Christmas love

I have been lost without my camera these last few months.  Beginning in the summer, it started over-exposing shots using the flash and in bright light.  As most of you know, I am a huge photo fan and always have my camera at the ready for a good photo opp so being without it has been almost painful to me. 

Since I am saving for a 'good' DSLR camera, I can't afford to buy another point-and-shoot so I got fed up last week and had a good sit down with my faulty camera's manual to figure out if there was a way to manually adjust the exposure to get rid of the glare.  I finally figured out some options so my camera could at least take some shots...with a bit of tweaking.  I obviously prefer photos to words so I wasn't blogging much either.  Hopefully now that I am back to having some pics, I can keep friends and family more up to date.

We celebrated Christmas on Christmas Eve since Christmas fell on a Sunday this year.  Dave requested some chinese food that he could eat since he hadn't had any in a year and a half so Heath and I did some research and put together some recipes that were as close to 'legal' as we could get for Dave's diet.  Brian & Michelle joined us with little Nolan after supper. 


Dave warming his hands by the 'Fireplace Channel' broadcast : - )



The family all ready to tuck into some yummy food



Chinese food - rice (not eaten by Dave), Sesame Chicken, stir-fried vegs and Thai Spring Rolls with peanut sauce



Nolan intently watching Dad play the guitar.  He was totally engrossed!

Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas with family and friends to share it with!