Saturday, December 26, 2009

Merry Christmas 2009

Merry Christmas from Longmeadow!  We had a wonderful, beautiful, special day yesterday with all of the Shaughnessy cousins.  The girls love playing together even more so now that they have all new toys!  Here are some highlights of Christmas Eve and Christmas day.

We started Christmas Eve with some baking.  It takes a little while when each child has to take a turn pouring, measuring, etc.




Our Christmas Eve dinner was paying homage to Garland's tradition of enchilada's growing up.  It wasn't Brown's from San Antonio but it was certainly delicious! And it was made with Wolf Chili, second day aired from Dallas, TX.



Before bed, all of the girls received a new pair of Christmas Eve jammies. Tear the paper, girls, just rip it!



A little snack for Santa and his reindeer.



Holy smokes-would you look at that loot?



These are some happy kiddos Christmas morning.



Santa even treated Garland this year--he is quite happy (and sore) with his new Wii.



The various dollhouses were a big hit this year with all five girls.



The best thing about girl cousins....they LOVE each other's company.



Mary Larkin and Maeve, best buddies.



Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Flannery's Preschool

Here is our unfinished basement that I converted to a playroom with my handyman, Mario's assistance.  Well, ok, he did all the work and I just paid the bills.  Regardless, it is a GREAT space to make a mess with glue, sparkles, stickers and markers!  Come on over!