Christmas, Boxing Day and a Hockey Tournament

What a crazy past few days!  I’ve been off work since last Thursday and it feels like I’m just now able to sit down and relax.  PHEW!  Christmas Day, shopping in T.O on Boxing Day plus a get together at a friend’s place and a hockey tournament on Monday & Tuesday.  All of it was so much fun that being beat out is SO worth it!  I hope everyone had a FABULOUS Christmas Day!!   We spent the day split between our place and my parents place.  We started with gifts here:   Santa was mighty generous to us this year, but the BEST part of Christmas morning for me is watching my kids dive into all their gifts.  DS thought that air hockey table was the best thing ever.  LOL  After presents at my place we did presents at the ‘rents:
**Side note—in retrospect, Vampire’s Suck probably wasn’t the most age appropriate movie for her.  DOH!** Next was our traditional brunch which always includes Dad’s fresh salami which is still not cured enough to eat raw.  In years past Mom use to fry it with tomato paste, but now we cook it in the oven which is slightly more healthy.  ;)  My sister also scrambled 2 dozen eggs for the bunch of us!   Here’s my plate:
I had planned to do Jillian’s Michael’s Shred it with Weights DVD when we got home but my hubby and I decided to take advantage of the clear skies and went for a 3 mile walk instead….kid free.  It was great.  I squeezed some grapes in at this point for a snack: Then it was back to my parents for dinner!  Mom put on an awesome spread; turkey, stuffing, cheesy mashed potatoes, peas, broccoli, homemade cranberry sauce, buns….her broccoli was even shaped like a Christmas tree!
I made sure to get some of everything, extra stuffing/half a bun! And dessert was a pumpkin cheesecake AND Mom’s signature Tiramisu.  I shared some cheesecake with DD and dove right into a decadent piece of Tiramisu! Anytime we have turkey at dinner DS devours a leg.  Nobody ever thinks he’ll finish it but he always does.  Here’s the proof:
I think we rolled home!  LOL  But not before DS and my sister duked it out over their favourite hockey teams!
My bestie has been in town for the holiday’s and called bright and early on Boxing Day to see if DD and  I wanted to do some shopping in Toronto.  Hell ya!!  We knew the mall we were going to would be insane and it was, but Lululemon is there so we didn’t care!  I did care when amidst the craziness of trying to find a parking spot DD spotted a cat that had been left in a vehicle in very cold temps; Who does that?  Even if the poor thing likes car rides, it certainly did not like the commotion of the parking lot.  Sheesh!  But back to shopping…we found some pretty good deals!  Lululemon was definitely the highlight, though.  Even with the 20 minutes wait just to get into the store.  I took some pics in the dressing room of what I bought,   

I also got another pair of very cozy pants, plus a pair for DD as part of her Christmas presents.  The above sweater kept me very warm on day one of the hockey tournament!  We stopped briefly for a quick bite to eat.  I went with a mushroom panini and a freshly squeezed cup of mango juice: We made it back home in time for a quick make up refresh before heading over to our friend’s place for a get together.  No photos from there, but it was such a fun night!  We caught up with old friends and made some new ones while enjoying a few drinks.   It had to be an earlier night than we would’ve liked because we had a 6am wake up call for the first hockey game of 3, plus a skills competition in 2 days.   These are some photos that one of the Dad’s took over the course of the tournament: And I’ll post this quick video from the soot out that DS participated in, too!!

He had such a blast!!!  HAHA!  The first day of the tournament the whole team went out for breakfast.  I ordered a yogurt parfait/bagel and just have to post a photo of the presentation of it because it was just so cool!
And last, but not least, some other eats from the past few days that have been pretty fabulous, too: Well, I’m off now to catch up on all your awesome blogs!  I can’t wait to see how everyone has spent the holidays…
Bye for now!!