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This year we had so much fun going to different Christmas parties.

  The first two pictures are from the Martinez family party.  It was on the evening of the 23rd...we all had a really great time!  There was an ugly Christmas sweater contest and the kids got to wrap each other up in toilet paper to make snowmen.  The food was yummy (that everyone contributed).  The kids had quite the feast of desserts...they were thrilled!:)  It was so nice to feel like we belong and can make great Christmas memories while we live here.  The next group picture is from the morning of Christmas Eve.  Lots of families got together and we went bowling.  It was really great to get out and do something during the day and still be able to come home and enjoy our own little families Christmas Eve...this might become a tradition:)  I don't have pictures of anything else we went to so I don't remember...:)  The last picture is of cousins Kate, Emma, and Caroline in matching Christmas jammies just like Eliza's...thanks Gramme and Poppy!