Christmas & New Year's 2008

It's a little late and out-dated, what with us being in the 2nd month of 2009 already, but I thought I'd stick up a couple of photos from the festive season.

The bulk of my holiday was spent with Team Spohl (Sparks and Pohl) at the farm where we lived the life of sloths by relaxing to the max and generally only moved when entirely neccessary. Actually that really only applied to a couple of us, actually mostly just me, because just about everyone went on daily walks and rides ranging from a modest 2kms to a full blown 6kms at times. Personally I wasn't sure what we had all worked so hard during the year for, if we were going to spend our holiday trying to keep fit.

Christmas was mellow and was definitely more focused on the kids, something that is entirely understandable and yet hard to accept all at the same time. Luckily Bronny busted out her Christmas stockings again this year with Cal receiving her debut. The Spohls were completely blown away and all agreed that stockings were the way of the future.

On the 30th December the Spohls kindly vacated the premises in search of their own New Year's party, while the majority of our social circle arrived for a few days of chillaxing. New year itself was an awesome evening spent with great friends and the days were spent reading, fishing, playing board games and cricket, swimming, etc, etc......

Christmas Eve

Prawns and ribs for dinner - No stuffing around

Christmas morning

James waiting patiently for Uncle Baj to open his present, something that Uncle Baj was having an incredibly difficult time doing

James and David showing a keen interest in the good stuff

2 of the many fish we caught and ate

Christmas Day - Roast Lamb on the spit

Tight lines

Nix and Cal doing an impressive job de-boning and filleting