What a Merry Christmas It Was....& Pink Saturday!

Cookies were baked.

Thumbprints are my brother's favorite!

Jacob's is fudge.  Notice the cute little walnut heart....

Presents were wrapped. 

Do good things

come in small packages?

Dinner was prepared.

I can't show you any of it being served

because it didn't last long....

This salad is like the

Olive Garden Salad.

The lasagna is a 45 year family tradition.

Garlic toast was also served

as well as a lovely

Olive sampler platter.

Which did not get photographed.

The table was set.

(Nobody would let me take their 

picture for the blog....)

The tablecloth is my Mom's.

The plates and bowls 

are from 

The Pottery Barn.

(Gollum, I forgot to place my chocolates 

on everybody's plates....I found the bag of 

candy when I was searching for the

items to fill Jacob's Christmas sock - which I 

couldn't find this year - oy!  Now I have a 

dozen Ghirardelli Peppermint Bark candy bars 

here tempting me.  I'll have to bring them to

work , etc.

The dessert has a story behind it.

It is from Cafe Latte' 

of Grand Avenue, St. Paul.

Another dentist gave it to Dr. K as a gift,

it was delivered late Tuesday afternoon.

We had a flaming toothache arrive at 6 PM

Tuesday evening and we worked 

late into Tuesday night.....

Out of guilt for keeping me from my

Christmas eve preparations

Dr. K gave me the cake! 

I at first refused, but he insisted....

It was absolutely delicious - 

It's called the Tres Leches Cake. Mmmm!

The search was on for the pickle....

(Megan was behind the tree).

Megan won the $2 bill!

And the free gift with purchase

from Macy's perfume counter.....:)

It was a tote bag.

Presents were opened and opened.

Pictures were not taken.  

I received a new MacBook!

And so did Jacob!

Gramma & Grampa 

were very generous this year!

Thanks Mom & Dad!

(I hope my brother isn't reading this.)

My brother received 

wonderful gifts as well.

Everyone got involved with Jacob's 

Rockband game.  Have you guys 

played that?  It is so much fun.

You get to release your inner  R o c k s t a r!

Jacob's game room is in the lowest basement

level of my 5 level home where only

  teenagers usually hang out.

Yikes!   The room is a disaster area!

(He actually cleaned it for the holiday - he claimed.)

The next day his friend came over 

to play the new video games

and they stayed up - almost all night!

The next morning I made them breakfast.....

A Dutch Baby Panakukan.

The skies were a beautiful shade of pink.

You know the saying - 

Red Skies at Night,

A Sailor's Delight!

Our temperature right now is

a balmy 38 degrees.

It is very foggy.

I hope you enjoyed this 

tiny spot of pink

for our Pink Saturday.

Visit Bevery@How Sweet the Sound

to visit all of the other

Pink Saturday Fun!

Robyn