Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Christmas 2013


Ben and I both had work travel to the states in mid-December and used the opportunity to get the kids, and our nanny, back to the states with us early.  It provided some much needed extra time for the grandparents to see the grandkids.  The kids spent a week in Erie, then we all went to Rochester for a week, and then back to Erie for Christmas.  We took tons of pictures and hope you enjoy seeing the kids grow up.  The first set were all taken in Rochester with Ben's parents and his sister Val and her family.  Ben's dad used to be the fire chief in town and took the kids to visit the fire station.  They absolutely loved it.  














The picture behind them is Ben and Val when Own was Ben's age.  They look exactly alike.

All the cousins on the Crombe side.  Jake, Kate, Brooke, Dylan, and Owen

The "triplets" with their American Girls

Now onto Erie...



My sister, Annemarie, her husband Matt, and their beautiful son, Harrison

Cousins on the Breckenridge side

Pre church family pic



Owen loves Harrison and wants to "help" him all the time


Baby Harry




Christmas dinner

Abusing Uncle Brandon

Christine and Brandon admiring their own baby- the martini shaker

Christmas morning!

Happiest kid on the planet




Everyone hugging Grandma Missy


All the boys dressed alike


Four generations- Grandma Barrett, my mom, Breck girls, and kiddos

The boys practicing their sabre arch for the big wedding

Girls and their husbands

Owen practicing his own saber arch in Harry's jumparoo

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Sunday, March 30, 2014

Ugly Sweater Party 2013

Well, well, well.  Another year older and wiser…or so they say.

We can let the pictures do the talking.  Sweaters were superb, Santa was hilarious, punches were potent, dancing was legendary.

The day after was very, very ugly.




My girls 

Now that is not a jolly man

my elves


One of Santa's gifts

Santa was quite funny this year- don't know where he found this Vietnam era bumper sticker to go to the person with the most Vietnam era sweater.

Well didn't those little bottles come in handy


Any this is during party set up...


Get low

Somebody forgot their sweater.  This is during the "awards" ceremony, with Santa presenting gifts for the best sweaters.



You, my friend, just won a shot

Santa and his favorite elf