It was an eventful Christmas this year! Ben and I have been pretty sick, so we've both been sneezing, coughing and feverish. But the show must go on, and we prepared for Christmas eve at my dad's place. As always, we were running late because I had to cook and get Ben ready. We took a couple pics at the house when Dave's parents came by and then headed out to my dad's.

After looking at these pictures I realize that my #1 resolution this year is to get that baby weight off. I look like Shamu jumped into the pictures with Dave and Ben!

Anyway, Ben looks so cute in his little vest and tie! You can tell he's sick because of his watery red eyes and flushed face.

At my dad's place, we ate and ate and ate. We had a little violin concert, I kicked major ass at Mortal Kombat and then we took family pictures. We took pics of Ben, Kenzo and Jacob, but it was pretty tough since the little guys kept on looking in different place.

Once the pictures were done, the auncles and aunties did some karaoke, singing Christmas songs and songs that had nothing at all to do with Christmas. After all that, we headed out to midnight mass. I had only gotten an hour and a half of sleep the night before so I was exhausted. Fatima had to poke me several times to wake up. I love going to midnight mass at my dad's church because I get a chance to see a lot of people who I grew up with, all adult with their own families.

After church, it was time to hand out the presents!

It's always so much fun when the presents are handed out. Of course, we get a little jealous when all the kids get the presents - Kenzo had a million presents. It seemed like every 3rd or 4th present was for him. Ben also got his fair share of Christmas booty. However, he was already asleep since we had started handing the gifts out at around 2 in the morning.

After all the gifts were handed out, we all opened everything at once. The room is filled with "Wow!" "Thank you!" and "This is so cool!" and wrapping paper is flying everywhere.

I finally ended up going to sleep at around 4am. Fatima and the others went on even later than that. When I woke up in the morning (to Benjamin crawling all over me) we opened Ben's gifts. He was overwhelmed by all the presents he got. He also had three outfit changes when we were opening his gifts - because he puked on himself three times. Poor little guy! But although he was a little grouchy off and on, he was happy most of the time.

Later that day we headed out to Dave's family's place for Christmas dinner. Some of Dave's relatives were there so we exchanged presents.

Ben got even more, and even a personalized chair that he sat in when we took pictures.

We then passed out because we were so exhausted and came down from the sugar rush of leche flan and french silk pie. Each party produced a car load of presents, mostly for Ben. I spent most of yesterday putting together his toys. I never realized that just getting the darn things out the BOXES would be a challenge! The tie them in there real good! :-P

So I hope you all had a great holiday, and that you spent it surrounded by the warmth of the love of friends and family.

Check out my Christmas pics here!

Posted by Yano at December 27, 2006 02:18 PM

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