We have so many things to be thankful for this Christmas....First we want to say Happy Birthday Jesus. We are thankful for having mommy and daddy, for our families and friends, and most of all for everything that Jesus has blessed us with. Our family is truly blessed that we have a beautiful home and that mommy and daddy were able to put lots of presents under our Christmas tree to give to our family and friends. We know that there are so many less fortunate families out there and so today and everyday, we will remember to always give thanks to God for everything he has blessed us with.
Christmas Eve celebration was held at our Grandma and Grandpa's home this year. We arrived to a house full of Christmas decorations, lots of presents and yummy bbq ribs, ham, and tamales that Grandma cooked. Today is the day that mommy and daddy will let us stay up all night so we can play games, eat lots of yummy food, and then open presents at midnight. We arrived back home around 1:30am. Our Santa tracker was on and we are excitedly anticipating his arrival so we changed into our PJs, placed the cookies and milk for Santa and off to bed we went.
After staying awake past our bedtime, we woke up bright and early Christmas morning (7am) so we can check if Santa stopped by...and guess what? He did. He ate the cookies we left him and drank all the milk! Santa left each of us a gift and filled our stockings with lots of treats. Brianna was excited to have received the Girl Tech Journal she asked for. The best gift of all was the Wii that Santa left us! We always wanted to have a Wii, and thanks to "Santa" we can now enjoy playing all the games it has. Oh...don't worry, we didn't forget to make and get a present for mommy and daddy. We made mommy and daddy a snowflake ornament with our pictures in it! They loved it.
Christmas Day celebration with mommy's family was held at cousin Caitlinn and cousin Chris' new home. Christmas Day was full of sweet deserts, like flan, fruit salads, turon (sweek bananas), cookies and other sinfully fattening snack foods. We stuffed ourselves with Honey Baked ham, lasagna, spaghetti, Portos Meat pies, Pancit, Ribs, and so many other yummy food. The sound of laughter filled the room as we played our yearly Christmas White Elephant game. We had so much fun opening really neat game gifts, as well as some gag gifts, like an onion, a potato, and a toilet paper. That was so funny!
After all the games have been played, it was time for the gift exchange. We are truly lucky that everyone was able to give and receive so many presents this year. It was truly a fun and magical day for all of us. We hope everyone had a very Merry and Blessed Christmas and may the New Year be a prosperous one for all.
