I realize I'm a little behind on wishing you all a Merry Christmas, but I'm gonna do it anyway........
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!
AND HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
Here's to 2014 and that it brings us all good health and happiness!
Here's what we were up too through the holidays!
In the weeks leading up to Christmas, Eleni and I were baking machines! I think we made enough Christmas cookies to feed all Santa's elves! Here's how Eleni likes to help mommy make cookies....
She also enjoys painting while we bake....
She makes some amazing pieces!
And then of course, taste-testing is her favourite part of the baking process!
We had to shower off all the paint before we could try a cookie, and once we were done that it seemed that mommy had left the camera on and the battery died, but I can assure you that my cookies got 2 sticky thumbs up!
Lefteris had his name day on December 15th. We ate and ate and ate, then we drank almost as much as we ate, and then we spent the rest of the night laughing our heads off and dancing until we had blisters on our feet
December 23rd Santa Claus was at Tsalikis (coffee and pastry shop), so we took Eleni to see him.
She didn't like him.
Hated him actually.
But there was music playing so once again, we danced until our feet hurt
Yia yia and Papous bought Eleni her very own Santa suit!
It's very cute,
but she hates it.....
that's why this pic is blurry, she was trying desperately to rip everything off the second we got it on her
Unfortunately we're skipping ahead to New year's now.....no Christmas day photos (*sniff sniff), we got a tablet for Christmas so I decided to take all the Christmas day photos with it, but it turned out there was a major problem with it (not sure what yet, we're still waiting to hear) and all the photos were lost.
So sad!!!
Anyway, we'll survive of coursed
We gave Eleni a little table and chair set and a bowling set along with a bunch of other little things, she got a bunch of cute little outfits and some warm winter clothes for Canada, aaaaand a pink rocking unicorn!! (pics to follow next time!)
Here's Eleni on New year's eve, ready to go over to her grandparent's house
Finally, a non-blurry, somewhat ok photo of her hair up in pigtails, before she pulled out the elastics
She does NOT like to have her hair done!
Antonis and I were at the restaurant with friends to bring in 2014...
actually I happened to be in the bathroom as the clock hit midnight because my bra broke and I was madly trying to sew it back together....just my luck!
But it was a very fun night, we were out late dancing (of course), and you'll be pleased to know that my bra stayed perfectly intact all night!
Here's the traditional cutting of the New year's cake...I know I've told you about this before but just to refresh your memories, it's a long time Greek tradition to cut the Vasilopita (Santa cake) on New year's day, each piece is designated to someone and the person who gets the piece with the hidden coin will have a very lucky year. And just so it isn't confusing when you watch the video, I'm aware that it is 2014 but we were making a joke that the year on the cake looked like it said 2011 or possibly 1106 if you looked at it upside down.....we were a lot of wines in at this point so don't feel obligated to laugh at that part....
And into the new year now....
Enjoying lunch while watching Baby TV on her very own table and chairs,
her favourite place to be
My birthday was great too, we celebrated at the restaurant....as usual....and went out dancing after...yet again, as usual. But it also happened to be the last night for the restaurant for a month because the guys are now taking their yearly 1 month off!!!
Now Antonis and Eleni and I will be relaxing at home together and then next month....it's OFF TO CANADA!!!!!
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