Christmas 2023!

We tried to celebrate with Colombian traditions and Leo said never again. Mostly because instead of opening presents on Christmas morning, you open presents at midnight on Christmas Eve. Also, we all tried lechona (a stuffed pork thing) and none of us liked it, even Leo, one of those better in your memory things. And no one was a fan of natilla (flan like desert made from sugar cane), but I bought buñealos almost every other day (round fried cheesy dough deliciousness), so one of their traditional Christmas foods was awesome. We were playing a card game above.

For Christmas Eve dinner we went to Crepes and Waffles.  😍

Here's our little tree and decorations from Amazon.

Weirdies.

We had Christmas socks instead of Christmas pjs this year.  It was cold in the house with no heat so they were kind of the thick slipper socks.  

Baby Jesus, not Santa Clause delivers presents in Colombia.  So the kids were so happy he brought cereal from the States (thanks to Pricesmart.)

See the happiness!?!!!

Opening presents at midnight!

Opening presents at midnight leads to putting together Lego sets at 2 AM.  

The older kids got Grayl water purifier bottles.  

I actually had brought the Christmas presents with me to Colombia because I didn't know that Amazon delivered there.  I was pretty proud of my planning ahead even though it ended up being unnecessary.  

I love the sets they got though.  

The off road truck has suspension.

Above was our Christmas dinner that we ended up just throwing away. Eek. 

Buñealos and lechona.  Probably would have been better fresher and hotter. 

 For being a very simple Christmas (although the kids went on two vacations that next summer so it was like Christmas going both times) it ended up really good.  

And before Christmas we celebrated my birthday and I got slippers because my feet were always cold in the morning!