torand.org » holiday http://torand.org the power of two became one Sat, 14 Apr 2012 13:15:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 Christmas Eve http://torand.org/2006/12/25/christmas-eve/ http://torand.org/2006/12/25/christmas-eve/#comments Mon, 25 Dec 2006 16:25:47 +0000 Mitzie http://torand.org/2006/12/25/christmas-eve/ We spent the day playing dominoes and making cutout cookies, buckeyes, and chocolate covered pretzels. Instead of making breakfast this morning, I baked the cookies that we were going to decorate later that day. Mitzie and Shirley decorated the cookies throughout the day and made the other Christmas goodies. The girls and their cousin Krystle did some last minute Christmas shopping. I spent the day playing dominoes with my in-laws.

We spent the night eating, playing more dominoes, and basically enjoying everyone’s company. We had a wonderful dinner of ham and arroz con gandules, (rice with chick peas). One of the traditions in the Torres family is to open one present on Christmas Eve, then open the rest on Christmas day. So when we stopped playing dominoes around 11-midnight, we gathered in the living room expecting to open just one present. When we ended around 1:30 am. All the presents were opened in a frenzy, mounds of wrapping paper and boxes strewn around the room.

]]> http://torand.org/2006/12/25/christmas-eve/feed/ 0 We have arrived…. http://torand.org/2006/12/23/we-have-arrived/ http://torand.org/2006/12/23/we-have-arrived/#comments Sat, 23 Dec 2006 20:28:25 +0000 Scott http://torand.org/2006/12/29/we-have-arrived/ The trip out here was uneventful. We left around 4 am, got in Indy around 3 pm. Mitzie was happy to see her sisters, and it was good to see Jose and Elsie. We found out when we got to Shirley’s house that Elsie, the oldest sister, was admitted to the hospital for appendicitis. It looks like she will be in the hospital through Christmas.

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