scenes from christmas eve 2012

Last year, Larry and I hosted a small Christmas Eve dinner at our house. This year it was even smaller: just the two of us. (And the pups, of course.) We continued our new tradition of eating comfort food on Christmas Eve - Larry cooked up our favorite Beef and Vegetable Pot Pie recipe while I started on the Christmas baking.

The best chocolate crinkle cookies:

We lit some candles, ate dinner, and drank some beers. I cursed at my failed pie crust. We drank some more beers and hung out by the glowing tree. We snuggled some puppies. We pretended our fireplace wasn't broken.


Larry tried to convince me we should open all our Christmas presents early. I resisted. I cursed at the pie again. We drank some more beers...

And then it was 4 am.

So we opened our presents:

And it was awesome:

Also, Larry and I are clearly the perfect match. On the left: Larry's gift to me. On the right: My gift to Larry:

(Either that, or we are equally despicable.)

We went to bed happy and even better - got to sleep in on Christmas morning! Perfect.