This Christmas …

The Christmas craziness is over…. and I miss it already… haha…I just finished watching Miracle on 34th street (its a tradition…to try and watch as many holiday movies as I can during the Christmas season :p).

Yesterday (Christmas Eve) I went to my Uncle’s house for a Christmas get-together with my immediate family (there are a LOT of us…I have 14 cousins just on my mothers side!). It was a FULL house and as usual, a great family get-together. Every year we do little skits, re-enactments, holiday karaoke, and a little “Christmas play” that my mom usually coordinates (and we film every year). Ate a ton of food of course consisting of crab, mussels, turkey, codfish (Portuguese tradition), wine, etc and of course…sweets and coffee to top it all off!

Christmas Day is always spent at my house…where we open our presents in the morning (first picture above)… then have a Christmas lunch which ALWAYS includes Turkey (second picture) and after that we always go to my aunt’s house to visit her and my grandfather (on my dad’s side). I finish off the night by spending Christmas night at J’s house with his family.

Well, I guess its onto the gifts :p

As usual, my loved ones spoiled me ….

I got CD’s (Stereophonics and The Velvet Underground), Clothes (two dresses- one BCBG and one Marciano), some plaid shirts (studded and ruffled), a zippered F21 leopard dress, lots of jewellery including a silver chain and beaded necklace, Birks necklace from J which reads “Live, Laugh, Love” and has a tiny center diamond, Tiffany Earrings and bracelet, Aromatherapy gift set (so neat), Boots from Browns shoe store, black puffy BCBG jacket (first picture..Maxi, my dog, seems to like it!), and the game Scrabble =)

Hope you all have a wonderful Holiday Season! I have a few days off work which is nice (this is sort of a mini-vacation for me!) and next up: New Years!!