Twas the night before Christmas.....

........when all through the house, we were excited and made a gingerbread house!

Anais and Roman decorated the gingerbread angels........

..................and hung them on the tree!

More strange goings on in our house today, Roman found these in the cereals!!!!!!  They had a pack each.

This afternoon we went bowling using the games Mark won on Facebook earlier this month.

Scores were as follows - 

Game One
Mark - 117
Me - 91
Roman - 89
Anais - 64

Game Two
Me - 115
Roman - 87
Mark - 86
Anais - 86

Remember in February when we went to The Lakes we bought this silicone Christmas chocolate bar mould?

Also today Anais and Roman have been making bars of dark and milk chocolate to give as presents.  Some are plain and some have crushed peppermint candy canes pressed into the back of them.

We have been tracking Santa all day.

Our wood supply after it was replenished yesterday!

* under a tarpaulin in the back garden
* under the side of the house
* bottom of the garden

Tonight we have been carol singing, such a lovely atmosphere.  It was PACKED, probably as the weather was so mild and dry.

Oh the weather outside is frightful, but the fire is so delightful........................

Thanks Nicolette for the reindeer food, Roman sprinkled it outside earlier..............

Mark read "Twas the Night Before Christmas" to us.....................

...................and Anais and Roman left a carrot for Rudolph and some beer and a mince pie for Father Christmas.

Thanks Jenny for the pretty plant!

Happy Anniversary to Mark and I - 16 years ago today we went on our first date. After only knowing each other for a few days in Cyprus he already knew a lot about me and bought me a teddy bear, a jar of marmite (I moaned all week on holiday how much I missed it!) and a blue necklace (as my favourite colour is blue).