Christmas 2010

My first Christmas away from home....

Nick cooked for me...

Heidi got to sample chicken, a rarity in our mostly vegetarian house...

My mother-in-law came to visit...

We finished decorating our living room, and Nick got his first real tree that he can remember, just in time for Christmas.

I wore sparkle gold nail polish 

and drank enough bailey's and coffee to make me jittery until next year....

I kicked ass in scrabble.  

Nick thought he had us beat with "urinal" 

but I seemed to surpass him with a few clever placements of words like "debt" and "Jew"...

(even if they did accuse me of cheating...sore losers if you ask me)

Santa came...

Nick's mum got Heidi a snuggie, which she ate.

I made Cincinnati's favorite Christmas morning breakfast, 

Virginia Bakery's Schnecken... with lots of love and butter; 

which rose more than I thought it would...

But it still turned out alright, though it seemed to need MORE butter.  

Honestly, what doesn't need more butter - right?

I hope you had a very Merry Christmas too!