First things first we are so sorry this blog is so late and that the photos are all at the bottom the blog isn't playing ball and we shall sort it out soon as possible hence the delay in the blog being published! Regardless this is an account of our Christmas and we would like to thank everyone who sent us a gift or card we didn't expect it and are so thankful to have such thoughtful family! Here goes:
An early Christmas Day start, our alarm went off at 8 shortly followed by the house being filled with Christmas songs.
A very excited Deb was STILL wrapping Christmas presents in her office and shouted a very excited merry Christmas at us both. We started breakfast which was poached eggs and English muffins which was a good start to the day. Laura wasn't feeling very well today but there was no time for that! Lots of Christmas cooking to be done and that started with a vegetable house. We didn't want a gingerbread house as it would have been too sweet along with our other creations so a vegetable house was decided upon.
Whilst this was being started Deb put Myles in charge of the BBQ, which today had the turkey in it. Very big Job but he only had to keep an eye on the temp so not a hard job either! We spent all morning cooking and creating.
Once the turkey was ready we had our formal Christmas lunch which had, Turkey, pork belly, pumpkin,roast potatoes general veggies and lots of gravy! 
After this the next adventure was to create the 'Melon Train' this is a train that I found on the internet made out of melon and then filled with fruit salad. I got all of the fruit out of the fridge and asked the boys to cut it. This then turned into their project. From that came the competition about who's creation was better. The vegetable house or melon train.
(New poll, which was better melon train or vegetable house?)
Both creations were being made for evening tea when Debs daughter Mel and her husband Kurt arrived for presents. (See photo below of the tree)
Once they both arrived with their dog winter (who was featured in the IFR blog) True Christmas madness begun, as time was getting on Deb was being Santa giving out the gifts from under the tree so everyone had something to open. This continued for a good hour and a half until everything had been opened. Myles and I were spoilt & very excited to open our presents from home. Myles got 100 points for guessing that grandmas present was, a jar of Bovril and I was FAR too excited to see the latest series of top gear in my hands! All presents opened it was time for tidy up and food! Myles and I started to lay out our huge creations whilst filling the gaps with jelly oranges & shots, Father Christmas pavlovas, brownie bite Christmas trees and egg snowmen + lots more! Everybody pulled their Christmas crackers (bonbons if you are an Ozzie) and got finger puppets which were good fun!
Then there was a slight pause as everything looked so pretty no one wanted to eat anything! We made a start with the jellies and then everything else followed nicely. Laura's fizzy blue jellies were a HUGE hit with Mel who now wants to make more at home.
After this it was tidy up and time for bed for Myles as he had a 5:30 start the next day. He said his thank yous and goodbyes and retired to bed. A half hour later he returned in his foti top and explained there was the biggest spider he had ever seen in our room, tried to kill it and lost it. He had put his other clothes in the wash and this was the first thing he could put on. Kurt and I went on a spider hunt and just as we got into the bedroom I saw the biggest spider I have ever seen. Worst part was it was on Myles 2 foot away. I lost it and ran screaming, Myles followed me confused and then managed to tell him it was on him, he flipped out and threw his shirt off. I'm sure he's never taken a shirt off so quickly. Kurt then rescued it and took it outside. It was a huge huntsman and a jolly ugly looking thing! Merry Christmas Myles! He shakily went back to bed and I promised to follow not long after. (Myles went to hit the spider which had then jumped onto his shirt and hidden in it)
Just as I was about to go to bed deb asked me if I understood her chain of presents that were pretty confusing. I had no idea what they were about and had already eaten the apple she gave me. She and Ian then gave me one last present and said that I wasn't meant to get it until I guessed but did anyways as I was ill. It was only a blooming iphone and all of the gifts made sense! I was so overwhelmed I couldn't help but laugh. I was so grateful to be given such a lovely gift I didn't know what to say other than a lot of thank yous. We put Tara to bed and that was about it for our Christmas.
Hope you all had lovely christmas's and sorry about the delay in this blog it was a team effort and with no wifi pretty hard to do!
(P.S it rained the whole of Christmas Day! So much for a hot Ozzie Christmas!!)
Christmas tree brownie bites
Christmas Tara!
Turkey on the BBQ
Laura & top gear
Christmas tea table
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