Eli celebrated his birthday with a Christmas party. He has been talking about Christmas since last Christmas, so this was the way he wanted to work out his never ceasing Christmas spirit.

Handing decorations on the tree

Christmas Eli

Finn & Oli join team Santa

Decorating gingerbread men

Taking in the Christmas spirit (which was helped along with continuous Christmas tunes playing)

Rudolf cake (with his flaming ears)

Mr Christmas after blowing out the candles

Preparing for the treasure hunt – Santa’s sleigh has crashed and the children need to help find all the presents!

The girl team was definitely more organised than the boys, mostly because they actually checked their map

Christmas Eli and his helper handing out the presents that they found

Heather, channelling her inner reindeer

Say, “Ho, ho, ho”

The Clayton girls

The pond is always a hit with the boys

Grace also decided to organise an activity – making paper Christmas trees. It might have been a little too trick for the younger crowd, but the adults seemed to have fun helping.

Opening (and playing with) presents after the party

And finally, the party food, starting with flying reindeer pizza

Fruit & cheese Christmas tree

Frosty the cream cheese snowman….or penguin.

Brownie Christmas trees

Santa hats

Quiche stars

Meringue Christmas trees

Cotton ball snowflakes