Christmas Weekend!

Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas, we had a great one. I must confess that in November, when I thought about Christmas being around the corner, I was not very excited and was rather dreading it. Christmas has just not been the same without Mom, not only was this her favorite time of the year and made it the most exciting, but also her birthday was this time of year, and her passing was just shortly after New Year, so it has just left a bitter sweet taste to the holidays.
This year however was a lot of fun. While I do still miss my mom terribly and I still had my usual breakdown on Christmas Eve, there was something special about this Christmas. I realized when I started to pull out the tree, that it was my opportunity now, to create great memories for Vaughn, and any future children, and so we did!
The whole process was fun, decorating the tree, shopping for Vaughn was especially fun, and making the tamales, opening presents, etc.

We started our Christmas festivities by opening a couple of gifts (just Aaron, Vaughn and I) on Christmas Eve morning.
We then made the tamales for that evening, unfortunately I totally didn't think to take pictures of that. Then Beto, Lindsey and Dad came by for some tamales and gift exchanging with them. After that we went to the candle light service at our church, and afterward pozole with the West'.

Late on Christmas Eve we crashed at the Massa's (In-laws) to be there Christmas morning, for more food and gifts.

Oh, and finally joined up with Beto, Linds, and Dad for a movie Christmas Evening.


Here are also some pictures...