Christmas 2012 - let's start at the beginning ...

 Christmas just didn't seem right to me this year.  The girls only came home in the week and days before Christmas so I just couldn't get in the mood.

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 Christmas flowers for the Nana's ...

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 The tree was only decorated on Saturday before Christmas...  I let Kirby do it this year, with me supervising.

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 I decorated gingerbread biscuits...

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 They turned out pretty cool...

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 Brianna made pavlovas for dessert...

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 So unorganised, I was up at 6.30am Christmas morning, wrapping presents to go under the tree!

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 We had fun opening presents!

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 I made salads to take to my nieces for lunch.  This is the Watermelon, cucumber, mint & fetta salad from Julie Goodwin - it was delicious!  I bought the white balsamic glaze when I was in Adelaide, haven't seen it in shops here yet.

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 This was the huge spread of food we had for lunch... which was sadly marred by the fact my 82 year old Mum took a fall just as she was arriving...She gashed her hand very badly on the rough pavers and had to go to hospital to have it dressed.  Unfortunately, the bleeding wouldn't stop and she eventually was taken by ambulance to our regional centre hospital (50kms away) and had the vein stitched and spent the night in hospital.  Crappiest Christmas ever!

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 Meanwhile, back to the day ... my stuffing muffins were enjoyed by all and look at that Crayfish platter!  Yummo!

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 More food!

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 Mum's Christmas Pudding with custard - traditional dessert for us.

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Cousins playing on the new trampoline ...

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 Brianna's pavlova ...

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 Big cousins cuddling baby second cousins...

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 Bubble blowing...

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 More present giving...

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 Then it was out to Gus' sister's for Christmas dinner... nice and relaxed.

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 More presents...

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 Bri played Santa ...

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My beautiful girls!

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Joolz