Mia's first Christmas!

Well, how amazing! Mia is already enjoying her first christmas and look it is very, very white!

The first picture is of the front garden and view and the second picture is the back garden. A lot of snow! It is so deep that Pebbles disappears and has to resort to leaping to get through it! Still they have enjoyed many a snowy walk with their dad trying to find their balls in the snow.

It was Mia's first christmas so we felt we needed to mark the occasion with a special christmas outfit to wear on christmas eve and christmas morning. I think she likes it and definitely looked very, very cute!

Mia had her own pile of presents to open on christmas morning but as you can imagine she had no idea what they were or what the presents inside were either!! Still it is the principal I guess and she will be able to play with the toys before next christmas.

Posing with Mum

Posing with Dad

Are all these for me???!!!!

Yippee!!

It was great to have Mia this christmas and can hardly believe she will probably be toddling about this time next year - yikes!

We didn't forget the dogs though and here they are opening their presents which they always seem to be able to sniff out from all the other presents! They both enjoyed a christmas bone although Barney seems to prefer hiding his rather than eating it. On taking some rubbish out to the bins later that morning I noticed a small pile of snow up against the garage wall and lo and behold lurking underneath, hidden from greedy Pebbles, was Barney's precious bone. Even funnier was having realised that Mum must have found the precious bone he later came back and re-located it under another pile of snow up against the bins!! I am not sure of the whereabouts of this bone anymore........and I am not even sure Barney can remember either :-)

Christmas outfits!

We enjoyed christmas lunch at my brother's house with his partner Hazel and my lovely nieces Mhairi and Edie. As usual the lunch was excellent and we were utterly full when finished. We also enjoyed opening our presents to each other.

The girls! (Hazel, Gran, Mhairi)

Mia with Auntie Hazel

Mia with her fab cousins

Mac totally exhausted from the day's efforts

So that is christmas over for another year. It will be our turn to host it once the nieces decide they do not need to be where their presents are and once Mia gets old enough to want to stay at her house. It will be good fun when she is that age but I have a lot to live up to after many years of excellent hosting by my brother and Hazel!! Thanks guys.