Christmas Eve

It's that time of year again. Christmas Eve at my brother's house - with our traditional Mexican food, Christmas story, and gift exchange. This year a small talent show was added. It was a lot of fun. The only thing missing was my parents who were unable to attend due to some health issues - that have been taken care of! (That was the best Christmas present this year!)

Doug getting ready for dinner to be ready:

Look at all those yummy dishes. We had two types of enchiladas, four tamale flavors, taquitos, burritos, 7 layer dip and taco salads:

Goodies - YUM!

Ryan & Baylee before all the festivities got under way:

The talent show consisted of Hayden, Chandler and Ryan playing piano. Baylee sang a song for everyone but I wasn't in the room at the time and missed getting a photo of her performance. Sorry about that! I did get to hear her sing - very cute and full of personality just like her!

Getting ready for the gift exchange. This is a tradition from my family since before I was born. My brothers and I have very fond memories of our childhood gift exchange. It's fun to see the tradition continue.

Ben took over my camera for a bit during the evening. This is one of the wonderful shots he took of me:

So I returned the favor with this beauty, don't you just love his new fashion accessory?