Christmas Morning

I suppose I should have been prepared for the lunacy and weirdness (the good kind) that composed my first Christmas morning away from home (I mean look who we’re talking about here!) I’ll give you a play by play through the photos below but basically we got up, had breakfast, opened presents and went to church. Sounds innocent enough hey? Well – read on if you dare. Ok slight exaggeration but honestly, I was very thankful that when I could have been homesick and missing my other crazy family that I had this crazy lot to have fun and be silly with and could feel right at home!

My fascination with the amount of time the boys spend in the kitchen continues

Like father like son.

Steve and Narelle prepare the croissants (innocent enough so far)

The slight silliness began when Relle decided to make us pancakes in the shape of the letter of our first name and Steve told her she'd ruined his Christmas because she broke his "S"

This is Kev's perhaps slightly defeated look after he read us the Bible story only to be continually interrupted by various comments and actions including Relle and Hev miming sending text messages when he read the part that goes "They told everyone they met what the angels had said about this child."

Not to mention my personal favourite - Narelle's comment of, "Shouldn't that be more Arabic sounding?" after he read the part, "At once the angel was joined by a huge angelic choir singing God's praises: Glory to God in the heavenly heights, Peace to all men and women on earth who please him."

You just can't get a reverent family these days can you Kev?

I can just picture him as a little boy with the exact same expression on his face!

So after the breakfast and present opening hoopla it was off down to the church to get ready for the morning service. Steve helped his Mum with the technical stuff.

And being the good "kids" we are, at the conclusion of the service we oh so helpfully and efficiently began cleaning up all the party popper streamers and and other rubbish (only because we are true and humble servants of the Lord - nothing to do with wanting to get out of there as quickly as possible so we could get on to Christmas lunch with the rest of the extended family!) So we had everything ship shape in no time, only to find out that Kev wanted all the rubbish left to use as an illustration in his next message. So what's the answer? - a streamer/random rubbish fight of course!

And this was all before 11:00am!