The Day AFTER Christmas . . . okay, and Christmas Night, Too . . .

Our house has been bursting with goodies for weeks now . . . you may have noticed the lack of birthday cake pics for C's big day. She asked for angel food cake with strawberries, nice and summery for a December birthday :) But she said we could wait til Christmas day because we didn't have any other dessert plans. Such a low-key kid; she got her birthday song at about 8 p.m. and we all enjoyed a taste of summer (only with defrosted frozen strawberries instead of fresh :)

Buck also thought it would be fun to dress the dog up festively . . . the dog did not so much agree . . . :)

We generally eat something strange on Christmas, and this year it was wings, roasted cauliflower, and bread from my new bread machine! Little Buddy decided this would make excellent left overs and filled himself a plate for lunch the next day!

The kids also worked on enjoying some of their Christmas gifts. Here's G doing a little sculpting from his brother's gift to him, Gab showing off her coloring style, and C too after Gab agreed to share :)

And finally, perhaps you recall our dog is not overly fond of balloons. And perhaps I haven't mentioned that our son is particularly fond of drawing faces on balloons. So I am still fairly amazed that our dog was brave enough to risk eating his dinner with this oh so friendly visitor just steps from his dish :)