We had a wonderful week prior to Christmas Eve...lots of preparing and visiting! This year we spent Christmas Eve at Steve and Kate's in Hamilton MA. We all went to church together as a family and then went back to their house to celebrate some December birthdays! Kate's birthday which is December 22nd and Joseph's birthday which is December 26th...We had a great night together as a family and the kids Finian, Conor, Maggie and Louise were so excited for Santa to come! (Me too, as can be seen by the photo)
The "adults" in the house were enjoying a glass of wine, and the two birthday kids were happy to pose for this picture. Butch was caught off guard... eyes closed. Thanks Kate and Steve for a great time and great food... Just in case anyone needs a pulled pork recipe, Steve has one down :)
The kids headed to bed and we (Helen, Butch , Joseph and I) headed to some old family friends, the McNamara's for our annual visit. This was a great evening and we enjoyed homemade lemon cello and Irish Baily's cream. The party went into the small hours of the morning, lucky we had a quite morning planned :) Thanks again to Lissy and Brian for a great evening.
The following morning we opened presents, had breakfast and did as planned... relaxed! The afternoon was to be spent in Waltham, so we took all the relaxing we could fit in.
What follows doesn't need an explanation but to say, as always we had a great evening with all our friends and family. All the people we hadn't seen in a while and especially the people we hadn't seen since the same time last year.
Joseph, Wendy, Anne, Jeb and Poppy(Mary... Joseph wore that hat all day long!)
Helen, Mag's and Wendy (see what a capri sun and do)
The cousins are my most favorite part of Christmas! I once read a saying that said, "Cousins are childhood playmates who grow up to be your forever friends"!!!
We had a very Merry Christmas!!! Feeling very blessed for all our friends and family around the world...Cheers!!!
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