2nd Annual Christmas Eve Party at the Gentrys!

This year was our 2nd Christmas in Boston, but we had a good reason not to travel (see below posting). Last year we had a rockin' good time where we started a new Christmas tradition of having a Christmas Eve Party with those who were not going to be visiting family for the holidays.
This year we held the 2nd Annual Christmas Eve Party.We had some great friends come over for an Italian dinner.There was no lack of food, we had a cheese ball, brie,a veggie tray, salad, stuffed shells, garlic bread, lasagna, fudge, toffee, cookies, etc.

Here are all the composers talking shop during dinner(exciting conversation as you can imagine).

We had an entertaining Yankee Swap, where I ended up with the DVD, Girls Just Wanna Have Fun. There were other great gifts such as a dog biscuit baking kit, some gold toed socks and the violin music book for Les Miserables.
Afterward we sang Christmas Carols around the piano, it was pretty great. We tried to sing that Christmas Song, Fum Fum Fum but man that is a fast song and those are the main words that everyone knew, so it didn't go so well. Silent Night went a lot better.

After Christmas Caroling, we read and acted out the Nativity Story. We understand this is usually acted out by the children in the family, but we only had grown adults, so we did the best we could. The Santa Teddy played a great Baby Jesus. This is the new designer glasses version of Joseph and Mary.

This is the Shepperd watching over his flock; McDuff played the great role of "the flock" and was so cute doing it. Peter also looks great in C's blue bathrobe and beard grown for this special night.

It really was a fun night and we feel so lucky to have such wonderful friends with whom we can spend the holidays. We hope we can carry on this fabulous tradition, as every year it gets more and more fun!