That's smiling nice for ya. She smiled nice.
Okay, better. He also does his drunken communion thing, "Blud of Chrisst, shad fer ya." It's real uplifting.
Okay, over the next couple hours the gift pile GREW.
And there was a feast.
Back in the day, we chose an alternate date for our family Christmas party to minimize stress on the actual holiday. We had no idea what a genius plan this would later become. There's no set date for this gathering. Before Christmas? After? Does not matter. It's only togetherness that does.
Heather was here too, always wonderful.
The babies were too excited to eat, surprise, surprise.
He liked it, hey Mikey.
Little Jay brought his girlfriend home for the party. She was a good sport, took her Claritin to help with the dog hair and there were a couple points where her eyes were a little big, but that's okay. She showed up and battled both sensory overload and dog hair at the same time, and God knows we love a good sport.
Plus she makes Jay happy.
Okay this is p.j. and her mom and there was a Hello Kitty airplane that Alicia bought a few months ago, saving it for Christmas. Dan said both his boys were so obsessed with the Hello Kitty airplane that it became somewhat obnoxious.
Well, the power of the Hello Kitty? It pretty much blew her other gifts out of the water.
This is a handmade Barbie tent Dannell got at a craft fair, and one for p.j. too--way easier to set up and more sturdy than the regular ones from years past.
At some point, late in the evening, they all congregated in here with a roll of cracker and a Grinch DVD.
The other guys were in here.
It was a lovely Christmas party, nice and wild. Love you all so, Mom, aka Grandma
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