Merry, Merry, Merry, Merry, Merry Christmas to everyone!

Good morning, guys! Our Christmas vlog starts here. Today is December 24th, 3:20 am here in Chicago.

So, the main reason why I am awake.. Usually I'm not awake around this time, but because our home church in the Phillipines has a December 24th service

and ever since the world began, wow *laughs* , we would always attend that. And then when we moved to the US, we weren't able to attend, of course.

And then right now, they have the livecast so we said we wouldn't miss it for the world. So we're gonna watch it and celebrate with them in the Philippines.

So yeah, that's that. I slept at 11 last night because I have work at 8 am later. So at least I had a 4-hour nap.

And then we're gonna rest again later, probably. I'll keep you guys with me and we have a very busy and exciting day ahead. So, let's go!

Hello, everyone! Good morning!

So, I just woke up. It's a little bit before 8 and I have work today. Just a half-day because it's a holiday. Today is December 24.

The service finished around 5:30-ish before it turned 6. After that, my family went to sleep since they haven't slept yet.

But since I took a nap already, I said that I would just sleep at the couch because if I slept at the bed again, I might not get up especially since I napped for 2 hours. So yeah.

Our next video will be in 2 hours because I'm gonna be calling Jake since it's going to be midnight there by then. So of course, we'll celebrate it together. So yeah.

My Christmas is complete.

One minute, bebe.

And he is so sweet because we have a Christmas party tomorrow for my family in the Philippines and he's going to host a game.

So there, he's working on it. There. It's 10! Merry Christmas, bebe!

Okay, I gotta go since I have a meeting. Call you later. Bye.

Hello guys! We're now on the road. We have our little sister, Ishi, here. She's our driver today.

So, we're gonna be doing a last minute shopping for Christmas gifts. So there.

Hello guys. We're at Old Orchard and it's freaking cold.

So freaking cold. And there's a line so, goodluck to us.

Hello everyone! It's almost 12 midnight. How about a hi, Ishi?

- Hello po. - Hello, there. - Don't mind me eating. *laughs*

So it's not our conventional noche buena because we have a virtual Christmas party with our family in the Philippines, with the Uyaos.

So yeah, we started 3 hours ago, I think. And we're still ongoing. So yeah.

So it's like a ritual that we always have to perform.

So yeah, so embarrassing. *laughs*

.. used to laugh and call him names. They never let poor Rudolph join in any reindeer games.

Then one foggy, Christmas eve, Santa came to say...

Hello guys. I wasn't able to vlog earlier since it was so crazy and the virtual Christmas party with the Uyaos just ended. It's already

almost 4 am here in Chicago. It was really fun. It took us long, like 6 hours or more.

Yeah. It was the perfect time to catch up, play games, all of us cousins had presentations. Just traditions that we've done ever since.

Even before, when we were still in the Philippines, they were really the ones we were with every 24th. So every noche buena, we were with them.

So yeah, it was really nice to spend it with them again. Although, it was the morning of the 25th for them

but for us, it was noche buena. So we weren't able to eat noche buena. But we'll definitely do it tomorrow. We usually open gifts too at 12 midnight.

I'm going to sleep. I'll update you guys tomorrow.

Hello, everyone! It's the 25th. Merry Christmas!

So, we woke up at 12 today. Or 12:30, I think, in the afternoon. We ate brunch and we put on some make-up.

Thankfully, my hair's still curled so didn't have to curl it again. I put on some makeup and today, we will be redoing our noche buena.

First, we weren't able to eat noche buena yesterday so we will be having a formal dinner tonight. So we'll arrange the table, we'll show you guys that too.

When we did that at Thanksgiving, we received requests about it but I wasn't able to take a video. So we will do that today.

We'll have our dinner. We'll be opening a lot of gifts and our family pictures as well. So we'll take you guys with us

Hello, guys. So now we're just wrapping a...

..okay..

That's my sister. *laughs* They're playing, it's okay.

So, we're wrapping this gift. It's so cute because it's personalized. It's like a book.

So let's wrap them.

These are the last gifts that we're going to be wrapping.

So nice. The paper's so cute.

Gift paper. What's this called..

Hello, we're done taking pictures at our dining table setup. Merry Christmas, yes! So, here it is guys.

We'll be showing you some videos.. yes we'll take a picture with mommy..

..videos as to how we did it, but definitely there might be a separate blog for that.

I wasn't able to make a vlog earlier since we were so busy working on it. But now we're going to eat and take more pictures later.

And then we're gonna open our gifts. So let me just show you the details of our decors for today.

