We had such a great Christmas this year. We got to spend Christmas Eve and Christmas Day with just us 3. Our little family. How weird is it that I just wrote those words? Many of you who read this know that I'm not normal or traditional (insert silly jokes that I just waltzed in here). I often see what is normal and deviate as much as possible from that. I always said I was NEVER going to have children. That I would NEVER stay home with a child all day. Now look at me, staying home (working from home, but you know), loving this baby more than anything else and loving the fact that we had a "normal" Christmas. Well....normal probably isn't the right word. Steven's office let him take home this a.m.a.z.i.n.g. camera for the Holiday season so we capitalized on that. We took about a million pictures of P-money (or Puke Master P as Steven has dubbed her). You can see those here. After we got bored of that, we decided to make a Godzilla like remake with Gingerbread. I know....not the usual "read the Christmas Story and open presents business." Here's the outcome of some of the best 4 hours of laughter with my best friend (while our baby happily slept in her swing!).
When Gingerbread Giants attack!
Since we were so productive on Christmas Eve, we decided to take it easy on Christmas Day. We woke up late and I made this awesome Vegan Breakfast Casserole (Thanks Ellen DeGeneres!)
YUM!
After that deliciousness, we had to go for a little walk to burn off the casserole and prepare for Christmas dinner together to the park. I love living in LA, it was a nice 60 degrees!!
Once we got back from the park, we made a HUGE Christmas dinner for just us (probably the last time I'll ever do that again, we wouldn't want to make a tradition of this business!):
YUM AGAIN!
I made an awesome Vegan Cheesecake (although it tasted more like Tapioca than Cheesecake, but still great!):
I also made this great Pumpkin Pie!!! Anyone can make this!
We didn't even open presents or have stockings together. We figured Christmas wasn't really supposed to be about that and we had way too much fun just hanging out together anyways, who needs presents, right? We spent much of the rest of the day trying to figure out how to get Peyton into this sling my sister got for me. We were successful, but it took several attempts. Thank goodness P is such a good sport and just let us spend an hour or so shoving her into this thing!! Result - Success!:
I like the name P. Thinking we should add the word "sweet" to the front of it. Love that baby.
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