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| Napping with her three favorite new gifts. |
The kids were exhausted and napped most of yesterday. All the excitement, even at 15 years old and 40's/50's "something" can conquer the best of us.
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| Exhausted and mad we took over his living room all morning. |
There has been a growing trend in our family, when it comes to the presents I receive every Christmas....who can make mom cry first with their gift. I tend to get very sentimental and emotional during Christmas morning. Perhaps it's the lack of sleep in the weeks prior to the holiday, the crash from too much sugar testing during my marathon baking nights or it's simply the fact that I am so thankful to be incredibly blessed with our family and the gifts given to us each and every day.
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| ...and the winner is... |
Hands down, husband won the cry award this year. I opened his gift and completely lost it...choked up, couldn't speak and tears streaming down. He made a collage of our family for me. He and my daughter picked the frame and matting out together and he got the girls to help him select and print the photos. He knows how much family and cherished memories of photos mean to me and I know how much time, effort and love went into his gift. Yep, he won!!
In the spirit of pictures, he also bought me an entirely new camera set up, complete with bag, tri-pod, different lenses, remote control for the timer photos. I am going to need college classes to learn all the amazing things my new toys can do.
My tired and old little Kodak has been through a lot. I have had it close to ten years and it has seen many scrapbooks, school projects, vacations, first days of school and birthdays. It has been forever faithful and good to me. It has had a difficult final year...the girls broke the flash during their photography class last year and during one of my cooking blog photos, it slipped out of my hands and I broke the lens protector...a rough year indeed. It has been looking very sad and tired these days.
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| Good-Bye My Friend |
In celebration of this memorable holiday and all our traditions, we continued with making our annual Classic Roast Prime Rib. My husband goes to great lengths to make this for us every year and it is always a very special treat for the family. We have tried close to a dozen different recipes and have now melded several into one.
Classic Roast Prime Rib
Courtesy of Husband and Many Memories
(1) Standing Beef Rib Roast (4 to 7 ribs, 9 to 18 pounds)
olive oil
(1) medium yellow onion
Seasoning is proportionate as follows:
1/2 Weber's Chicago Steak Rub
1/4 sweet paprika
1/8 Mediterranean sea salt
1/8 pepper
Remove the prime rib from the refrigerator and place in pan. Rub the entire surface of the cold roast with olive oil and coat evenly with the steak rub, paprika, salt and pepper. Cut onions into thin rings and cover roast.
Leave the prime rib out at room temperature for 2 hours. Preheat the oven to 450 degrees. When the oven is hot, put the roast in and cook for 20 minutes to sear the outside of the roast. After 20 minutes, turn the oven down to 325 degrees and roast until the desired internal temperature is reached. For medium-rare this will take approximately 15 minutes per pound.
Transfer to a large platter, and let the prime rib rest, loosely covered with foil for 30 minutes before serving, to let the juices redistribute. Serve with your favorite au jus.
Tonight we toasted our blessings and family with "Take Two" French Red Wine Blend. Look closely and you can even see the camera on the label - how cute is that?
Cheers and Blessings To Everyone
