Christmas Dinner with Friends

One of the highlights of this Christmas was being able to share it with my friends Sarah and Marcelle and their families.

From Christmas 2009

Unfortunately my camera was set on some funny setting and only a few photos turned out :(

Anyways everyone had a wonderful time and we got to share some of our different Christmas traditions. I made a turkey and some good old American sweet potatoes and green bean casserole! Sarah and Mark are British and they brought minced pies, Scottish shortbread, trifle, English Christmas pudding. Sarah and Marcelle both brought Christmas crackers that we opened. (click on Christmas Cracker if you don't know what that is)
Marcelle brought two amazing side dishes one with grilled Halumi cheese on top that was to die for! She is South African so her traditional Christmas dinner would involve BBQing by the pool since it would be the middle of summer for them!

The kids had a blast playing together. Here is a picture of the girls:

From Christmas 2009

(from L to R Chloe, Abby, and Alayna)

After the dinner the guys even escaped outside for a cigar.

From Christmas 2009

(from L to R Mazen, Mark, and Ryan)

It really was an amazing day, one that we will remember forever. We feel so blessed to have such amazing friends here. We will miss them dearly.