holly jolly beachy holiday

we went to orlando right after christmas to visit tim's family, who were staying with his brother's wife's family. tim's brother is about to ship himself and his family off to africa where they will be missionaries. so we're trying to get as much time with them as possible before they cross the pond.

we got to go to dolly's dixie stampede and the beach and eat raw oysters (at least i did) all in the same day. wicked. i got a dolly key chain.

here are some more beach pics:

tim


our nephew watson and some feet


me


stephen (tim's bro) and tim

simply having a wonderful brit xmastime

just thought i'd share with some of y'all what xmastime is like in our house - brit-style. mum made the full works - yorkshire pudding, brussel sprouts, roast potatoes and parsnips, mince pies, christmas pudding. i did sticky toffee pudding, and grossly overestimated how much the four of us would eat so there was unfortunately a fair bit leftover which wouldn't keep.

here are some pics in case what i mentioned above is all greek to you.

brussel sprouts


parsnips


yorkshire pudding

and of course we had christmas crackers:


hence me in a paper hat. and here's tim in a paper hat too:


more pics later...