Christmas in March

 

Just a quick photo dump to remember last Christmas with my family. 

 

 

Christmas Day

Greg and I spent Christmas in my family. One thing's for sure, I still can't take decent pictures indoors.

Chocolates, they barely survived Christmas.

My beautiful Grand Pa

One of my favorite things about Christmas.

My Dad.

A special guest.

Hungry men.

My Mom served us a Fondue Bourguignone. What a brilliant idea!

Here is my favorite gift I got for Christmas. Four Spongebobs plushies from Greg. I love them. They are so soft and cute.

I always say I wish my cat would have eight 'minions', eight mini versions of himself actually, following him around. Greg gave me four Bobs instead. I'm waiting on another four to make it eight. :)

My Mom. Not a very flattering photo...

Spongebob love.

My brother, probably having a bad case of food coma.

That was my Christmas. Lots of food and wine, like every time I visit my family.

 I realise I didn't take a single picture of Greg... I'll make up for it during the year. :p

Homemade Christmas

For Christmas 2016 I wanted to give as many homemade gifts as possible.

I gave my Grand Pa a clay Devil I made a while ago. Since he likes witches, I thought it would be a good idea to give his devil a friend so I made him a little witch.

I made all the Christmas cards myself with construction paper, glitter sticks, acrylic gems and my beloved glue gun. I really love how they turned out.

For Greg, I made this picture of him with construction paper. He loves racoons even though he has never seen one in person, that's the tragedy of his life. :p I scanned the image and made him a coffee mug via vistaprint. Now he has his face in a frame AND on a mug.

Via Vistaprint as well, I made these two pictures book. One for my Grand Pa with the film pictures I took on all of our trips from 2014 to 2016. It was awesome to relive these moments making the book and picking out the pictures. 

I made one for my brother from our trip to Memphis.

I made these two drawings in 2005 and I remember my Mom wanted them at the time and I never gave them to her. Christmas 2016 was finally the right time. So I framed them and she got them by the Christmas tree.

It was a very nice Christmas, I'm still waiting on the pictures I took that I dropped at the lab. I really want to share one (four actually) of the gifts I got. ;)

Christmas Eve

I didn't quite feel the Christmas spirit in 2015. I felt kind of sad and sick (probably because of the oysters) on Christmas Eve. Christmas day was not better, we went to meet my grand father, my dad's father, and my parents found him in a coma on his bed. He's going downhill since.

I like making presents more than receiveing them. I also love wrapping them. And I get so nervous and exhausted by the time my family opens them that I usually throw up. I fought it hard this year, it worked. But I felt like crap all night. I'll stop whining now.

Greg and I took a walk with my Mom before dinner and I really didn't want to and was pretty sulky about it. I really don't know why, I couldn't feel the joy this year (well, last year now).

My Mom's ladybug slippers.

Traditionnal picture of my Grand Pa opening the oysters.

Daughter and father.

My dad. :)

I am glad the holidays are behind us. 2016 started way better than 2015, and right now I'm really counting my blessings. 

I realize nobody's smiling on my pictures... Whoa.... It wasn't such a sad Christmas, really! It wasn't the best but it was not that bad.