No, that's not a typo - we really did have Christmas in November this
year. Danny was only able to visit for Thanksgiving this year, so we had
our annual family Christmas gathering while he and Celeste were here. It
was just as fun, and we got Christmas out of the way early, which
satisfied me at least...
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Making the Pizza Because really, what says "Christmas" more than pizza?
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Piles of Wrapping Stuff Christmas is always a time of great labor just in the wrapping for us.
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Bridget She wasn't too excited for food that day, which was odd.
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Ben One of Danny's best friends, along for the food and company.
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Excited Danny One of his many moods.
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Shocked Danny I suppose that taking this many pictures right away was silly.
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Smiley Danny But he was happy to have the pictures taken.
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More Crap As always, Skirvin Christmas is about quantity over quality.
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Beth Out of focus, but it's still good to get pictures of her.
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Preparing for the Party Getting ready for a long period of loot.
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Dad, Ben, and Danny Ben was taking off, but he wanted to get one good picture of Danny first.
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Tired Celeste She was a little bit sick; I guess that the Illinois weather wasn't great for her.
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Margaret In a rare picture without a visible Bridget.
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Floating Rooster Potholder I like how Dad's hand is coming out of the Christmas tree.
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Bridget, Waiting She's always excited waiting for her biscuits.
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Answering Machine Mom's first gift of the night, which has given her the power to have a message other than "hello please record your message after the tone *beep*"
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Puppy Book It was about a dog that was saved in Iraq by soldiers. Beth is good at finding book gifts lately.
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Corn, the Movie There's sheep on the cover, whatever that means. (I think he bought it for himself.)
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Manspace: the Book Because Danny needed a book with the Christmas Story leg in it.
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Rooster Sign Can you spot the theme?
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Ginger Chews I've had these before, and they really are neat, if odd.
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Beth and Gifts Beth likes playing Santa, and she gets to do a lot of it at our house.
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Armadillo Purse I have that same armadillo, but not in stuffed form.
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Flying Mario Whoo-hoo! Whaa-hoo! (Etc. I can't really imitate Mario very well.)
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