It's the most wonderful time of the year

Merry Christmas and all that jazz :) I had such a lovely day . . . although, with no blood family relatives, it was very different from Christmas' past. It was the first time my and my boyfriend, Courtney's, families have been together for a holiday event, with his dad just managing to miss the snow issue in London. We also had my parents best friends and thier four lil ladies & granny, and two of my dads' friends . . . making us 19 for Christmas Lunch . . . woah.

I had a great day, present wise :D

From my parents, and Father Christmas, I got a Nikon CoolPix L21 Camera. A 8 mega pixel pink point-and-shoot (which all of the pictures in this post are taken with)

and a Empisal Dressmaker 270D Sewing Machine (for home so that I don't have to transport my Bernina every time I have to sew something)

My sister bought me a beautiful summer-coloured, bright floral maxi dress,

 And from my darling Courtney, I got the most magnificient wooden style wedge sandals :D

petes' christmas shirt

Daniel, my Courtney and his mom

Liz

So after a lovely day of food, champagne and wine, we were all full, happy and tired. Cassie had had enough of the noise, so she took her present and went to sleep on the kitchen floor. Right where we were cleaning . . . Silly puppy.

What I'm wearing

Laced floral-printed chiffon dress - Foschini, pre-Christmas present from my mom

brown lattice pumps - Mr Price

Just a thank you to all who made the day so fantastic. What did you do on Christmas day?

{peace and love}

Twas the night before Christmas

Last night was Christmas Eve, hello, and for a family swap - I went out with my boyfriends' family to a lovely house on the Lakes in Noordehoek . . . very nice plot - leading into the lake. It was the first time I had ever been away from my family on Christmas Eve, though it wasn't that bad :)

On Wednesday, we got a puppy :)
Welcome Cassidy Eden-Jade Kipling :)
She is a Siberian Husky cross German Shepard. She is divine and naughty as all hell.

When we got home, my mom had set up all out special presents under the tree and was ready to go to bed . . . buutttt we had a slight miscommunication . . . and ended up being woken up at 1:45 am, after only getting to sleep at 1:30 . . . and then through-out the night I was woken up . . . I was on Puppy Patrol, and she was sleeping on me :) That plus the excitement of it being Christmas in a few hours . . . It was very hard to try to get to sleep.

So with Chuck guarding the presents, i was able to get a little sleep :) And as the very mature adult I am, was awake at 5:30 am to open my presents :)

hehe

{peace and love}