Christmas was different this year but still special.
The Sunday before Christmas we drove into San Jose to watch a Christmas parade. Maria enjoyed posing with Santa Clause, but Tony was scared of him.
The parade consisted of five floats. This one is the Fundaninos orphanage float. Most of the children were riding on the back and throwing candy into the "crowd". Charlie helped to make the reindeer antlers on the truck.
We carried on a family tradition by making graham cracker "gingerbread" houses. We invited the Freeds to join us. Unfortunately, because of the dampness in our house, all of our houses had collapsed by the next day.
The girls and I baked several batches of Christmas cookies. Here we're making chocolate gingerbread.
Another family tradition - On Christmas Eve we ate Pizza Hut pizza in our living room. This is the first time we've had a fireplace!
We also slept downstairs in front of the fireplace - all except Tony who was put to bed in his crib upstairs. But first we participated in a Guatemalan tradition, fireworks at midnight!
And, of course, Christmas morning we opened our gifts.
The Sunday before Christmas we drove into San Jose to watch a Christmas parade. Maria enjoyed posing with Santa Clause, but Tony was scared of him.
The parade consisted of five floats. This one is the Fundaninos orphanage float. Most of the children were riding on the back and throwing candy into the "crowd". Charlie helped to make the reindeer antlers on the truck.
We carried on a family tradition by making graham cracker "gingerbread" houses. We invited the Freeds to join us. Unfortunately, because of the dampness in our house, all of our houses had collapsed by the next day.
The girls and I baked several batches of Christmas cookies. Here we're making chocolate gingerbread.
Another family tradition - On Christmas Eve we ate Pizza Hut pizza in our living room. This is the first time we've had a fireplace!
We also slept downstairs in front of the fireplace - all except Tony who was put to bed in his crib upstairs. But first we participated in a Guatemalan tradition, fireworks at midnight!
And, of course, Christmas morning we opened our gifts. 
1 comment:
It looks like you had a nice Christmas, even though it was different than you were used to. A very memorable one though! Once you are back in PA again, I'm not sure you will be able to legally continue that fireworks tradition!
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