This year we finished up the renovations by December 15th and we got busy decorating our house for
Christmas. We had a joint Christmas party with Sherry and Larry 
for all our friends and neighbours on the 22nd. Our friends, Majic and Anna and daughter Daniella stayed with us for Christmas which was great. Along with the Wildeboers, Jacksons and our neighbours, Larry & Sherry, George and Elaine, we were a grand total of 20 for Christmas dinner. We even had turkey - 2 of them to be exact. It really felt like Christmas this year and everyone had a fabulous time. Some of us took the boys to the beach on Christmas night for a beach bonfire which was fun although the Canadian boys (our visitors) were a bit nervous of the crabs as they were all heading out to sea and the beach was just crawling with them!Here's a few shots from Christmas and the kids with their loot.
Also, one picture of Shadow leaping inside the Christmas tree the day I put it up. Luckily, she didn't bother with it again and so I was able to decorate it without incident. She likes to sleep under the tree on the tree skirt just like Maggie did last year.
One picture of the Gallant family as we don't take those too often and one picture of our new wrought iron chairs on our sun patio. George lent us a picnic table for Christmas day and about 8 folks ate their dinner out there. Our table is on order and hopefully will arrive this spring sometime. In the foreground you can see my bougainvilleas blooming; they were just beautiful for their first year.
