Christmas Eve...

How do you spend Christmas Eve and Day?  Are there many gift exchanges going on?  Are you the one who will always have a big Christmas meal with family and friends?  What about sharing love with the underpriviledged?  Big christmas meals and gift exchanges is our usual way of celebrating Christmas and Eve.  Nearing these dates, everyone is busy buying gifts for each other and making preparations for the celebration on the eve.  As eve draws nearer and nearer, we get more and more excited -wrapping gifts, displaying gifts in the BEST location, sharing hints on what each others' gifts is for the other?  what special meal to have for this christmas?  the build up to the dinner is indeed interesting and fun....

And in the kitchen, since 3pm, this is what is happening : (lots of preparation)

The preparations before the meal

Boiling the baby potatoes for baby herbs potatoes

The real mushroom soup (from scratch) and purple mash potato

The Big Fat Turkey in the Oven and the Fruit Cake on top

While the kitchen is hard at work, the living room is hard at work too!  Heres whats happening :

Getting all the pressies lined up!

And everyones waiting for the BIG CHRISTMAS MEAL.... heres how everything turns out at 7pm in the evening :

Yummy Yummy!

Everyone dug in and this is what you can hear :

during the meal :
add the turkey sauce! add the turkey sauce
this turkey is surprisingly tender and tasty! not just some hard chicken!
the ham slices are HUGE
mushroom soup is yummy with serious real mushroom cooked from scratch - water + flour + all kinds of mushroom
we should have salad to make this complete!  I told mei to buy...

near the end of the meal :
I am sooo full that I am going to burst
this is food enough for 20pax!
just one more turkey for you...plsss...
pack it up for tmr...bring home! bring home!

by the end of the meal :
unwrap PRESSIES!!!!!

Unwrapping the pressies is actually shouts, yells, clapping and camera snapping time.  Everyone wait on for the Emcee to announce how to do and what to do...while the Emcee herself is soo disoriented :)

All the happy faces in anticipation

and someone whom we turned into a kitty fan...all because of a kitty pot!

KTV here we come! yes, while we are having the meal and unwrapping the gifts, theres another group already at the Karaoke place 'chopping' the place and utilising the hours before we arrive.  The night ended in songs and dances and Ricco finally finding out what Karaoke is.... He was reluctant to leave the KTV place and told me that that he want to go KTV somemore....