Well, Christmas was a while ago. It’s kinda old news at this point, but if you have any residual holiday spirit left you might enjoy these pictures…
Here’s our cute little tree. We didn’t bring any kind of holiday decorations with us but we couldn’t go without. Especially not with guests staying over. We picked up this mini-tree and trimming then made the star ourselves from felt and silver glitter hot glue. The little birds covering it are our favorite. As you can see, though we are far from home, our families sent us some holiday cheer.
We’ve just opened gifts from Matt’s brother, Michael. See how happy alpaca wool hats and The Tick on DVD make us? Thanks everyone for the calendars, the shirts, the gift cards, the tea and the television shows on little plastic discs!
Since we have a fireplace here we decided we needed a fire on Christmas morning. We got one of those fake logs and it burned cheerily away for most of the morning. Asher wisely kept a safe distance.
Neha helped make bread. This was the honey-oat bread that we make often. This time it was perfect. It’s quite possibly the best loaf of bread we’ve ever made. We also had spicy chili and coconut corn, sage butter on green beans and red potatoes, a mozzarella and tomato salad and, for the entrée, eggplant lasagna. It’s our own recipe using grilled eggplant slices
instead of noodles. Neha made our dessert all by herself. It was a cheesecake made from a cake mix. She picked it out of
The Cake Mix Doctor, which is a fabulous book. It’s not my any means a typical Christmas dinner, but when have we ever been typical?
It rained most of the morning. That’s as white of a Christmas as Phoenix can manage. In the evening, though, the rain petered out, the setting sun shown through the clouds and we were treated to a vibrant Christmas rainbow.
Here’s our cute little tree. We didn’t bring any kind of holiday decorations with us but we couldn’t go without. Especially not with guests staying over. We picked up this mini-tree and trimming then made the star ourselves from felt and silver glitter hot glue. The little birds covering it are our favorite. As you can see, though we are far from home, our families sent us some holiday cheer.
We’ve just opened gifts from Matt’s brother, Michael. See how happy alpaca wool hats and The Tick on DVD make us? Thanks everyone for the calendars, the shirts, the gift cards, the tea and the television shows on little plastic discs!
Since we have a fireplace here we decided we needed a fire on Christmas morning. We got one of those fake logs and it burned cheerily away for most of the morning. Asher wisely kept a safe distance.
Neha helped make bread. This was the honey-oat bread that we make often. This time it was perfect. It’s quite possibly the best loaf of bread we’ve ever made. We also had spicy chili and coconut corn, sage butter on green beans and red potatoes, a mozzarella and tomato salad and, for the entrée, eggplant lasagna. It’s our own recipe using grilled eggplant slices instead of noodles. Neha made our dessert all by herself. It was a cheesecake made from a cake mix. She picked it out of The Cake Mix Doctor, which is a fabulous book. It’s not my any means a typical Christmas dinner, but when have we ever been typical?
It rained most of the morning. That’s as white of a Christmas as Phoenix can manage. In the evening, though, the rain petered out, the setting sun shown through the clouds and we were treated to a vibrant Christmas rainbow.
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