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This year we are being mellow and hanging out with friends and watching a few scary movies. To start things off, we are watching the 1958 “House on Haunted Hill” at home with a very young Vincent Price. It’s so campy and so awesome!
Happy Halloween everyone!
After a wonderful Christmas Eve at our house with Ed’s family, we spent Christmas at Carrie’s parents’ house, with Eric, Shirley, the Facey kids, Debbie, Taylor, and Millie coming in from Perris. As has been the case since we’ve been married, we had yet another wonderful Christmas day filled with holiday joy, great food, and quality family time – especially with the Facey kids!
We got to Larry and Mary Anne’s house a little before Eric’s family rolled in, so we went to town right away with our presents. We got so many cool things, not the least of which was our choice of a musical theater show in 2009, complete with dinner! Eric and Shirley got the same thing, so we’ll most likely make it a double date!
Here’s us with a very cool cocktail book (accompanied by what is quickly becoming a new tradition – two cool new martini glasses!):
And here’s Larry and Mary Anne with our present for Larry – a really cool Disney Christmas tree skirt. We were pleased to hear from Mary Anne that Larry had been eyeing it for the past couple of years, so we’re glad he’s now the happy owner of it!
After a wonderful Christmas Eve at our house with Ed’s family, we spent Christmas at Carrie’s parents’ house, with Eric, Shirley, the Facey kids, Debbie, Taylor, and Millie coming in from Perris. As has been the case since we’ve been married, we had yet another wonderful Christmas day filled with holiday joy, great food, and quality family time – especially with the Facey kids!
We got to Larry and Mary Anne’s house a little before Eric’s family rolled in, so we went to town right away with our presents. We got so many cool things, not the least of which was our choice of a musical theater show in 2009, complete with dinner! Eric and Shirley got the same thing, so we’ll most likely make it a double date!
Here’s us with a very cool cocktail book (accompanied by what is quickly becoming a new tradition – two cool new martini glasses!):
And here’s Larry and Mary Anne with our present for Larry – a really cool Disney Christmas tree skirt. We were pleased to hear from Mary Anne that Larry had been eyeing it for the past couple of years, so we’re glad he’s now the happy owner of it!
And then the Facey kids arrived!
Our present to the Facey kids was a weekend with us where we’ll take them to a cooking class. In the meantime, we got them these aprons, paint markers, and a Ratatouille cookbook to get them ready for the experience! We can’t wait!
We got Eric and Shirley a framed history of the Facey name. Hey, you gotta know where you’ve been to know where you’re going!
Jordan, ever working her way up to Master Magician status, got this great book of magic tricks! She took great care not to let any of us look inside the book – a magician must keep her trade a secret!
Here’s Kendall with one of her presents – a Disney cook book! Oh yes, those Facey kids are going to be master chefs in not too long…
And here’s Ella with some cute new duds:
Wow, there’s no doubt they share the same genes, huh? Look at the chin, cheeks, eyes, and eyebrows!
We have no pics of it, but Kendall is growing more and more into a lady each time we see her. She got a cellphone this Christmas! Pretty grown up, if you ask us!
Here’s Ed with the Facey kids (minus Ella)!
How cool is this? The girls (minus Ella) all got watches that look just like Auntie Carrie’s!
And the festive placesettings for dinner:
Ella’s expression here is priceless. Do you think she was having a good time?
Mikayla took this photo of us. Hmm…does she have a future as a photographer? Great pic!
Great pic of Carrie and her dad!
Ed and Mikalya!
Merry Christmas, everyone! We wish everyone a peaceful and wonderful 2009 too.
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| Christmas 2008! |
Tonight we hosted Christmas Eve for the Kims, and everything was just perfect! We enjoyed good food, great conversation, a lot of laughs and some pretty cool gifts!
To start things off, we had to get the ambiance right. Here’s a few shots of our cozy Christmas setting:
I decided to make some little place cards for everybody with some peppermint sticks (because I’m nerdy like that):
And everybody really liked them!
The menu this evening was pretty simple – Ed’s mom, Kay, made a beautiful leafy greens salad with mango and raspberries (It was gorgeous!). We made the ham, my mom’s scalloped potatoes (Ed’s favorite), asparagus and wild rice. And for dessert, Ed’s aunt Grace brought a yummy cake from the Korean bakery! This cake is a big favorite of ours, it’s this very light cake with tons of fresh fruit on it … kiwis, pineapple, strawberries and oranges. Yum! Ed did most of the cooking this year, and it was delicious!
That’s a ham alright:
Preppin’ the asparagus:
Glazing the ham:
After dinner, we moved on to the gift exchange. I got a kick out of seeing Ed’s uncle, Luke, sitting on the floor, surrounded by tissue paper and presents. He looked just like a little kid!
The funniest gift of the evening went to Aunt Grace. Ed’s dad bought her a battery-operated megaphone! She’s quite the mover and shaker – she’s VERY active in many organizations and she heads up so many committees – so she needs her voice to be heard!
This year is a big year for Ed’s dad – he is turning 70 on January 1st. I thought that with the start of a new decade, he might enjoy a new “look” for his business. So I designed 3 different comps of a logo, business cards, letterhead and envelopes for him to choose from. I think it was a hit!
For some reason I didn’t catch Kay opening a gift, so here’s a shot of Ed & I with his mom:
All in all, it was wonderful evening. We thoroughly enjoy hosting Christmas Eve for The Kims! Merry Christmas everyone!
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| Christmas Eve 2008 |
I can’t help myself. I really like to think that I am helping keep traditions alive in this modern world by doing a little baking during the holidays. I don’t get crafty often, but I do enjoy perusing Martha Stewart (gasp!) magazines at Christmastime to get inspiration for fun ways to wrap up baked goods. I usually end up tweaking things a bit though to put my modernist aesthetic on it. I just finished round one of Baking 2008 this morning: Mini Gingerbread & Pumpkin Bread loaves. The tags were inspired by the Periodic Chart of Elements, because I thought Gingerbread and Pumpkin Bread are elements of the holidays. I just like having fun with it.
Christmas is a longstanding and cherished Facey tradition, and Christmas 2007 was another fun-filled (and delicious) day with good times, lots of decorations, and lots of awesome gifts!
