Friday, February 21, 2014

Christmas and New Years2013

 It was the time of the year for the annual church party- and another party to decorate with a 0 dollar budget. It's always a challenge, but we had a lot of fun this year. We decided we would try to create a winter wonderland in the woods... so we went to the foothills and collected dead branches, chestnuts, greenery, logs etc. This is the "table scape," always better in person...

 The decorated branches... ah, what a headache, but turned out really nice when the lights were out.

 I think the stage decorations were my favorite when they were done.


 And, Steve added falling snow on a projector on the stage.... done and done :)

 The big ticket items for Christmas morning included a gigantic barbie house for Emilie that she has wanted for practically the whole year, trucks/cars for Sebastian, joke book for Maddie which she loved and read to us for weeks and sky chair for the girls' room- what kid doesn't want a swing for their room???

 New Years is always a Surf and Turf cornocopia... and this year may have been the best. Steve got himself a membership to a restaurant depo store (Costco on acid for restaurant owners), and bought crab legs, filet minon, and ridiculous sized stuff... but it was soooo soooo soooo good.

 This is why there are food photographers. This photo is so bad, but the food was so good! Steve made his family bread recipe- yum, filet minon, tomato and basil salad, fruit salad....ah! I love food.

Cheers!