So that's Christmas, and 2008, over! We had a quiet day, spent the morning at home with Sophs (who decided 6am would be a fab time to wake up), completely underestimated how long it would take to do pressies, eat breakfast, call home, get ready and head over to Stu's sister's for lunch. Still don't know where the morning disappeared to! Sophs had a mountain of presents (bordering on the obscene in quantity, we saved some for the next day) and had a grand time ripping paper off and playing with the packaging ;) Her favourite presents were a mini keyboard from Stu and I and a toy dog in a pink handbag from her Aussie Nan, although she has enjoyed playing with all the presents she received! Stu bought me the most beautiful cookbook called 'Venezia' - recipes from Venice and it is filled with magnificent photography and scrumptious recipes - it's my kind of cookbook, as it uses instructions such as 'some wine' and 'feeds a lot of people' :)

The downside to not doing Christmas lunch at home is there are no leftovers to snack on! Stu did however make his coca cola ham for Boxing Day which was delish. And I made a pumpkin risotto from my new cookbook which was sublime :)

More pics from Christmas day are here.