Christmastime in London Town

Christmas 2014 marks the last one that D and I will ever spend alone again...and our first in London!!  Crazy, huh?  As strange (and sad) as it was not being home with our family, we really made the most of being in London during the holiday season.  There are so many fun activities around Christmas and we did as much as we could.
Getting to spend the week of Christmas here with our best friends was really special, too.  The 6 of us (plus T's parents) had Christmas Eve dinner at T&KC's in Notting Hill and it was a super fun night as always.

H & me

Petrolinos & Sullivans

the O'Neills

savvy six

we sure will ^

Christmas Eve, D and I went to 11pm mass in South Kensington.  Although I had to work really hard at 9 months pregnant to keep my eyes open, it was nice experiencing Christmas mass at a different church.  Needless to say, we slept in Christmas morning.  We made challah french toast and took a walk down the usually bustling Kings Rd., seeing only a few faces along the way. 

That afternoon we headed up to Primrose Hill to the O'Neills and had an equally as special Christmas dinner.  As always, we are extremely thankful for our friends here who have most definitely become our family.  

Hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season!

Happy Hanukkah & Merry Christmas

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Mini 'Moon

D and I decided (last minute, of course) to go away for a night to commemorate our 10+ year relationship before we become a family of 3.  We cozied up at a nice hotel in Hampshire, about an hour south of London.  It was a great, relaxing, and special night.  The following day we had a delicious breakfast and then took a stroll around the grounds to snap some pics. 

On our way back to London we stopped at Richmond Park.  We've been trying to go there for months but never got around to it.  Since we had a car, we decided to drive through.  It was pretty amazing.  Huge, gigantic, massiveeee deer . . . EVERYWHERE !

London is great, but it was nice to escape for a couple of days. 

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Upon returning to London . . .

. . . some cookie baking

. . . making my Gram's gravy & meatballs for Christmas dinner

& all the while, growing by the minute - 37 weeks

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December in Pictures . . .

christmas carols 

christmas in duke of york square

dropping off tons of bags to a charity shop - felt good ;)

lunch at burger & lobster with D's co-workers

cooking class - great gift from Kait

an amazing sunset in London - happens so rarely

making latkes to celebrate Hanukkah with our friends

uncle d whistling to keep HLove happy :)

next up . . . Christmas in London!!!

xx

Family Fun

D's parents came for Thanksgiving again this year.  The weekend before we drove out to Cornwall and spent a few days driving from tiny town to tiny town.  It is an extremely beautiful coastline!!

showing our school spirit from stonehenge

D drove again and did a fantastic job...no land markers were hit this time! Car was returned scratch, dent, and duct tape free.

We returned Tuesday night to a pitch black flat.  Power was out.  After 8.5 hours of driving, minor nausea, and a backache, this was not something I was excited about dealing with.  Thankfully, after a long walk home from dropping the car off, we returned to light & heat! Phew!

We had quite a surprise Wednesday afternoon!!!! I was cutting D's hair in the living room and down the stairs came Dan & Dana (D's brother and wife).  This was HUGE! They have two kids and busy work schedules and we didn't think that they were going to be able to make it to London before we left.  We had an amazing 5 days with them and are so thankful that they came.

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Thanksgiving was spent at M&M's in Primrose Hill again.  As always, we are so appreciative of our London family.  Don't know what we'd do without them.

avon boys!

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We had such a great week!!!

xx

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Forgot to mention my sweet friends from church threw me a little baby shower during this fun-filled week...before everyone dispersed for Christmas.  It was so special and really meant a lot to me. Very lucky to have met these wonderful women!