Christmas 2010 Part 2

We arrived home on Christmas Eve afternoon. Matt and I decided that this Christmas we would start some traditions for our little family of three. I wanted to start the tradition of having Mexican food for dinner on Christmas Eve. My grandmother, Granny, would have all of my family over on Christmas Eve to have dinner which consisted of tamales, enchiladas, rice and beans. I have restarted this tradition for my family. The big difference is that I am not cooking the food like my Granny did all those years. She would buy the tamales but she made the rest of the dinner. Yes, we are white but when you are a white women, born and raised in South Texas you can cook good Mexican food.  Well, really it was Tex-Mex food. I guess I should learn but the Corner Stop on Ben Ficklen Road in San Angelo has really good tamales and beef gorditas! So when we got back to town Matt and I wanted to go visit Matt's grandmother, Nana, but she was sick. Hodge and I stayed home and got things organized for our Christmas and Matt went to visit with her. Matt came back with our Christmas Eve dinner from Corner Stop. We had a great takeout dinner and I even enjoyed a Big Red. I never drink them but what the heck it was Christmas Eve! I even gave Hodge some, he loved it! I grew up drinking Big Red like it was water. That night after our Tex-Mex dinner we hung-out and relaxed. We also sprinkled reindeer food on our lawn. Hodge made it at his school. As we walked in the house after sprinkling the food he yelled, "Bye bye reindeer, bring presents!" The next morning Hodge opened a few gifts, he had already received his big gift earlier in the month (his Rainbow Play System). After opening gifts we had a big breakfast cooked by Matt. This is Matt's new family tradition for us. His family would always have a big breakfast after opening their toys so we made this one of our new traditions. After breakfast Hodge played with his new toys some more and Matt and I got ready for our second trip of the Christmas Holidays. We headed south to my parents house after lunch on Christmas day. We had a fun Christmas in our new house and I really enjoyed our family traditions that we are carrying on to our little family. 

The boys enjoying their Mexican food, notice my Big Red!

I set the timer on my camera for this one.

Hodge's Magic Reindeer Food.

Getting ready to sprinkle the Reindeer Food.

Hodge throwing the reindeer food in the yard, you can see it sparkling in the air!

Hodge waking up Christmas moring. When he opened the door we told him that Santa had come to our house. Hodge slammed the door shut. I guess he thought Santa was still at our house. 

Hodge opening his gifts.

Merry Christmas!