It seems such a long time ago that Marguerite arrived home one night with this cool wee Nutcracker man. You can see there he tells you exactly how many days it is 'til Christmas - magic, wha?. It was 38 days at that stage. What happened then?
Well Jude's work 'The Irish Immigration Center' had their annual Solas Awards dinner at the Seaport Hotel in Boston for starters. Here are Jude's muckers Nancy and Ann Marie having fun at the dinner table.
Ann Marie found a new friend......eh.....thon flower pot thingymabobber.
The staff pic contained most, but not all, of the IIC staff. What a pretty bunch they are too, wha? But what of the 5 or 6 missing? Some must have been at the bar, maybe even at the bogs, or maybe just hiding to avoid having to get in the pic. Wha?
Breaking news!!!!! - Tonight the Irish Immigration Center announced it's new name - it will now be known as The Irish International Immigrant Center. This is of course very apt considering that the Irish Immigration Center currently serves people from over 100 nations around the world. The new name takes effect on 01st Jan 2011.
Oh yeah, Jude put up the Christmas Tree in Apt 52, 111 Park Drive. And what a stunner it is too. This is without doubt the hippest, coolest and most dazzling rock n roll Christmas Tree ever folks. Don't you agree? Check out Jude's new Boston Celtics shorts there too folks, wha? And what about the haircut, wha?
Oh yeah, Marguerite's mucker Allie and Allie's Mum hosted their annual Gingerbread House making day just prior to Christmas. They have this get together every year where they all build magic Gingerbread houses out of...............sweets. Yeah sweets, how brilliant is that? Here is Allie preparing the table in the 'land of sweets' (Nutcracker - anyone, anyone......oh never mind).
Marguerite calls upon her old lego building skills as she tries to fix the gingerbread walled structure of her house together.
'Hi-ho, hi-ho, it's off to work we go', sing Ashley, Krystle and Sarah as the houses begin to take shape.
Could Niamh manage this complicated, seemingly impossible yet highly entertaining task without her sidekick /partner-in-crime Victoria. Could she cope without her?
Allie and Linda (Allie's mum) are old hands at this game. It's a great family pre-Christmas tradition and one that provides for a super fun packed day. It clearly also took to hearts of some Irish girls (Marguerite and Niamh).
'Stop eating the bloody sweets Allie, they're not really sweets mucker, well not today anyway like, they're tiles, for yer roof like, ye edjit ye, what are ye like', says Niamh in her County Armagh accent.
Before long the Gingerbread houses had come together......
......and everyone was delighted with their work.
'Should I eat it......mmmm........or should I keep it and let Jude see it.......mmm.......nahhh should I just eat it.......
'Look Jude, sure it looks just like our wee Hamill Park', says Marguerite.
Oh yeah, did Niamh cope in the kitchen today without her super sidekick extraordinaire Victoria? Well.............
........well of course she did. Check out this cool house.
'I'm going to do this on a Saturday before Christmas every year at home from now on', said Marguerite. 'That's fine, no bother at all, but just make sure I'm well offside, no kids under the age of 10 are there to wreck the joint and make sure you clean up after you', replied grumpy old man Jude.
The 3 red Amigos - Linda, Marguerite and Allie.
Marguerite's perfectly crafted Gingerbread house now resides in the auld apartment on Park Drive. Doesn't it look well with the auld tree there like?
Oh yeah, the IIC also had their 'Yankee Swap' party a couple of days before Christmas too. A Yankee swap is where everyone brings a gift to a set value (for us big spenders it was $10), then you draw out numbers to see who gets to pick a gift first. However you don't want to be one of the first to pick because if you pick a good gift early then someone else can come along and take your selection and leave you with a piece of.....eh.....junk.
Abby was Santa/chief organiser today.
Jude's all excited as he gets his pick.
Today also happened to be Sister Lena's (IIC Excutive Director) birthday. 'Happy birthday to me, happy birthday to me, haaaaaaapy birthday tooo meee, happy birthday to me, yippeeeee', was about all you could get out of Lena all day. Here she is cutting her cake.
Ann Marie is all excited as she selects her gift. Meanwhile the auld angel atop the tree has had a few too many swalls at this stage one would think, wha? Actually the angel is nearly as big as the tree!!!!
Jude knows what's in that bag as that is the gift he brought to the gig. But after having seen the ehhh 'brilliant' gifts opened so far he decided he'd be better off trying to nab his own back - only to be called out with, 'ah naa ye can't do that'.
So he selected one of the other gifts and to his amazement he got a $10 itunes card and a bar of Irish Chocolate. Nice. That prompted him to declare, 'hey this is class folks, I think we should do this more often, wha.' However his smile soon disappeared when someone else nabbed his $10 card and chocolate and left him with a lump of plastic disguised as a mobile phone holder. Like, why would you need a mobile phone holder, and worse why would you even consider buying one? 'Daylight robbery that was, bloody daylight robbery', he mumbled. It took him a good three days to get over that one folks.
'Happy birthday to me, happy birthday to me, haaaaaaapy birthday tooo meee, happy birthday to me, yippeeeee', sang Lena.
The build up to Christmas, the silly season as it's called at home - sure it's all only a bit of craic. Ann Marie, Jude and Ali have a 'team-pic-minus-Nancy' photo as the party is only getting started.
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