Tuesday, January 4, 2011

(The Day After) Christmas in the DG

Since we ended up staying in Urbana an extra day, we ended up having our Christmas dinner on the day after Christmas.


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The stockings were hung by the heater with care...
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Hubs started the party by posing with "Joey" in front of the Christmas tree (Suckling pig for New Year's. Long story.).


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Sorry to those of you who are faint of heart!



Come to think of it, posing with raw meat in front of the tree became pretty popular.
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Before dinner, we opened presents. You may notice a few things here:
1. Our mouths are open a lot. This is due to us all screaming "OHHHHHHH!!!!" as we open every. single. present.
2. Braddy and Hubs got matching marshmallow guns (awwww) from Boochie, so there are a lot of marshmallows in the background of these shots. Everywhere. (Still.)
3. The Hawaiian shirt made another appearance at yet another family gathering.


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Notice: Hawaiian shirt, mouth open
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Braddy's sniper head shot
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Action shot
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Notice: mouth open
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Notice: mouth open
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Notice: mouth open
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Boochie was really, really happy about this rug (if you couldn't tell)
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Notice: Hubs is shooting marshmallows over our balcony, braddy is loading ammo
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Notice: Hubs is still shooting marshmallows outside, and Braddy is aiming for me
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Notice:  marshmallows EVERYWHERE
After presents, we sat down to an AMAZING prime rib dinner.
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Notice: wedding crystal!
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Braddy and his 4-stitch thumb
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DROOLLLLL...prime ribbbbbb
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A toast to a wonderful Christmas dinner
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Salad greens with candied walnuts
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Prime rib, sauteed spinach, and roasted garlic mashed potatoes
Before everyone went home for the night (and before Braddy dropped an entire box of presents behind him on the way out), we played our old time favorite - CATCHPHRASE!!
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1 comment:

  1. oh man, i'm still dreaming about salted beef crust. it was sooo good. We'll definitely have to do this again.

    The link doesn't work for more photos :( if you have them, can you send me the link please!

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