Pictures from Christmas in Fall River

They had a tree:

And a crêche:

They put more energy into decorating than I do, so there are
also things like this mobile:

They also do a lot of baking. Here’s the baba after its
second rising:

I wasn’t in a good position to take pictures at the party when
all 40 people were trying to cram into the living room, so I
don’t have one of Judy
playing Chopin, but here’s one of our friend Harold playing
Christmas carols:

And here are a bunch of everybody being zonked after the
party. Judy had the best reason to be zonked:

Monte didn’t have as good a reason, but if you’d barked as
strenuously as he did at the beginning of the party to make sure
all 40 people knew it was his house, you’d be zonked
too:

Sunny doesn’t look so zonked, but he is anxious:

My mother, with 80 years of experience throwing parties, hardly looks zonked at
all:

We don’t know why Teddy was zonked: