It was our first time to spend Christmas eve in our own house. Since my dad was not able to go home for the holidays, Ramil and I just asked my family and his family to visit us. On the 24th, my family came and spent the night in our house while Ramil’s parents visited us on the 25th.

The three of us attended mass at 8:30 p.m. and leaving for the church, we took some pictures of ourselves in front of the tree. Unfortunately, there was no one else with us at the time and Ramil and I were too lazy to set the timer on the camera so we were left without a complete family picture

Mateo got a lot for Christmas, most of them toys. After fixing all his new toys together with his old ones, I told Ramil that we are not buying any toys anymore. We ended up buying extra plastic containers to put his new toys in. We, however, didn’t even have gifts for each other. Haha! We opted to buy DVDs and do some shameless DVD marathon during the Christmas break. Of course, it would have been nice if we could afford something like a Westgate vacation but we don’t really mind.