Random Thoughts

This is my long overdue post about how we celebrated Christmas and New Year.

After packing our stuff and I mean a LOT of stuff, we went to the in-laws to spend the holidays. We stayed there until the 30th and then went to Tagaytay to spend the New Year. The whole time, Hubby and I were just shifting on taking care of the kids. It was tiring but fulfilling if I think about it now.

On the 24th, we heard the anticipated mass at the clubhouse around 7pm. We were glad to hear mass early actually because our Christmas day will be very busy. After the mass, we ate dinner.

Hubby and I ordered roast beef from Conti's for the dinner. It was yummy as usual. We ordered a few days before the 24th and according to Hubby the place was packed when he picked up our orders.

I was surprised that the little girl was awake until 2 in the morning! I didn't expect that she will be opening her gifts at midnight. But because her cousins were also there, she had all the energy the whole evening! After taking some family photos, we ate Noche Buena.

Here is another FAILED attempt of our family picture. LOL!




Then we started opening our gifts after eating Noche Buena.



I was soooo sleepy and tired that I wasn't able to open everything. Hubby and I just opened the rest of the gifts in the morning. We were glad that the little girl loved the wooden doll house and the city blocks that we gave her. She even asked Dada to build it for her right then and there.

Here are more photos of Alex and Andie with their gifts this Christmas.


Alex favorite gift from Lola - we named him Buster :)




Andie was asleep the whole time we were opening our gifts. She got to see her gifts in the morning.

Our Christmas day was mostly spent with my family. Look what the little girl got from Lola Yolly...


I'm sure you can guess what this is. LOL!

I got a lot of gifts this Christmas too...

- A complete set of hard bound Twilight books (thanks to BIL)
- A blouse and books from the in-laws
- Shawl from SIL
- Home stuff from Hubby's relatives
- Spa package from my family

Hubby on the other hand got a nice polo and 2 shirts and books.

Thanks everybody for the wonderful gifts! You made us really smile. :D

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On the 30th we went to Tagaytay. The moment we got there, we went straight to the playground.

 
 

Our New Year's Eve was just simple. We didn't have too much fireworks or firecrackers. We only had the fountain which Alex liked so much.



After watching some fireworks, we had a few photos taken, then we ate and then slept. You see, it was sooo cold in Tagaytay that all we wanted to do was eat, sleep and sleep again. LOL!

My family followed on the 2nd of January. They spent the night there. We really had a blast with them. We ate a lot too so this explains our upset stomach after the vacation. Haha.

The night they got there we had dinner at Dencio's and then after dinner we went to Starbucks to have coffee.




Some photos at home...



The next day, we had breakfast at Antonio's which was really good. I loved the place so much that I would want to go back there again. But probably with a thicker jacket. LOL! Too bad, it was sooo cold we didn't get to enjoy the hot chocolate that much. But the food was great we were so full. The service was a bit slow though but it was ok since we weren't in a hurry anyway.





After breakfast, we went home and rest and then had lunch again. After lunch we took a rest again then headed home. We stopped over Paseo de Sta. Rosa for dinner. But I think I will have to stop from here since it's getting late.

Just watch out for photos and stories of our dinner in my travel blog hopefully within the week. (*wink*)

So that's how our holidays went. Hopefully by next year, Andie is big enough for us to travel outside the country. And I hope we have the budget for that too. (*grin*)