It's now Christmas Eve. After a dreary, cold, overcast day on the 23rd we awoke to a Carolina blue sky and the trees covered in rime ice creating an peaceful and lovely way to start the holiday weekend.
Here are our guests from Slidell, Louisiana; Iris, Fred and their daughter Felicia.
In the early afternoon more guests arrived. Boo and Tony from Charleston. Tony took some time to read a Cajun Night Before Christmas to Felicia.
I baked a gingerbread house and we got Felicia to decorate. Here she is working hard on her project.
While Felicia was working on her gingerbread house with some help from Iris, Boo and I got into the kitchen and worked on one of the things we do well,,,,,,drinking.
If you have ever spent a weekend on some one's boat and have been lucky enough to be allowed in their galley then you know they can work well in a normal kitchen. So, I put Boo to work. She does very well with one hand constantly occupied.
Later in the day Eddie dropped in with his four children. Here Fred, Eddie and Richard relax near the fire.
Here are Eddie's two sons.
Here is Felicia and Eddie's daughter Kaitlin.
Jessica loves animals and she always enjoys the time she gets to spend with Liliuokalani and Morgan.
Felicia finally finished her gingerbread house. What a work of art!
As dinner time got closer I put Boo in charge of making the Yorkshire Pudding to go with the rib roast.
While dinner was cooking the 6 adults did a Chinese gift exchange. Fred won a Snowman kit, all you had to add was your own snow. He decided to model the hat, scarf and pipe for us.
Note, Richard swapped gifts with Fred since it hardly ever snows in Slidell, Louisiana.
Richard received a really neat bear from Fred and Iris for Christmas. The gold ribbon represents Goldilocks' hair.
When the Yorkshire Pudding came out of the oven it was perfect. A round of applause to Boo and her culinary skills.
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