Merry Christmas!

We had our now-traditional Christmas eve celebration; we went to church with friends and then back to our house for snacks. This year the group consisted of our friends Raeleen and Will. We hit a small speed bumb when we returned from Church and Mojo had broked out of the bedroom and put himself right on the top of the naughty list by opening presents, his and other peoples!

But we quickly got back on track getting food on the table. Raeleen made a Christmas tree shaped brownie and an amazing pizza sandwich! Yumm! We had the traditional bacon wrapped chestnuts plus cucumber sandwiches, Jeff's Buffalo chicken dip, cheese & sausage and crackers plus veggies (more to make us feel good about the table than for eating!) Top that all off with hot spiced cider and call it Christmas Eve! No one saved room for pumpkin pie, so we had to send it out in doggie bags!

After Mojo's adventures which included eating half a box of chocolate covered cherries (he spit the cherries out) he was WIRED and literally RACING around the house on his sugar high. But Will finally got him calmed down and when he crashed, he crashed HARD.

We celebrated Christmas with my family on Saturday with a ham and all the trimmings, and after all the Christmas eve indulgances, we slept in Christmas morning. Surprisingly, the puppies let us! (Mojo was probably still suffering from a sugar hang-over!)

Santa was good to all of us and we enjoyed opening our presents and then watching Christmas movies. I got some new cook-books from Anita, Jeff and Ashley along with a suggestion of Jeff's favorite rib recipe which we tried for Christmas dinner. Ribs in a slow cooker with a spiced peach barbecue sauce all day - It was a great suggestion!

All in all we enjoyed a lovely day relaxing and snuggling on the couch with only a small dread to Pete having to return to work "all the earlier" the next day.