Christmas Eve 2008

Growing up, Christmas Eve was always the night my family had our big dinner and celebration, but for Jared, it was always Christmas Day. In order to meld the two traditions we just do it both ways and call it good:) Hey, two fun days...who could complain about that.




And so Christmas Eve at the Dubreuil house started with a lot of prepartory work. We cleaned, brought out all the nice China (that's right I brought out my China, I've got to use it at least once a year!!) and called in our order for our dinner!! LOL!! All of you know I don't cook, so calling in our dinner was not unusual for our house, especially when our dinner was a traditional Salvadorian dish that I could NEVER make.



So the nice people at "El Nuevo Amanecer" made our dinner of Pupusas and Curtido for us and we were quite the happy campers. This is the dinner my mom always had for us on Christmas Eve and it is one tradition that I have loved passing down to my kids. My kids LOVE Pupusas and gobble them down like there is no tomorrow!

Here is the Curtido. Sorry the pic is blurry but this is a dish made up of cabbage, carrots, and onion. This goes on top of the Pupusa.

Here is the Pupusa. In El Salvador this is their equivalent to our Pizza. It is eaten all the time!

Here are the kids waiting to eat their yummy dinner!!

Even though Lex didn't have any Pupusas she still enjoyed being part at the dinner table.

Yum Yum, time to Grub!

We also have the tradition of opening up one present Christmas Eve. Here are Jax and Mickey anxiously awaiting to open up their presents.

Can you tell Jacks is not happy that I made him take one more picture before I let him open his gift! Ha Ha Ha!

Here's our smiley Lexie:)

Here she is getting into mischief with the tree!

Finally!! And here are the yearly Christmas PJ's!

If you can't read what her's says it's:

"What Santa doesn't bring me Grandma Will!" Ain't that the truth!

And so the night ended with Pj's getting put on and watching some Christmas movies until they were so tired that they were asking to go to bed! Oh what a night!!