What a great end of the year/start of the year I have had. Back on Dec 19th, we had our annual Gingerbread House party and converted our kitchen and dining room into a Gingerbread house factory. We made 77 gingerbread houses which we donated to Atria Marland Place, a senior citizens home. They in turn gave the house to elderly residents and included them in dinners that were sent to elderly Adoverites who are house bound.
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Michael-Joe turned 21 on the 20th and we all went out to Yokohama’s to celebrate tapanki-table style. Mike and I bought Michael-Joe his first drink (ok, at least his first legal drink 
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We had a wonderful family Christmas celebration starting Christmas eve with the local Dantas clan. We celebrated the early mass at Merrimack College with our family and then had our traditional Chinese dinner back at the house with Mimi, Grandpa, Uncle Paul and Donna.
For Christmas, we went to Mimi and Grandpa’s and celebrated with the full Massachusetts Dantas clan. We had a wonderful dinner complete with awesome appetizers served during the Celtics game (doesnt get much better than that!). The kids had a blast reconnecting and hanging out. Check out my Dantas Christmas 2010 video.
After stuffing ourselves at Mimi’s…we headed over to Linda and John’s for dessert and the McDonough side celebration. The kids got xbox360 for Christmas and it was thoroughly enjoyed by the whole family. Jack delighted us all with his gamemanship and was cheered on by all the cousins, aunts, uncles and family members. Check out my McDonough Christmas 2010 video.
