Well the first one to wake up is always Miguel. He runs into our bed and asks if he can wake up Bubba and Sarah. He is so excited! We grab our robes & coffee and head to the living room. Look, Santa ate the cookies and drank the milk! We settle in our places and Miguel opens his first gift, then Sarah opens her gift from Santa. We chat about Christmas and memories from years past. This year Angela and Jason spent Christmas in Corpus with Jason’s family. Of course we give them a call to wish them a Merry Christmas — I think we woke them up! 
We head to Christmas Mass at St. Mary’s Church downtown. After Mass, we go to Ruby and Mark Montalvo’s home for the Ramirez Christmas celebration. All of Wayne’s siblings and families are there. Ruby and Mark have a slide show playing on the big screen T.V. for all to enjoy. The kids decided to throw the football outside. Then we eat. Ruby and Mark have prepared a wonderful spread of ham, yams, tamales, and sweets. Everyone brings a dish, but I think our favorite is Yvonne’s pretzel salad. Yum! The new toy this year is Rock Band, all the kids (no age limit) get to play. Now it’s time to open gifts. All the children get many gifts, the adults exchange names. This year we used Elfster, an on-line drawing system. It worked very well because you could enter a wish list or you could ask your secret santa an anonymous questions, etc. Opening gifts was fun.
Then we went on to play Taboo out on the deck. The weather was great and we had a great time playing the couple game of Taboo – and oh, did I mention, Wayne & I were the big winners! Christmas was a beautiful day and everyone had a great time!
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- Santa ate the cookies and drank the milk!
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- Christmas morning…
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- Miguel and Sarah opening presents
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- Mark M, Grace, Alex and Julianna
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- Miguel and Christian
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- Xavier is ready to tackle!
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- Lynda, Paul, Cory, Wayne, Grace, Julianna
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- Sarah and Wayne Anthony
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- Zachary, Emma, Renee and Rebecca
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- Christian and Miguel
