Holiday Beauty
Happy still-the-holidays blog peeps.
We spent the holidays at the in-laws home…pretty much a Thomas Kincaid painting. Perfect holiday beauty.
I started out with good intentions…
And even got an exercise run with Hilldawg.
Then. Then the food Began. Traditionally, the in-laws do fondue all.day.Christmas.eve. This means a cheese fondue for lunch. A meat fondue for dinner. Followed by a chocolate dessert fondue around 10pm.
The Cheese course…holy warm buckets of cheese!
Forgot to photo dinner.
The dessert!
Notice my husband is already eating whilst the rest of us civilized folks are simply passing the fruit (and marshmallows which are my fave part of dessert fondue). Beast, he is!
And with that, we hung out stockings by the chimney with care to await Santa and his tiny reindeer.
We awoke to pretty much a perfect White Christmas morn.
Santa wasn’t able to eat all his cookies that we left out, so I MAY have had to help eat them for first breakfast while we sipped coffee and opened gifts!
See…Santa had a BIG task ahead of him…poor fellow. No worry Santa, our crew took care of these delights…no prob.
Christmas lunch is a feast of appetizers because we all know apps are the BEST food on earth!
- salami, turkey kielbasa, 3 different sliced cheeses
- crackers of all kinds
- dried beef dip
- reuban dip
- shrimp butter
- spinach artichoke dip
- brie cheese, goat cheese
- hummus
- brushetta
How fun!
Oh, and our family is supa fun. And we drink. 
My particular for this pic was vodka and club soda with fresh lime. In a kickass cocktail glass from Australia.
Christmas Dinner Feast!
- locally, humanely raised beef (prime rib)
- sautéed mushrooms
- cheesy creamed potatoes (1 of my top 10 all-time favorite foods on this planet)
- steamed corn
- a Mondavi pinot noir to drink
After dinner we played Scattergories. Naturally. I won.
<——-Capricorn and VERY competitive
The next day I forgot to take pics, but it was equally full of food and fun.
Puzzles! We also love doing puzzles over the holidays. Something challenging yet relaxing about it.
As you can see, my sis and her hubby are up above. They joined us for Christmas at the in-laws too. I was SO thrilled to have them there with me. My two families, one happy holiday. Love.
I tried to redeem myself with another healthy breks the next morning.
A very merry Christmas. But this woman is happy to look forward to the upcoming new year, and all the fun it has in store for us.
Hope y’all are well.
xo
Er
P.S. in lieu of good holiday cheer, I refrained from cursing this go-around. 
P.P.S. A certain host of this blog has a bday coming up…
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December 29th, 2009 at 9:33 AM
Kath says:Yay for holiday cheer
Our family likes puzzles too
December 29th, 2009 at 9:57 AM
TorontoGirloutWest says:lol Your Christmas looked awesome!!!
And thanks for the holiday cheer!
December 29th, 2009 at 10:06 AM
Jillian says:Looks like you had a great Christmas!!!
Ps- marshmallows are my favorite part too!!!
December 29th, 2009 at 11:07 AM
Jenny says:Great pics of the holidays! The Christmas tree with presents is gorgeous, and I love the fondue tradition, so unique
Also puzzles and drinking? Best way to pass the time if you ask me.
December 29th, 2009 at 11:26 AM
Fancy Pants Nance says:Beast, he is! LOLOLOLOLOL
December 29th, 2009 at 11:44 AM
FoodCents says:I would be lying if I said I didn’t miss the cussing just a wee bit, but I think I can move past it:)
Big 2-1, right?
XO
December 29th, 2009 at 12:17 PM
Holly says:Dang….can I celebrate with your family?! You had me at the cocktails.
December 29th, 2009 at 12:37 PM
michelle says:<3 What a FAB day!
December 29th, 2009 at 1:02 PM
Mama Pea says:I’m not sure if I like the cookie spread or the booze spread better, but either way, “Christmas Beauty” is right.
December 29th, 2009 at 1:59 PM
janetha b says:awe i love the snow romping with miss hillary! whata gorgeous spread~it all looks so good
xoxo
December 29th, 2009 at 2:10 PM
kay (eating machine) says:my family always did fondue for new years, and i thought it was some sort of us being weird thing.
now i’m just sad we only did the meat one and left out CHOCOLATE
December 29th, 2009 at 3:05 PM
Rachel in NC says:I had to laugh at “first breakfast”! I love to sip coffee and have something small when my family opens gifts. I’m glad you had a nice Christmas!
December 29th, 2009 at 9:08 PM
Erin @ Big Girl Eats says:Your husband looks SO PUMPED for the fondue. That is hilarious.
We play Bingo at Christmas and my father, who is also a Capricorn and very competitive, tried to instill a “you get to steal the gift of the person before you” rule this year because he wanted certain items from the baskets. And we are super fun and drink like that too. We’d totally be friends.
December 30th, 2009 at 8:18 AM
Lauren says:I am so happy to see that you enjoyed a wonderful Christmas! haha, and what a girl you are for helping Santa out this year. I am sure the man can do some damage on cookies, but he must appreciate the help as well.
Everything looked wonderful Erin. So happy for you and your family!
Take care hun.
December 30th, 2009 at 11:14 AM
brandi says:yum - fondue day sounds like the best thing ever. I may need to start that.
Looks like you guys had a great Christmas and Hill got to play in the snow - always fun
December 30th, 2009 at 11:46 AM
Andrea@WellnessNotes says:Wow! Love all the fondue on Christmas Eve!!
And all the appetizers & cookies & drinks & games look like lots of fun!!!
January 13th, 2010 at 9:31 PM
Marianne says:All day fondue? Sign me up! Looks like you had a great Christmas.