I know I will want to remember this story one day, the time I hosted my first Christmas! I only posted our menu from our Christmas dinner but never got to talk about how the day went. We were 12 people for the day, My Parents, Matt & Nohra, Mike's parents, Nick & Stephanie, Mike's Grandma and Nohra's Mom, Susan. It was the perfect little crowd.
It was very chaotic when everyone arrived and bringing all the presents to our house this year and trying to open them all, everyone at once. I can't even imagine the amount of presents that would be involved if there were grandchildren. I honestly had no idea who got what this year and didn't get to see any of the gifts, but once that was squared away and we had room in the living room we were on our way to the food.
The first blip of the day happened during our appetizer course. I had everything set up on the coffee table in the living room, all the cheese and crackers, the hot appetizers, all the little sides and such. I was finally just about to sit down for the first time and Mike was carrying over a tray of food so I went to go make room for the tray and I picked up a wine glass from the top and my "strength" literally broke the glass. It shattered right over all the food and poor Susan. So that was fun, we had to clean that all up, I was so disappointed, I still can't even believe the class broke like that.
Once we were able to enjoy what was left of our appetizers that weren't soiled, we were ready for the main event. We started off with our salad and pasta course. It was around then when we were getting ready to put the beef tenderloin in the oven, Stephanie noticed it was frozen solid. Mike's Mom had bought beef tenderloin for Christmas dinner, which we usually have at her house, and she had given it to us to serve with dinner. She gave it to us on Sunday night when we were down there for dinner, but Mike and I didn't realize it was frozen, so we just put it in the fridge when we got back to our house. Stephanie was then trying to come up with ways to defrost these huge chunks of beef. She wrapped them in saran wrap and filled the sink with scolding hot water. We eventually got them slightly defrosted and put them in the oven, well these things took forever to cook and were still pretty rare. Good thing we had nine pounds of ham, looking back that was also far too much ham for just 12 people, note to self for next time.
Finally it was make your own K cup for coffee for dessert. We had the giant coffee pot all ready to go only to realize Mike and I didn't have any coffee grinds in the house since we're so used to using our kureig that we didn't even remember to buy coffee! Oh well.
Other than that it was a great night, I guess everything can't go perfect, especially since it was my first time hosting Christmas dinner. I'm glad Christmas only comes once a year though. Here's some pictures of our Christmas dinner.
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