Christmas Photos

We enjoyed a Tex-Mex dinner Christmas Eve with American friends (to the bafflement of some of the Brits we know). I guess Tex-Mex and Christmas cuisine aren't compatible ideas to them? Here Sophia's holding the farm set our friends gave her.

All five candles lit and all doors opened on the calendar: Christmas has come!

Christmas morning before going to church, Sophia finally got to open the presents. My parents watched her open their gift in real-time via Skype, which was cool.

Wes promised to make Sophia a special Christmas cake that now he thinks was a dose of humility after two very successful birthday cakes for her plus a couple of pies that turned out well. We're not sure what went wrong, but what was supposed to be a two-layer chocolate cake with truffle icing is now molten chocolate crumble cake when we shovel it out of the pan and re-heat it in the microwave. Sophia was happy with it.