Christmas Eve, Christmas Day....... and RELAXING!!

Christmas Eve I spent with some really good friends!!! Kim and Jason and their daughter hosted an awesome night...of FOOD and FUN Christmas Eve there were 7 adults and one excited girl that Christmas was here!  There was a full out Turkey dinner.. and tons of yummy snacks and goodies before hand!!!

 A quick snap of the 'pre-dinner' snack food!!!

A snap of Kim and I!

After Katie went to sleep....we all watched a movie... it might not have been the most 'Christmas-ey'..but was so darn funny.... I hadn't seen the Hangover... and well I'm glad I did get to see it!! If you haven't you should see it....

Just before the movie started I was served a Christmas MINT hot chocolate!  With a candycane and marshmellow AND whipped cream..it was delightful...

On Christmas Day... I woke up and gave Omar a HUGE walk---2 1/2 hours.. (like the ONLY daylight ones).. and we went to the end of the road...(but well I'll blog about that separately!).... That evening Tara has invited me over for Turkey and Char dinner... it was delish!!! She had a visitor from the south for the holidays.. and other friends Devin and Kendra came over too! It was a great night... Thanks Tara for doing all the cooking!!! :)

...getting everything ready...

...here we are about to eat... it was such yummy food!

Tara has this great tradition about hanging cookies on her Christmas tree....when I arrived I got to do the honours and hang them on the tree.... Tara also talked about this tradition on her blog...check it out!

This was my second Christmas ever in my 30 years away from home... the first one was Christmas of 2003...when I was living in Australia...that Christmas was different and the whole time it was happening it had this sureal kind of feeling about it...because it was summer!  This Christmas it was definitely NOT summer..but the temps weren't that bad... it was a white Christmas and one I won't forget.... on Boxing day I finally got to sleep...(other than the necessary trips outside with a dog...) and just relax!  I didn't end up going to the games on the ice or any other community events... I was just so tired... I think all the travelling this fall, packing, and trying to wrap my mind about relocating to a new city while living in the Arctic had finally caught up to me! 

Sunday I felt rested up and went to Kim's for a good MOVIE day!! hehehe we watched 3 films... one I had seen parts of.... Wedding Crashers...and there were two other friends that watched that with us..(as we had some yummy lunch!)... and then people departed... and Kim and I continued to watch movies...we watched Four Christmases (is that how you spell that/?!) and The Ugly Truth.... both were very good and funny!  it was awesome to have one last 'movie' day with Kim.... hopefully at some point we can do it again.... I'm so going to miss seeing you regularly!!! 

I had a fantastic Christmas though--and I hope you and your families did too!!!