I'm back from my Christmas vacation in the Rio Grande Valley. It was a great break and I really enjoyed it this year except for feeling kind of icky the whole time I was down there. Don't know if I was fighting a bug but I felt pretty nauseous the whole time I was down there. Anyway got to see my nieces and nephews and brothers and sisters. This year we decided to have a traditional Mexican Christmas Eve dinner instead of the usual turkey/ham dinner. My mother made pozole & carne adobada, I made refried beans and my famous shrimp cocktail and Crissy made gorditas and picadillo. It was all good but I think everyone loved my mom's cooking the best. She hadn't made carne adobada in years and it was delicious to have it again. She also made me tamales. My boss has been asking for some for years now. She made real pork tamales. She didn't use the pork lard my grandma used because she said they would be too greasy. They are tamales aren't they supposed to be greasy. Anyway flew into Austin and drove to the Valley with my sister and my nephew Roman who is the smartest 2 1/2 year old. He is talking quite a lot and his favorite question is Why. Why? Why? Why? It used to be What happened but it's changed. Such a cutie. My niece Taylor made him pajamas for Xmas in her home ec class. They are amazing and by far one of the best presents of the year. Crissy did get some Tiffany earrings and Lucy did get another gun this year. The funny thing is that no one got me a present this year and I was ok with it. Normally my mom wraps up one of her home interior gifts at the last minute but not this year. I really don't need anything and I'm content watching the kids open their presents. Although Lucy did give me a tin of those white cookies with pecans. I think they are called wedding cookies and they are to die for. I'm almost done with the tin of them. I've given some away but I ate alot of them. Thank God I worked out a little during the break. We also had a piñata this year again. I filled it with candy and some Emergen-C for the adults. My brother added some cash. I'm just happy that this Christmas was stress free for me. We drove back to Austin on the 26st and we were supposed to go to the huge Outlet Mall but we bailed and ended up going to the smaller one on the 27th. I ended up getting home close to 1:00am on Saturday night b/c my flight was delayed. All in all it was a good vacation. I'm getting ready for the New Year break. Hector, my brother, and his family are supposedly coming in and I'm really excited. BTW, doesn't my hair look so shiny?
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