Christmas Time

hey , long time no talk.I've been very busy these past weeks reconstructing(literally) our room.I will post photos of it anytime soon.So.. its Christmas Eve tonight.I will be helping in the kitchen for Noche Buena in just a few hours.Now let me just talk about our Christmas or how we celebrate it and what I always look forward to when Christmas.First off the 24th,for me,is the celebration or should I say the party,and the 25th is just the party-hangover,where we get a lot of money.Well,of course,everybody starts the countdown on the 100th day before christmas.I get really excited and I feel the spirit when the news or any talk shows or any shows start counting down.That's what I always look forward to and it gets me to the christmas spirit.And we attend the famous Misa de Gallo,everybody knows this except you innocent soul,so this is where in its first day you will trick yourself promising you'll never miss a mass,then after a few more days you grow tired and tired and tired of attending this absurd-ly early mass.The next thing is the building and decorating of the tree.This year this is how our tree looks like.

We celebrate christmas in my grandpa's house, the main house for any celebration.Everyone in our whole family tree all come together there to celebrate.So I guess that explains this mass of gifts that's ridiculously eating the space of the living area.It kinda looks like the gifts are swallowing the tree.Every christmas we have this monito-monita where we exchange gifts with whomever's name we picked and it usually lasts for hours because of our enormous number and sometimes has to start over.Now before the party, we all come and attend to mass,where after the mass people are rejoicing and everybody sings along with the choir,I will never forget that one moment where churchgo-ers go wild,party-animal-wild.Then,we go home and eat Noche Buena along with the famous ham and queso de bola.Then, usually the adults just chat around or sing videoke while we,young adults not children!,wait intently for the clock to hit 12 'o clock.But since the Wii came Wii Just Dance and Just Dance 2 all the way til midnight(ew sorry,that was so corny)And THE BEST AND MOST AWAITED PART:The opening of presents !!! YAAAAY !! thenafterthatwestayawaketildawn. Then,we wake up late on Christmas day and miss our ninongs and ninangs who come over.

                  Here's photo of us last christmas 

 Nope.Thats not the whole family there's more inside.

The table had to be extended outside for us to fit.

photos from ralph ubales :D