December 26

Every two years --when we're back in MD for Christmas-- we take family photos and then go out to lunch as a group, so that's what we did this morning. There were many (many) configurations captured, but this is one of the entire group -- my mom, her husband, my brothers, my sister-in-law, and all of the kiddos (or as close to "all" as is physically possible, anyway):

Since we take these images so infrequently, it's kind of fun to look back and see how we've all changed (or not changed) over the past 13 years (because we took our first set back in 2004, when the first kids of the bunch --the now 13-year olds, Brendan and Abby-- were babies).

Very simple family time, but a tradition that I really do enjoy. (And a tradition that will hopefully continue on in the future.)