Christmas 2010

I never got around to posting about our Christmas so I thought . . . .better late than never. We had a wonderful Christmas! My parents were here, we enjoyed some wonderful food, were blessed with some amazing gifts and just enjoyed spending time together!!

I'll start with Christmas Eve {I posted more about Christmas Eve and some of our Christmas decorations a few weeks ago, you can view that post here.} We went to church, came home, ate some goodies, then we opened a few gifts. Every Christmas Eve we open gifts with my family and it's ALWAYS new Christmas pj's!!

{Present time!!!}

{My lil bro & I love The Christmas Story and watch it a ton when it comes on for 24hours on Christmas Eve. We've been doing it for years! This year, I found his Christmas pj's and knew they would be perfect, they said "You'll Shoot Your Eye Out Kid . . ."

{Mike laughing . . . . so cute!!}

{Me and one of the 2 pairs of my cute, new pj's!}

{Mom opening her new Ralph Lauren pajamas that Dad got her}

{Look what my Dad got . . . . "You'll Shoot Your Eye Out" boxers, ha ha ha! It was hilarious!!}

{Me & Mr. Big on Christmas morning}

{Our stockings!}

{M loves globes and I gave him a mini globe in his stocking - he was being silly here}

{Dad opening some gifts!]

{My lil bro sportin some of his new clothes as he opened more.}

{M popped up behind me and surprised me with this amazing painting that I had seen a few months before and fell in love with! I was SO excited!!}

{The aftermath}

{M's parents gave us a new TV - SO not expecting it, but such a great surprise!! My dad, M and my bro were putting it up. Look at my dads legs sticking out behind the mantel, ha ha}

{Me & my lil bro enjoyin some champagne before Christmas brunch}

{He was ready to eat!}

{My painting went in our bedroom. Not on the wall yet, but going to be soon! I LOVE it!!}

{Later that night Mom and I were getting ready for Christmas dinner. She baked a red velvet cake and I put together shrimp cocktails for all of us to enjoy before dinner. It's a tradition at our house to have shrimp cocktails on Christmas night}

{I decorated my table with ornaments, bits of garland, my china, and candles}

{One of my clients is a winery called Crown Winery. I took my Mom there before Christmas and we stocked up on wine. We got this one, called Royal Red and saved it to have with our Christmas dinner. I thought the name was fitting for the occasion!}

{Salad with our traditional Christmas dressing, Green Goddess dressing. My Mom started the tradition of having this dressing over 25 years ago. We've had it ever since I can remember. It's basically like Ranch, and sooo good!}

{Dinner Time}

{Mom's famous Beef Wellington, which she has also been making for over 25 years. Love this tradition!! She used to always take the rest of the pastry and use a bell cookie cutter and put bells on top I LOVED getting a bell off of the Wellington when I was a little girl!! This year, we found a star cookie cutter and since my parents live in Texas now, we thought we would change the tradition up a bit, and start a new one and put stars on top. I loved how it turned out!.}

{Me and my little bro! We had a great Christmas and were ready for the New Year when his band came up from Nashville and played here in Memphis - that post with be coming soon!}