’twas the night before christmas…

…or the day before christmas.

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there was a break in the rain and mathew was outside again working on those steps! i joke that it’s “mathew vs. mother nature” and mother nature is winning, but mathew is making good progress despite too-short breaks from the rain.

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that night we had our annual bittleston christmas eve gathering. (left to right) jim, reirin, daniel, dan, leonora and mathew. i should have had someone take a photo of me and evamarie.

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after dinner, lots of laughs.

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(left to right) eva and reirin, leo and dan.

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taking a group photo was like a comedy of errors. and all of it secretly captured on dan’s video camera…

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