xmas 07

this angel ate all the christmas pies.  i think jane’s de-knickerating the house tomorrow, so thought i’d put up the last few deccy photos.  (if you want to know about the knickerations, see here)

this is the sister of the angel that appears on our christmas card (and the christmas vouchers) this year.  the actual angel was on the tree.  this one is on a stick which katie (in the background) was holding.  special thanks to katie’s family for letting me use their angelic tree icon this year.

and kezia’s new dressing grown made her look like santa doing a repeat visit to the tree

tired adults, lively children

jane’s dad caused laughing mayhem by saying the christmas cake had icing and christmas ‘knickerations’.  he probably didn’t actually say that, but jane repeated it and tears of laughter ensured.

when we finally saw it, we were very impressed by the kickerations, although there was some tree subsidance

kezia reset them like some cosmic anti-lumberjack

it did look (and taste very good)

so that’s the story of the christmas cake and knickerations.

a pile of tasty traditions

kezia and esther were first to the table

my plate (not featuring parsnips (or the other sort of stuffing which i forgot to add)

a day that warrants three exclamation marks in the title !

and seeing as everyone else on the planet has done this, so have we  we’ve deliberately used dreadful photos of ourselves just in case you are worried !

poignant thoughts for christmas day.  it’s a jesus statue in an old bin bag.  no room at the inn.

there’s been lots of church services recently.  that happens around christmas.  we’re halfway through the last 4 though, and it’s great to meet together around christmas.  the church looks a bit empty in this picture as all the kids and the kids teachers had left for their groups.

did mary really wear this much make-up ?

pouty shepherd

there were a couple of real sheep wandering around in this life-sized nativity in Belgium’s grande place. generally quite bizarre.

yesterday was the first day the girls and i had a chance to go and chop down our christmas treet

off we went boldly in to the ‘forest’ to select our tree

can you see kezia in this picture ?

once we’d chosen our tree we then got to work chopping it down

unfortunately the one we chose was half dead – but we only discovered once we’d dragged it home which was a big disappointment (20 pounds worth of disappointment to be exact).  i chopped the dead bits off and now it’s a christmas stick.  oh well – something to watch out for next year.

this would make a good xmas story about a vacuum cleaner who nobody loves left to wander the streets at christmas time.

it probably has a happy ending or something.

or perhaps it doesn’t