Happy New Year 2008!

It's only a couple hours before we say good-bye to the year 2007 and welcome in New Year 2008. I would like to wish everyone a happy and prosperous New Year. Happy New Year! Happy New Year!!!

Our Christmas Tree Made it After Christmas

Hard to believed our Christmas tree made it all the way after Christmas. Of course it was a fun whole month of constant Billy get away from the tree! Billy leave the tree alone!, Billy please put the ornament back!, no Bill, it's not a toy! Etc. I am not complaining.... hihi! Poor one, he just can't resist, as everything are fascinating for him and it's the age of exploring the world.

The Christmas tree farm.

Nice trees.

Ahaaah! Thats the one!.

Done the cutting job...poor tree.

We were so disappointed Billy wasn't feeling well the day we wanted to get our Christmas tree. So Billy and I missed all the fun of looking and selecting and of course cutting down the tree. Hubby had all the fun by himself. Anyway, hubby did a good job, nice picked hon.

Hubby putting the Christmas tree stand.

Billy's first real Christmas tree.

Fascinated by the Christmas tree

Billy got busted, again!

Whooops!

Sorry mommy!

Our silly goose

Engrossed with the shiny Christmas ornament.

Our little explorer.

Overall, I still say Billy was pretty good with the Christmas tree's ornaments and lights. He got fascinated with the lights only on the first week. Unfortunate for the Christmas tree's ornaments though. By the end of second weeks, we had 5 or 6 ornaments end up in the trash. Oh well, mommy needs a new one anyway. Good reasons to get new ornaments LOL!

I am just looking at it.

I will put it back when I am done mommy.

Before and After Christmas

This year just like every Christmas my darling hubby handled all the cooking on both Christmas Eve and Christmas day. Okay, I admit he is a better cook than me. So he did all the cooking and I helped with cleaning and the dishes. That's an easy job for wifey. Thanks to the dishwasher ...haha!

Anyway, hubby made oysters stew which was our regular menu on Christmas Eve. Hubby says it's his family's Christmas Eve traditional menu.

Hubby's Christmas Eve traditional menu - Oysters stew.

Ready!

The oyster’s stew turned out really good. Hubby did a great job. The first time I ate oysters stew was about 6 years ago, I think it was strange. I love oysters but prefer it in curry. So I thought what about Asian special oyster curry for a change next time. The next Christmas Eve I took over the cooking job and cooked curry oysters but its turned out not as good as I expected. LOL! Since that I decided to let him in charge of the big cooking...hihi!

Whooopsy, wrong spoon.

Yum yum.


It's cost only $7 each.

On Christmas day, we invited our friend and Doug's colleague, Dr. Padmaja for dinner. She brought one big yummy cake, thanks Padma. And thank you for the nice Christmas present for Bill too.

Billy with our our friend, Dr. Padma.

Billy was so excited to see his aunt Padma.

Aunt Padma, can you help me unwrap my present?

Okay, I'm gonna do it myself.

I did it!! Aahah! Pete the repeat parrot! Thank you aunt Padma.

Chef in action.

Yummy roast duck

Hubby's sweet potatoes candy.

Simple but yummy dinner

Thank you for the big Christmas cake, Padma.

Our Nativity and fireplace.

The dinner was great. Once again hubby did a great job. The duck was really good; the sweet potatoes candy was nice too. (I used to skip the sweet potatoes candy because it's extremely sweet). After dinner we just relaxing in front of the fireplace, had some cake and watched movie. Thank you for being our guest Padma. We enjoyed your company. :=)

An Extra Special Christmas

It's the day after Christmas today. Hope everyone has an extra special Christmas this year and always. We did and I know my family back home has one too. There are many-many reasons why it's an extra special for us. Just to mentions a few, this actually is the first Christmas we celebrated as a family of three. Last year Billy and I celebrated Christmas with my parents and my family members in Malaysia. Hubby made a really big sacrificed to let Billy celebrated his first Christmas with his grandma and grandpa and our relatives in Malaysia. Thank you for your big heart honey.

Another reasons was my brother (the only brother) and his family were home this Christmas. They have been away for many-many Christmas but they made it home for good just before Christmas this year. What is more wonderful than having your loves one that been away for so long on Christmas day? Even though we were not there to celebrate Christmas with them but we felt and share the joy and happiness in our heart.

For every big and small thing, for all the chances given in life, all the wonderful things happened in our life, there are always reasons to thank the Almighty God.

Hope the joy and the spirit of Christmas will remains in everyone's heart all year long and always. :-)

Merry Christmas & Happy Holiday!

We would like to wish everyone a merry and blessed Christmas and happy holiday. Hope you have a safe and wonderful one. Thank you for visiting my blog.

Best Wishes From,
The Knights
Oak Ridge, TN.