Merry Christmas Eve 🎄 When we were growing up we always celebrated Christmas the European way so Christmas Eve was always Christmas. As a family now with our children we celebrate Christmas in the traditional American way but to me, once its Christmas Eve, its Christmas. And I love Christmas 🙂 🎄

Nana made an amazing brunch for Christmas Eve. It’s obvious she’s spent days in the kitchen getting ready for today and the next few days. Nana has a flair for parties and presentation so its especially fun to see her new recipes and how everything is presented. We had a lovely Xmas Eve morning brunch with family and friends.

We headed back to Oakland for the 5 0’clock Xmas eve mass. It was nice to see and give hugs to many Corpus friends that evening.

Julia’s came over to my moms and we had a delicious and our family (growing up) tradition of having mushroom soup and fish for xmas eve dinner. But better than any other year…was that we ate the amazingly fresh fish Edwin and Vera caught the other day. It was so delicious. Julia’s stayed for a bit after dinner, but not long because we knew tomorrow would be a big day and we wanted the girls to get a good nights sleep.

Edwin and I did our usual Xmas eve evening of after getting the girls asleep and helping the Christmas elves, we went down to Jason and Adams Xmas eve party and had a night cap.