Day 358 - December 24th (Christmas Eve)

Christmas Eve afternoon Lara and I did some festive baking. It's become a tradition that Lara bakes the mince pies on Christmas Eve and this year was no exception.

Our friend Kay kindly made us some ginger cookies for Christmas and with the cookies she gave us some tubes of icing to decorate them ourselves which Lara enjoyed doing.

I made a non-traditional Christmas cake - Christmas tree shaped sponge with butter cream and M&M decorations.

When it got dark we sprinkled Reindeer Food on the lawn to make sure Santa found our house......

..... and just before bedtime a tray with a drink and snack for Santa and a carrot for the reindeer was left by the fireplace.