of it, he's good like that. Annmarie and I baked for Santa and we kept things simple the rest of the day. For dinner we had prawns and Aussie chorizo (which is different from the chorizo you get in the States). 

And a pumpkin salad.

We ate dinner outside, after we put Ben to sleep. We love you to bits Ben, but as dinner guest you are far too demanding.

We had these cookies and pumpkin bars for dessert.
Annmarie was very excited for Santa and colored a picture and of course left him cookies and milk, however I didn't take any pictures of this.

Christmas morning flew by as the kids tore through their gifts.

With the big hit being the bubble machine. Unfortunately, it rained Christmas day so we resorted to the garage for testing out the machine. Maybe the best $20 I've (I mean Santa) ever spent.

It's pretty awesome, it blow bubbles inside bubbles.

We grilled a huge leg of ham. We had ham for days.

A salad.  Potatoes, green beans and asparagus - not pictured.  We did have an early Christmas dinner so Ben joined us.

We had a Christmas Pavlova for dessert. 

It was a fab day and it was wonderful having family here.