dpstyles™: Family portrait, pre-Christmas Eve mass.
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.
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?)
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?)
dpstyles™: Bertuccti's pasta [strike]replacing[/strike] augmenting the Ham of God we normally chow down on after church.
dpstyles™: Yankee Swap! Rob pulls the best number (#1) for the 2nd year in a row (!!). Lucky or CHEATER?
dpstyles™: Yankee Swap: 19 people, 19 gifts, 18 broken hearts.
dpstyles™: Yankee Swap: Rob was the big winner again this year with this Crowley Family / Family Feud collector's edition coffee mug!
dpstyles™: Yankee Swap! Dad was the big loser getting stuck w/ the Mr. Potato Head (not even a scratchie!)
dpstyles™: Yankee Swap! Technically Mr. Masterson come out as a "big winner" too thanks to this OVE GLOVE!
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!
dpstyles™: Gam + Anne = easy to please with a Kinko's calendar. :)
dpstyles™: Christmas Morning... Santa came again (sucka!)
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?)
dpstyles™: Round #1 = Santa gifts. Katie making out like a bandit (ah-gain)
dpstyles™: Round #2 = Family gifts. (And Katie making out like a bandit... again!)
dpstyles™: Mom and her cupcake PJs (from Shoops)
dpstyles™: Dig taking JJ's pocket-breathalizer for a test drive.
dpstyles™: A Crowley Christmas: This is how we roll.
dpstyles™: Mom fronting with her new racquetball setup (from JJ)
dpstyles™: Dad showing off his new fireplace gear (from JJ)
dpstyles™: I got JJ one of these highly sought after commerative (and collectable!) Barack Obama plates...
dpstyles™: ... and then JJ gave me a Barack plate too! (brother unite!)
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.)
dpstyles™: Mom: "I sure wish we had one of those wireless printers"... and that's where Denny comes in. BLAM! (and already set up!)
dpstyles™: Katie made us all these Family Feud coffee mugs. So rad.
dpstyles™: Our 8-pack of Family Feud mugs were from J.O.H. (aka John O'Hurley, host of Family Feud!)
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)
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)
dpstyles™: Dig and his Cape Cod tide clock (from Mom)