We stayed up late on Christmas eve, and, since we were going to be out all day Christmas day, we decided to open all of our presents after midnight.  It was good fun and we got some great stuff!

Col opened first, our Giants game-worn jersey from Helena and James, he opened it, I shrieked.  It wasn’t pretty, I’m not proud of it, but I haz a new gamer!

And I got a t-shirt that I was lusting over when Helena came to visit! SCORE!

Col clearly happy that Seb is on the cover!

Angry birds game anyone?

I got me some Le Creuset!!

To entertain us while we unwrapped our presents, we watched both Sister Act 1 and Sister Act 2 (complete with loud singing and the occasional booty shake!) and hit the sack before 3am!

Our phone rang at 7.30am, t’was my sister, wishing us happy Christmas! We called the rest of my family, chatted for a while, got up, had a light breakfast and headed to Magz and Sams where we overindulged in croissants and bucks fizz.

I held little Eve while the rest of the Maddens/Wrights opened their stockings, and I helped Eve open hers!

Reading Eve one of her new books!

Around noon, we headed upstairs and sat around the tree.  Each person took a turn to open a present (with some of us opening Eve’s presents as we went!)

After our present opening, we came downstairs for dinner, smoked salmon with brown bread kick-started the meal (it was deeeelicious!), chicken, ham, beef wellington, potatoes, stuffing, veggies – the lot!  It was delicious!

After dinner, we had dessert – which was, out of this world!! We had lemon tart and/or chocolate pots.  I could have licked the dishes!

Christmas at the Maddens household was wonderful, the food was great, the company was great, Eve was adorable and the presents rocked!

Col pretty much had to roll me home! I’ve no idea how he had the energy to go home and play on the Wii fit that my lion cub got us for Christmas, but he played for a while!

It’s safe to say, I had a wonderful Christmas.  Santa was very good to me, adding to both my KitchenAid collection and my Le Creuset collection which means I’m going to have a great year of cooking ahead of me!