Up The Farway Tree

 Christmas!

We have had a lovely (and very busy) festive week!   We arrived at mum and dads last weekend so I had the whole of Christmas eve to run around getting excited ;-)  I met up with my friends on Christmas eve morning then got increasingly excited as the day went on!  We went to the vigil Mass then watched Muppet Christmas Carol (still by far my favourite Christmas film) then off to bed ready for Santa.

I have to admit to waking Andrew at 6.20am to open our stockings, then after waking mum and dad with 'morning has broken' on the keyboard, I had them up at 6.40am.  Oops!!   As usual I was utterly and completely spoilt, with mum choosing lots of lovely clothes for me...and a lovely little red riding hood duffle coat :-)   Myself and Andrew had decided to get ourselves an SLR camera as a joint present but we kept it until Christmas day so it was like the paparazzi when we were opening presents and Andrew kept clicking away..!  He had also chosen me other surprise presents including a really lovely leather bag with an owl and butterfly design...two of my favourite things ;-)    Mum and dad were really pleased with their presents and especially liked the 2013 Seb calendar.  Uncle Hugh then arrived and we had a lovely meal, opened my handmade crackers with selected jokes for each person,  and then ate my favourite pudding!  

 On Boxing day we went down to Anne and Johns as usual, for our Christmas dinner no 2!  Great to see everyone and just had a nice chilled time.  Anne always puts extra little presents on the table so I got some fab mavala nail polishes!  We all got into our jammies to watch TV...apart from John who refused to put on his superman pj's hahahahaha!

We were then visiting some friends in Manchester friday and saturday and had a lovely time before heading back to mum and dads!  We now have three days of new year celebrations ahead with Anne and John coming tomorrow for Hogmanay and New Year and a big family get together on the 2nd.  Then back to work on Thursday.  Work?  What's that?!!