Celebrations

My new favorite blogs are always showing beautiful pictures of their parties and preparations.  I thought I'd do the same.

First, I dressed Max's friends.

I doctored the store bouquet for a centerpiece.

The pound cake recipe said to leave the sour cream and butter at room temperature for 30 minutes.  Only a fool would leave that on the counter.

The set table.

À table!

Baby at the table!

Christmas morning- before he was overwhelmed by toys.

I made the macaroni ornament when I was two.  It's the most important decoration on the tree.

My mom made this Christmas outfit.

Overall, Christmas Eve and Christmas were a great success.   The raclette was delicious.  Sara is still my friend after spending Christmas Eve with us.  The baby got just about every age appropriate toy made by Fisher-Price.  My dad proved that he is completely useless, again, because I took him to Toys R Us expressly, so that he could tell me if I was going to buy something that they had already bought and only the fact that they were sold out of my first two choices prevented me from purchasing the same toy because my dad didn't know they already had it or that it was already under the Christmas tree.  I managed to get both my parents' new iPhones working without losing my mother's contacts and helping them both enter the modern age.  I didn't get to sync my dad's 50 songs yet; there wasn't enough time.  And I got new knives!