Christmas 2008

HO HO HO

This Christmas was a real 'fly in, fly out affair, what with our skiing trip starting on the 26th and me working up until the 23rd. Mart picked us up at Gatwick. Our flight took 50 minutes, the wait for our luggage was longer - not just ours, everyones. Thank God I had my cellphone or Mart would have thought we missed the flight.

Anyhoo, we got there in the end.
Inge spoilt us rotten and we had a super meal everytime we sat down to eat. Roast lamb... doh! Drooled on the keyboard at the thought.

Jake's a bit older now so he kinda makes sense, although he's still a bit shy. This was him with his pink sheep. Every boy should have a pink sheep.



Kiara is of course, also uber cute - or was she just being REALLY good cos Father Christmas was visiting that evening?

The biggest surprise of the trip was not the cool prezzies we got from the fam again, but the fact that the kids let us sleep in this year - only waking us up at abou 7am. What a bonus! Kiara, of course, was first to the tree.

And she got just what she wanted! A baby born doll. It wasn't long before the doll was going number one all over the house!



Jake, content to play with his sheep at first, warmed to his train set thingy-majigy
(bob the builder) and ignored our gift. Rat! That's okay, last year he just played with the wrapping paper. At least cath and I played with his toy!

Inge helped Jake put the trainline together. Note the tongue out the mouth thing. Cath does that too when she hits her forehand, etc. Maybe it's an accountant thing? Louis?

Mart opens his Dara O'Briein DVD from us.
Lucky fish.

And Cath with her prezzie of creams, oils and lotions.