This year we had three parties with Eric’s side of the family. We spent December 15th at Bob & Pat’s with Tim and Elaine. We were supposed to head over to Helen & Ken’s later that day, but Eric was battling a killer cold, so we postponed it till the 22nd. We then visited Liz & Don on the 29th. Emily now gets the concept of Christmas presents, which makes a huge pile of Secret Santa gifts irresistible. The best part is she actually cleans up all the gift wrap when the party is over.

We spent Christmas day with Bahar’s side of the family. If our tree looks a little funny this year, it’s because Mo put it up and ran out of lights by the bottom.

We spent New Year’s with Bahar’s family and New Year’s Eve at James’ playing Guitar Hero and board games.

We met up with Georgia at Joe & Elaine’s during her visit this fall. Georgia spent her time here learning British phrases, courtesy of Ken, and ensuring Eric was so sick of hearing about the website that he would actually get it up just to avoid being spammed. Well, it worked!

We also celebrated Helen’s birthday!

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