Christmas!

We finished the NY leg of the trip with a visit from Rob and August, and a lovely Christmas Eve dinner at John and Lisa's with mom, dad, Mary, Ken, Jason and Maryanne.


We ate a full turkey dinner, enjoyed the fire and laughed a lot.




It started to get a bit silly during the present opening... and name-calling began ('ribbon head' caused the biggest reaction from the crowd.)


The much debated, annual gift of a cashmere hat that I give to my brother, TJ and other family members (often called the 'backstreet boy hat' by Sparky,) caused much frivolity that quickly somehow turned into an episode of 'white guys with gang signs'.

It was a very, merry Christmas!