January 7th, 2012 Sicilian Christmas!!

Hello blogging friends, it is I, Taryn sharing my Sicilian Christmas. It worked out perfect for us to have our Christmas after Christmas on my real Christmas date, Jan. 7th. See when the world ran on the old calendar system our Christmas was December 25th like normal, but the new calendar system that the world all switched to made that date Jan. 7th, so we kept the original time of Christmas. Confusing you yet?? LOL!! So many countries overseas have Jan 7th be the day of Christmas. Christmas starts our year out instead of ending it like the US. Kewl hu??

We got to go over to see our cousins finally. We love visiting them and having fun doing crazy things. Our last post was going over and being there, this post is on our Christmas gifts. LOL!! 

If you want to see the whole album, which is better, it is here: Christmas Gifts!! Otherwise I will share a little bit of the fun. 

Now, see, when Emma and I get together, we get a little insane. We love to torment our sisters a little anyway, and we just feed off each other. We never do anything bad or hurtful, just ornery. That is just how we are. As you see, we have flashlights in our hands, ready for everyone else to fall asleep so that we can wake them back up and start the chattering back over again. LOL!!

You could not see really good, these kewl flashlights shine in the color that they are, that was awesome .. the bummer thing about staying up until 2 am to bug sisters is we were really tired the next day. LOL!! 

Since they did not get up or really acknowledge us at 2 am we tried harder at 6 am to get them all up and ended up scaring some of them, it was awesome. This time though everyone got up to open gifts, and was excited by the fun of the day. It was our Christmas and we were all ready for some fun and gifts, it had seemed like we had waited forever for Christmas to get here. 

Marsali was totally shocked, she got her 25th Anniversary Josefina she figured she would never get. Mama usually only buys us dolls from Amazon because they are so much cheaper and Marsali was sure Mama would not get her the doll she wanted. She is so spoilt she should have known since she really wanted it she would get it. LOL!! But it was a really good surprise, I was happy she got her doll. 

Our cousin Emma, my partner in crime got a bag of coal in the top of her stocking. It was so funny because she did not even look at what else was in her stocking she just pulled out her coal and said. "I thought that was just a myth, maybe I should be good from now on. Naaaaa" and laughed, it was one of those too perfect moments that can only be shared with another ornery person. LOL!! 

Novya on the other hand just pulled her blanket up over her head and thought we were all insane for getting up at 6 am in the morning even for Christmas gifts. LOL!!

Kimmy was as shocked as Marsali and they thought that it was sooooo funny, they both ended up with the Josefina girls. Our Mamas were very sneaky this year. 

We all had a lot of fun sharing our gifts and playing the rest of the day. It was fun to spend time with our cousins. 

Happy 2012 Everyone,

Taryn