Holiday season with the family, extended family, old friends and new friends in an old house, in a quaint New England town.

How much better does it get than that? This Christmas season was a 5 day non-stop festival with some of the worlds greatest people. A great set of circumstances led us all to collect Sunday, with 3 clans descending on a single home. With Erin and I moving in the same house (duplex) with her rents, this season had an awesome sense of family unity. We welcomed very interesting combinations of friends and family with great success!

This was the roast prepared at my mothers house on Brown Street. Jack took this photo. I think Jack has an unhealthy obsession with meat of any kind. I catch him speaking softly to it.

Erin & her mother Deb… Deb looks deceptively nonplussed in this photo, but don’t be fooled. She was ‘the hostess with the mostest’ this weekend shuffling 2 homes and 3 dozen people.

Amber and her new baby, Noah. I love this photo. Noah is only 5 weeks old, and is the most freaking cute baby you will ever see. Good work guys.

My mother with the monkey. Mom was chef extraordinaire  with a 900 lb who-beast, a pile of potatoes that resembled Mount Agamenticus in size and tasted like butter and garlic, the two most magical flavors in the world.

Life is good. My wife, myself and Novalee. We really do love living in Kennebunk! We are having another child soon, and we can’t possibly express how exciting that prospect is. 2 down, 2 to go…

Jack (Bumpah) enjoying his time with Novalee. Jack was the chef extraordinaire on Sunday with piles and piles of meat on bread and every salad with meat that exists – crab, ham, chicken, the list goes on. Argh… Ill brb, im hungry….

Deb being entertained by a goofball. Novalee is a constant source of entertainment, and I think it’s because she knows it.

Both my queen and my princess were very happy this holiday season.

My queen, looking regal in purple and those strawberry and golden locks.

Novalee had these adorable little gloves that went with that awesome dress… she kept taking them off and asking us to put them back on again.

This was Christmas morning, Novalee has opened all her gifts and shes checking out her new dollhouse.

Novalee is obsessed with puzzles and she got plenty of them. I wonder what her career will be…

Jack and Deb and Maureen lined up watching the monkey tear open 500 gifts.

We were watching the Christmas parade. It felt a lot like Thanksgiving actually…

Now that Christmas is over, our lives will again return to normal.

Families will return to their everyday routines, and many of us will not see each other until next year.  While it sounds sad, we can all look forward to another week like this one in the not-to0-distant future.

With love from our family to yours – Merry Christmas all, And a Happy New Year!

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