Christmas of 2010 will go down in history as being a wonderful whirlwind of days. A beautiful Christmas Eve began with gingerbread cookie decorating with the girls (and just try to determine which ones were decorated by Mary versus me-- it's tough to tell!). Dinner and mass, followed by a gift opening extravaganza with the Loebs. We think Grandma Loeb found every single Littlest Pet Shop package in the Portland Metropolitan area!! Oh, the girls were overjoyed!
Christmas Day was celebrated with Santa gifts at home, and then dinner at the Buck house with all of the siblings. Grandma Buck suspected Santa would bring the girls their specially-requested American Girl dolls, so she ran a small sweatshop in her sewing room whipping up all kinds of gorgeous creations. And Auntie Em the Author was at it again with a new book, North to Alaska, featuring none other than Mary, Lucy, Chiara, and of course, the canines in the family!
The day following Christmas was the larger Buck cousin gathering, with all but two of the Buck cousins able to join. We had 30-some people, including 9 children (Mary's the oldest) and 8 pooches. Chaos. But, blissful chaos. Cousin Becky is a fabulous chocolatier (yes, that is a real job, amazing, right?!) and she brought a huge chocolate Santa of delicious 70% cacao chocolate. Yum. The kids were a bit tentative to smack Santa with the mallet (understandably so, given that he had just made their year with special gifts), but eventually dear ol' Saint Nick was broken apart to enjoy.
An incredible stretch of days, with many fond memories with precious family.
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I wish I had a cousin Becky, yum!
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