excellent! We'll have to revive the "close up" thread.

Thanks SG, excellent Christmas party.

Here's what I cooked for Christmas Day. Some yummy lamb.

We had lamb as well. Butterflyed leg of lamb on the grill. It was very good.

I love lamb. We had leg of lamb yesterday at our friends house. Rack of lamb takes it to a whole other level though.:yum:

No pics...I looked ragged, haggard and drawn. Been a rough couple of months. :(

However, Christmas dinner was delicious. Steak on the grill, ceasar salad (I taught S21 how to make from scratch), sauteed mushrooms, corn on the cob, dilled baby red potatoes, and dinner rolls. I forgot to make the steamed asparagus. Oh well. We invited a friend (age 19) of my son's over, she got no presents for Christmas and not even a 'Merry Christmas' from her dad, who she lives with. She was feeling unloved and unwanted, poor girl. Also had son's girlfriend for dinner.

Then we watched Harry Potter 6 while we had pie and whipped cream.

We had family over. One brought turkey, another mashed potatoes. We made carrots, stuffing, provided two pies for dessert and I managed to bake dinner rolls since we forgot to buy those. Not bad either, especially since you figure I'm not a good baker.

Scriven - I want to fall face first in to that plate !!! it Looks YUMMMMMMMY !!

Stormy - You did a Good thing inviting that young lady , she will remember it for YEARS to come !! I Know I remember Holiday dinners when I was away from home in the USMC .

I love that the British have taken to the turducken to the point that a ready-made one is available!

My Christmas, and Christmas Eve were spent at the Nuthouse. We were at 50% staffing, and had full patient flow. On Christmas Eve I wore my Grinch sweatshirt, since I knew that I'd be grinching somebody's Christmas. Turned out to be quite a few somebodies. Ditto last night ... half staff and full patient load. Chinese delivery for Christmas Eve, the leftovers last night.

I figured it would be better than sitting at home and brooding.

We are still sneaking up on our family Xmas tomorrow. Not much going on in this town right now as we are up to 9" of snow. Selene has gone over to see the baby, and I'm waiting for a call that she's on her way back so I can start dinner. Later, I have a few more things to wrap and get under the tree, then I have to go to be early as I need to be up at 6:00 to get a 24# bird in the oven.

I took some pictures of the family tuucking into Christrmas dinner yesterday but I haven't loaded them onto the computer yet but here's a picture I took this morning at 7.o clock.
Me and the dog was out for his morning walk in the local park and while he zipped off chasing rabbits I took this picture on my phone,the vibe was so great with the cold weather and freezing fog rolling through the park and it was so quiet.

That's an eerie shot be-bop.

The snow we got. Christmas Eve night at my house in the 'burbs.

Christmas morning at my parents.

1: my parent's dog in her Christmas gift from me
2: my parent's Christmas tree and presents
3: my brother, Nick, and his wife, Christina
4: my sister, Alaina, and her fiance, Benjamin.

1: My mom. She has lost 60lbs! Go her!
2: My dad handing out presents of course.
3: Me wearing the scarf my sister gave me. (I have found some of the pounds mom lost.)
4: Another pic of the dog, Daisy. I don't know why I didn't get any pics of the other two pets, but oh well.