So, here it is guys. We have this beautiful white, yellow-white, circular place mats.

There we go. We have these red charger plates. Gold and white main plates. And we have this salad plate. And one for appetizer plate. And we have this soup bowl.

And these are our silverware. It's gold, but these are actually plastic so it's disposable.

And we have this menu for tonight. Starters, soup, salad, entree, and the dessert. There, we have so much desserts.

So yeah. We're just gonna grab our food. It's actually in the kitchen. Then we're gonna eat.

Okay, we're drinking wine because we're only allowed to do so sometimes. *laughs*

So we're drinking Stella Rosa. This is our preferred wine because it's not super bitter. Since we're not drinkers, no one drinks in the family. There.

- We don't like anything that is bitter and all. - Wait, they're not equal.

So.. it wasn't equal she said..

Hello guys. Time check, it's 1:25 am, December 26th. And we are just about to open our gifts.

Hi mother, my very beautiful mother.

*laughs* There. It's so messy. That's our little sister.

And usually we open gifts one at a time, so we get to see their.. say hello, ate

*laughs* So we get to see the reaction, the unboxing of the gift and such. So exciting!

So these are my gifts. Thank you so much family! They gave me so many even though we told each other that we're not going to do a lot of gifts this year.

- It's a box. -A box? - I don't know what it is exactly though. *laughs*

So many gifts.

- Ate's favorite gift. - I'm so happy. - It's her most wanted in her wishlist.

- Yay, let's open it. - Yes. This girl is a lifter. So yeah.

- Yay, it's a pull-up bar! - Pull-up bar!

- Yay! - ikonfitness. We got it from Amazon. She's ready to have a home gym.

Okay guys. Let's now open our gifts. Ate's done so it's now my turn.

What are we opening first? Let's open the Secret Santa one first. So in our family, we did Secret Santa. There's five of us and we did it because we said that we didn't want to buy expensive gifts.

Because there's a pandemic and everything. But...yeah. We learned it from our mom, we got it from our mom.

She loves giving gifts as much as she can. And help in any way that she can too. So yeah, we still have a lot of gifts. Let's open our secret santa.

So my secret santa is.. Ishi. *laughs* The little sister. I guessed it. I guessed it after...

- Did you buy the entire thing? - What entire thing?

- Oh no. I didn't. No, no, no, I didn't buy the entire thing.

*laughs* - The set? - I did not. - Just open it.

Oh my God, okay. So we have a wishlist and I don't know why but I really couldn't think of anything. I didn't want anything.

So the only thing I put is something I've been eyeing for a while for.. TMI guys, I'm sorry.

- You told her, didn't you? - No, Ma. What's great is before you even told me, she bought it already.

Hello guys. Time check, it's 4:50 am.

So, we just finished opening our gifts and it took forever. It took a while because we always try to make sure that we're focusing on the person opening their gifts. So it's just one person at a time.

So we can see their reaction and everything. So that's just the family tradition that we're doing.

So, I'm just gonna be taking a nap. I still have makeup on and everything because I have a virtual Christmas party today, in 2 hours actually.

So, it's 7 am here and 9 pm in the Philippines, with my college bestfriends.

I'm just gonna take a nap. I'll bring you guys with me and after that party, I'll probably end the vlog there because I'm going to sleep all day.

So far, since this vlog started, this is the second time I'm going to have only 2 hours of sleep. So that's definitely new and something memorable

I would say. So yes, I'll talk to you guys in 2 hours.

Hello guys, good morning! 2 hours later. Time check, 7:30. I woke up a bit late, but I still woke up. I'm alive.

So we are now logging in. Okay, so we're logging into Google Meet. There, we have a lot of gmail accounts.

Third game, guys! Jake's hosting our game. The legit game-master.

So his game is "Guess Who Said This" according to our tweets. So, this is gonna be soo funny.

Guys, we're doing our raffle now.

There we go. Last man standing, let's go.

*laughs*

Okay, guys so Jaira won 500 pesos. But, she put it in the raffle instead.

- So she split it, 250 and 250. - The first one who gets the 250 is.... *laughs* - First and last.

- Jake! Nice, Jake! *laughs* - I finally won! *laughs* - Jake won still. *laughs*

That is it, guys! Thank you so much for being with us in celebrating this year's Christmas. For now, I'm gonna take a rest.

It was such a very long, three days. Thank you for being with me. If you did like this video, please don't forget to give us a big thumbs up

and also, please don't forget to subscribe to our channel. This is Alyssa and we will see you in the next one.

Merry, Merry, Merry, Merry, Merry Christmas to everyone!!