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A Crowley Christmas ver. 2008

A Crowley Christmas ver. 2008. All six of us back in Medway and kicking off with live blogging from St. Mary's church in Holliston, a 19-person Yankee swap at our house, 7:30am Christmas morning including such slamming gifts as Wii Fit + Shaun White for Wii (!!), Katie's new digicam, Jac's re-give boots, Mom's cupcake PJs and dual-action Barack Obama Commemorative plates. Lots of kitchen stuff too. All followed by dinner (and more present openin') at Auntie Jeans and then late night Rock Band (read: getting embarrassed by 8 yr olds) over in Framingham.

49 photos, 1 video | 382 views

items are from between 23 Dec 2008 & 31 Dec 2009.

Family portrait, pre-Christmas Eve mass. by dpstyles™

The Pre-church nips tradition is on it's 3rd year (read: 3 whiskey shots). Yikes. And man-oh-man, do I need a haircut. by dpstyles™

Post-church appetizers. I'm a big fan of the little meat slices in the mustard (and the SKRIMPZ!). That dip with the little guy sticking out of it (cream cheese and meat?) is also supah good (Mom, recipe?) by dpstyles™

Dad making the rounds w/ Uncle Jr's Clams Casino. These alone are worth the 4 hour drive back from NYC (Hey Uncle Jr, can I have some homemade lobster rolls for my bday??? Pleeeaaasssseeee?) by dpstyles™

Bertuccti's pasta [strike]replacing[/strike] augmenting the Ham of God we normally chow down on after church. by dpstyles™

Yankee Swap! Rob pulls the best number (#1) for the 2nd year in a row (!!). Lucky or CHEATER? by dpstyles™

Yankee Swap: 19 people, 19 gifts, 18 broken hearts. by dpstyles™

Yankee Swap: Rob was the big winner again this year with this Crowley Family / Family Feud collector's edition coffee mug! by dpstyles™

Yankee Swap! Dad was the big loser getting stuck w/ the Mr. Potato Head (not even a scratchie!) by dpstyles™

Yankee Swap! Technically Mr. Masterson come out as a "big winner" too thanks to this OVE GLOVE! by dpstyles™

SOUP DRAFT! (a new tradition? me + J each bought 10 soups and then we have an NFL style draft to see who keeps what). BTW, soups in Medway = 1/2 price compared to NYC! by dpstyles™

Gam + Anne = easy to please with a Kinko's calendar. :) by dpstyles™

Christmas Morning... Santa came again (sucka!) by dpstyles™

The Christmas stocking I've been rolling with since I've been, what?, 2 years old (it's undergone many rounds of reconstrutive surgery). Aunt Barbara made these originally (right, Mom?) by dpstyles™

Round #1 = Santa gifts. Katie making out like a bandit (ah-gain) by dpstyles™

Round #2 = Family gifts. (And Katie making out like a bandit... again!) by dpstyles™

Mom and her cupcake PJs (from Shoops) by dpstyles™

Dig taking JJ's pocket-breathalizer for a test drive. by dpstyles™

A Crowley Christmas: This is how we roll. by dpstyles™

Mom fronting with her new racquetball setup (from JJ) by dpstyles™

Dad showing off his new fireplace gear (from JJ) by dpstyles™

I got JJ one of these highly sought after commerative (and collectable!) Barack Obama plates... by dpstyles™

... and then JJ gave me a Barack plate too! (brother unite!) by dpstyles™

I had JJ's truck all iPod'ed up (though the dudes that were supposed to install it flaked on my appt after I DROVE 8 HOURS IN A BLIZARD to get the car home in time. Ugh. Eventually ended up getting it done on the 26th.) by dpstyles™

Mom: "I sure wish we had one of those wireless printers"... and that's where Denny comes in. BLAM! (and already set up!) by dpstyles™

Katie made us all these Family Feud coffee mugs. So rad. by dpstyles™

Our 8-pack of Family Feud mugs were from J.O.H. (aka John O'Hurley, host of Family Feud!) by dpstyles™

Katie and her new Baker's Edge (I got one for JJ got one. Alex, this is all your fault... J fell in love love love with Baker's Edge after seeing your ThanksG Mac and Cheese) by dpstyles™

My bestest gift = Wii Fit (and Shaun White snowboard for Wii). Mom and Dad were all over the place looking for this (just like when I was 8 years old all over again) by dpstyles™

Dig and his Cape Cod tide clock (from Mom) by dpstyles™

Mom and her filthy "Hot Priests of Italy" calendar (from Dad) by dpstyles™

Mom's favorite priest (This. Is. Filthy.) by dpstyles™

Gam soaking up the fatty meat using delicious lil' biscuits over at Auntie Jeans on Christmas afternoon. (Gam, what kind of face is that???) by dpstyles™

Gam & Anne gave me this Dennis' School Bus ornament (because apparently that's all I used to say when I was a wee lad... "skoolbus skoolbus!") by dpstyles™

Me and Shoops burying Gam under with the biggest gift of the season... by dpstyles™

... a giant framed pic of us on Family Feud (I know, I know... we have been milking this thing far too long :) by dpstyles™

The most fun part of Christmas this year may just have been opening Baby Emma (16 mos) gifts for her. Green-screen tech for toddlers is the future!!! by dpstyles™

Late night at MF's sister's place. The Mr. showing off his new Obama decor (via DPS via Danny Dever via our boy Shepard) by dpstyles™

RM trying to keep up against the wee kids (they SLAYED us - it was humbling to say the least). OH: "Playing on Medium is for baaaabbbbiiieeesss!" by dpstyles™

AJ on the left is a LEGEND with the xBox Guitar... it's amazing. Mercedes on the right is killing the vocals. Kiera (middle) usually runs the show on the drums. by dpstyles™

WoooooooooHooooooo! OMG I can't be any more psyched!!! And the Shawn White snowboard game!!! by dpstyles™

This I'd literally the best Christmas ever!!! by dpstyles™

I'm up a Wall-E, a snowboard video, a fire extinguisher, a smoke detector n some wine glasses! Bring on the family gifts!!! by dpstyles™

12:46 and my LAST Christmas gift is wrapped. Most of the gifts under our tree have some cutsey-family take on the To/From tags. Translation on this one: "To JJ old trix, from Denny Awesome" by dpstyles™

Jac rocking the Baileys nips on between last min Xmas shopping stops. by dpstyles™

@ China Lotus in Medway. And heeellllooo new Crowley Christmas Tradition!!! by dpstyles™

Remember those dancing Elf Yourself things from last holiday season? Old news to us, but Gam COULDN'T GET ENOUGH of this! (She watched it maybe 10x over Xmas eve... showing everyone in arm's length. So funny.) by dpstyles™

Christmas 2008 Hall of Fame! (and heeelllloooo NYC! so good to be back, even if just for a day!) by dpstyles™

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