Christmas Recap

On Christmas morning, Jacob and I woke up, ordered breakfast from our local diner (waffles and scrambled eggs - yum!), and opened our presents.

First up - Jacob gave me beautiful silver earrings from Tiffany's. Aren't they soooo pretty? I really needed some studs for everyday wear - all the earrings I had were dangly.

He also got me what I've been DYING to have forever - a Playstation 3! As you know, I am a gamer girl at heart! And I've been really wanting to play some of the games only available on the Playstation 3 - such as Metal Gear Solid 4. (Which he had bought me as well! I've already logged in quite a few hours this weekend on the game!)







In addition, I got the castle expansion pack to Heroscope - this board game we and our friends like to play. It's a really cool game - where you build your own 3D terrain maps to play on. This set allows you to build a castle to seige.





And last but not least - this cute little skeleton stuffed animal, perfect for the goth girl in me. :)





Isn't he a great gift giver!?!

Here's what I got him:

A photo scanner. He has boxes of photos in the closet he's been hoping to convert to digital.





A Marc Jacobs messenger bag.





And a black cashmere sweater - since he's always cold. :) As you can see it was early in the morning and he's still a bit squinty here as he models it.





Normally I don't put clothing on Molly too much, but I figured she should be festive today. So she's wearing her Old Navy parka that my mom got her one Christmas past.





After that, we started cooking. We'd already cooked a turkey the night before and Jacob had carved all the meat. I took that and made turkey pies. Basically you just take a bottom crust, then add turkey and gravy then add a top crust and bake for a half hour. So delicious and easy - and it's better than just plain turkey because the gravy makes the turkey juicy and tender. Plus everyone loves pie crust. We used to have turkey pies every year at Christmas back home and they're still my favorite meal ever.

We also had mashed potatoes, corn, peas, cranberry sauce, and stuffing. What a feast!





I bought one of those Yule Log DVDs and put it on for atmosphere. It gave the room a really warm feeling - even if there was technically no heat. Oh and note the gorgeous wine glasses and decanter in this photo. Gifts from Jacob's parents that went to very good use.





Liz came over, bearing dessert! A delicious cake for us and some orange jello for Jacob. Sadly I didn't take a photo of the cake - but it was awesome, let me tell you!





After dinner Liz and I loaded up Boogie Superstar on the Wii and had a dance and sing off. Man, that thing is quite a workout! The pics are a bit blurry we were moving so fast! At least you're spared our attempts at singing!! Most of the songs on the disc were ones we never heard of--teeny bopper music like AJ and Ally, so we were improvising quite a bit. Still, it was super fun and we were laughing so hard we could barely sing at times.









Later on, Marcos and Leanna came over and we played a board game called Ticket to Ride that Liz had brought over. Good game if you haven't played it.

And that was pretty much it! A fun, festive holiday in NYC! Couldn't ask for anything more!

Marianne