Christmas in Lexington!

Well… we were at home in Lexington for the last… 10 days or so… had all sorts of good times.. good food… lots of good food… and time with family is always good as well…

So… blog updates will be broken up accordingly.. food will land over at the cooking blog… other stuff will end up here..

The trip started with me heading up to Northern VA with Newhall to play with some fun cars….

The above would be the heart and soul of a Porsche 911 Turbo … very clean, very fun car.

This… well… this is a Nissan Skyline GTR … and it’s.. amazing. I was lucky enough to sit in the passenger seat for a little drive in this thing… and it blew my mind. It’s wicked fast. It handles like a dream… and the sound… well.. the sound of the car is worth the price-tag by itself.

So.. while Newhall worked.. I got to drool. It was totally worth the trip.

Then, it was back to Lexington… where I discovered that all of my shirts that I made sure to wash, dry and hang on hangers…. had been left in Boone. So, I called Virginia and she had to go shopping for some new shirts for me… But, all of that done, we went to church.. then to lunch… and overall good times.

At the Page household, Virginia worked on decorating the tree.. and there was cookie making… which will be on the cooking blog…

and Virginia added an ornament that she made in Boone…

Then.. after lots of cooking… it was off to the Trovato household… we had dropped off the cats there when we first got to town, so we were anxious to get there and check in with them again… Poor OC doesn’t get along well with other cats.. and Grace and Tyger teamed up on her and confined her to the upstairs… so she got a little special treatment… her own room…. catered / delivered meals… and her private litterbox…. meanwhile… Grace had the run of the house…

So, Grace used her freedom to climb the Christmas tree… and set up camp there…

Back to the Page household, it was time for Martha to experience her own little bit of fun with Gingerbread. She gave it a valiant effort, but she was having issues with the frosting as well…. so… I blame the people at Domino Sugar. … I’m sure it has absolutely nothing to do with them… but… its easier to explain that way.

Then, it was back to the Trovato house…. Rachel showed up, and brought stuff to make buffalo chicken dip…. which was rather tasty… and there was more cookie making…

We “had Christmas” at the Trovato household on the 23rd.. Dad had to work on the 24th and 25th.. so, the evening of the 23rd worked like a champ… then, it was to Church on Christmas Eve.. and Christmas morning found us back at the Page household… Virginia’s mom was happy as a teenager with her new iPod Touch.. and she picked up the usage of it amazingly quick…

Before long, she’ll be downloading apps and accessing Facebook just like all of the rest of the cool kids.

Christmas evening found us at the Oliver’s house, where we stuffed our faces… sang carols…played games…

and had some great times and good laughs…

For the record though…. Settlers of Catan … two thumbs down. BORRRRRRING.

Amazingly… this is about all I have for non-food related pictures… out of the 160 pics I took… most were of food apparently…so… it likely won’t happen tonight… but a new update over at the food blog will be coming decently soon…***EDIT*** I actually did manage to get it up tonight!! So go check it out...

We did also get to spend some time with the NJ Trovatos who were visiting with my Grandparents… but… I didn’t take too many pictures there… so.. until next time.. here’s my cousin Vince.