Christmas!

CHRISTMAS!! 

With two Christmas trees set up with lights and the house full of Christmas decorations it was easy to get in the mood for Christmas! Even on the drives around the neighborhood you'd see Santas on motorbikes, Santas jumping up to the roof, Reindeer pulling slays and crazy amounts of lights.  

When coming home we'd slowly pass the houses in the street to take in the lights and Bella would yell from the back seat "CHRISTMAS LIGHTS, Daddy slow down for them!!".  

We wanted to make sure that Santa felt welcome so we made choc chip cookies and left them out with some milk for him and a carrot for the reindeer.

Someone up bright and early for Christmas day!

Outfit No 1.

Outfit No 2.

Outfit No 3.

Emilio making a princess her favourite!! A babychino!

Nick sporting his new Christmas scarf

Outfit No 4. Doc McStuffin! Who's gonna be the doc?

Crazy Christmas lights!!

Mmmmmm. Fried Turkey!

Wishing you a wonderful and exciting 2015!

Love,

 the Beales in the USA

Nick's Birthday and Ice Skating

So amongst  the craziness that is December Nick's birthday managed find it's place.... and the thing to do for Nick was go  ice skating!

Lily's Brother Brendan was in town with his Girlfriend so the five of us set forth to find the local outdoor rink in Glassboro, NJ.  This would be the first time for Bella who was super excited as so was Nick because it had been 8 years since he'd done it last. As you can see in the photos we were the first ones on the ice so it was all nice, smooth and clean; not so after we ripped it up!

We all had an awesome time ice skating and taking turns in helping Bella get her ice feel.  We stayed the full 2 hours and by the end we all felt like we'd done a good amount of exercise!


Nick's Birthday "Cake" was the tradition American Sweet Potato Pie made my Lily's lovely mother, Vahlia.

 

Christmas and New Years love from all of us here in NJ!

Thanksgiving, Santa Claus and NYC

So we are definitely feeling festive after an amazing Thanksgiving and all the Christmas decoration everywhere you turn.  We've been busy, Bella missing daddy everyday he goes to work asking the night before "Daddy when the sun comes up will you be going to work?" and if Daddy says yes it is followed by "Nooooo, I don't want to you go to work, I want you to stay here".

Now Nick knows how Thanksgiving goes down in the States.... Food, Football and time to hangout with friends and family. Oh and turkey, you can't forget the turkey.  Nick had never seen so much of it in her life as he was help Emilio monitor the oil temperature of for the deep fried turkey while Lily helped inside.  We are talking over 45 pounds of Turkey on the dinner table and full leg of pork.... And macaroni and cheese, potato salad, home made cranberry sauce and about 10 pies for dessert (sweet potato, pumpkin, apple cinnamon etc etc).  Here are some of our first American Thanksgiving:

Bella learning how to skate board:

Unfortunately we were having so much fun that we didn't take many photos!

Bella is so excited for Christmas this year, it's the first one she's old enough to understand!  She is intrigued about the idea of Santa coming down the chimney, but she is so happy for presents that she doesn't mind the idea of a strange man coming in the house to give her presents.  And recently we went to visit him at the North Pole!

And Nick hung out with Steve in NYC

It's snow here as I write! We might have a white Christmas!  Love you all