Christmas Dinner was a feast! (We had worked up quite the appetite from opening all those gifts.) We started out with shrimp cocktail - we placed homemade cocktail sauce in a martini glass and then placed the shrimp around the rim of the glass. Then we had a fantastic salad with apple, blue cheese, toasted walnuts and a lemon
vinaigrette, followed by a pasta course with
penne, pork and meatballs in a homemade sauce, courtesy of Chef Bill. The main entree was lamb and roasted veggies. It was all so delicious! There were tons of cookies and cream puffs for dessert. And we even used the 'fine' china.
Family portrait by the Christmas Tree.
The girls with Mimi & Poppi and Taty & Captain
Ruby & Taty
Luci looking way older to me than 3.
Ruby snuggling on the couch with Daddy.
Paw-Paw and Qing sent Luci this beautiful and cozy sleeping bag. She loves it - almost immediately, she wanted to play camping and build a fort with it. We are hoping that she will get to use it on a true camping adventure some time this Spring/Summer - we have a great tent that we have never used outside of our backyard.
One of the best gifts that Kai and I received was a new SLR camera - a Nikon d3100 from my parents. It is awesome! We were getting so frustrated with our point &
shoot's inability to take good pictures. Taking pictures of children is not an easy task and we are so excited to now have a MUCH better tool to help us. I will be taking a class (another Christmas present) at the Nikon school in the Spring to hopefully master the use of this camera. For now, we are having a great time snapping photos. The quality of pictures on this blog should be improved from this blog post and on.
Christmas Dinner was a feast! (We had worked up quite the appetite from opening all those gifts.) We started out with shrimp cocktail - we placed homemade cocktail sauce in a martini glass and then placed the shrimp around the rim of the glass. Then we had a fantastic salad with apple, blue cheese, toasted walnuts and a lemon vinaigrette, followed by a pasta course with penne, pork and meatballs in a homemade sauce, courtesy of Chef Bill. The main entree was lamb and roasted veggies. It was all so delicious! There were tons of cookies and cream puffs for dessert. And we even used the 'fine' china. 
Family portrait by the Christmas Tree.
The girls with Mimi & Poppi and Taty & Captain
Ruby & Taty
Luci looking way older to me than 3.
Ruby snuggling on the couch with Daddy.
Paw-Paw and Qing sent Luci this beautiful and cozy sleeping bag. She loves it - almost immediately, she wanted to play camping and build a fort with it. We are hoping that she will get to use it on a true camping adventure some time this Spring/Summer - we have a great tent that we have never used outside of our backyard.
One of the best gifts that Kai and I received was a new SLR camera - a Nikon d3100 from my parents. It is awesome! We were getting so frustrated with our point & shoot's inability to take good pictures. Taking pictures of children is not an easy task and we are so excited to now have a MUCH better tool to help us. I will be taking a class (another Christmas present) at the Nikon school in the Spring to hopefully master the use of this camera. For now, we are having a great time snapping photos. The quality of pictures on this blog should be improved from this blog post and on.
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