In regards to my previous post - we were able to finish our Christmas shopping on Christmas eve. Even so, I still managed to wrap the gifts nicely and everything just before dinner. =] Anyway...
Christmas was really fun. On Christmas eve, everyone (family and such) came over for some "fine dining" experience - no kidding! My parents treated us to delicious dishes that one might have mistaken came from some fancy steak and seafood restaurant. Mm! We opened presents at midnight, as tradition indicates, and I seriously got more than I expected. & people liked my presents for them. The following day, Christmas day, the family attended mass then went respectively to our destinations for lunch (other side of the family sort of thing). Shortly after lunch, however, everyone met up at my brother's house. There, he and my sister-in-law cooked up some new and classic dishes. More people. More gifts. More fun. More great memories. =)
That was pretty much my Christmas in a nutshell. In just a few days, it will be 2009. I'm still iffy on making a new year's resolutions list. We'll see...