Making Our Home: Christmas 2011

Christmas certainly crept up on us this year. I (Zeke here) have been pretty busy at work and Jess and Liam have spent the last couple of months getting everything perfect at home. In between Liam becoming bilingual and him studying for the MCATs (he wants to be a rocket surgeon--we're so proud), time just flew by. Can't believe we've been here almost three months. We also managed to go on some cool trips as you have probably already seen in previous blog entries. It was a fantastic Christmas though; good times, good food and good friends all throughout the Holiday season. Hope you all had a great Christmas / Holiday season and we pray that 2012 brings you all the happiness you deserve (hey real estate/stock market...this is your cue to shape up). By the way, I'm officially announcing my candidacy for the 2028 presidential election so if anyone has any dirt on me, let's hear it now. I figure 16 years is enough time to put a positive spin on it.

Liam is soooo excited for Christmas, we had to give him a helmet to protect him from his holiday shenanigans

"Twas the night before Christmas..."
Thank you for my story Grammy and Pappy

"Santa, you don't weigh more than a buck-fifty...you're suspect. By the way, that's a real nice hat..."

"...yeah I took his hat, so what?!?"

So last year Jess and I decided that since we could never guarantee where we would be for Christmas, it would be a holiday that we always celebrate at home, wherever that may be. We also began our Christmas tradition of making homemade pasta. This year we made two types of ravioli. Jess did a roasted butternut squash and sunflower seed filling with a white wine and sage butter sauce; I made a pulled duck filling with a roasted red pepper sauce. They both turned out great and Jess is going to post the full recipes along with some of her other creations in the coming days.

Christmas morning. Mommy got some "Chef's Companion" cards. Now we can figure out how to use our crazy Celsius oven.

This is actually an old toy from Steve and Myra's house, but Liam loves it so much that they gave it to us. We decided to wrap it up. Yeah we got off cheap this year. Not sure if he's gonna fall for the re-gifted stuff much longer.