A not so white Christmas....

No snow, but a great Christmas nonetheless.
Win and I were up late with Tim the night before wrapping and filling stockings that were hung over the fire place.

Crystal had even made individual ones with our names on them!

Christmas morning we all went downstairs to find that the stockings had been stuffed even fuller by the mystery fat man.

There were lots of great gifts from Santa, most notably for Chelsea a Nintendo DS, for Isaiah some great puzzles and a fire engine/police station wooden boy doll house and Isabelle got a barbie and magnetic doll house. Much more exciting though, Win had given me cheese in a can... one of the delicacies in this world that no one should miss out on trying.... made me reminiscent of the Goofy movie....
Daniel also got another cockateil, "cookie" to keep "Oreo" company and to add to the menagerie that they have here.
Alex and Daniel also got cupcake shaped beanies that they wore for the day. Quite amazing beanies really, complete with knitted cherries on top.
Everyone got Chocolate Oranges in a Hahn Christmas stocking tradition... I guess in place of the mango in the stocking tradition... although they did also give us dried mango in the stocking so that we would feel at home.

Ate a big breakfast and played with toys then after lunch Grandma Scott turned up and we all moved into the other lounge room where there was another tree and 120 more gifts...it was like 2 Christmases!
We were blown away by all the gifts that the family had given us, both the Hahns, Ida Mae and Allen and presents that Judy and Emory had given instructions to buy from them.
They were all so generous that we felt very touched.
A lot of things to set up the new house, and even things to kick start our foodstorage.
Then of coarse there was Christmas Lunch/Dinner which included Candied Yams, Baked Ham, Mormon Funeral Potato Bake, UHmazing fresh baked rolls that were from a can and Fruit salad.
Then we all went to Grandma's house for second dinner and to see some more cousins (Aaron and his wife with their 3 kids) who had driven up from Boston as a surprise.
The kids played, we ate Allan's dry smoked ham and a whole lot more food till our bellies hurt.
We gave the family Cadbury chocolates and boomerangs. Win's grandma got Daryl Lea chocolate covered macadamias.