Okay so it isn't the first Christmas ever or even the first Christmas we knew each other, but it is our first Christmas together in person and our first Christmas as husband and wife.  So here is how we celebrated the best holiday of the year.

We decorated our room in the beginning of November with a tree and stockings.



Here is the tree with the gifts under it.  We bought lights and lots of cute decorations for the tree.  We actually bought most of our decorations including the tree in the Philippines when we went home in September.  We would light the tree every night when we got home.  On Christmas Eve we left the lights on all night.  We also bought a musical snowman that lights up, but he was way too loud for a small bedroom, and 2 reindeer decorative pillows.

We started our festivities with a nice Christmas Eve dinner at the Hard Rock Cafe.



We had potato skins, ribs, bbq chicken, and salad.  We were sooooooooo stuffed afterwards.  After that we walked along Orchard Road (the fancy/touristy shopping district) to the MRT (subway).  Orchard was all lit up with lights and a huge gold tree.



In the picture below you can see the Marriott's pagoda style hotel where I stayed 11 years ago on my first trip to Asia.



Next we went to the Christmas Eve mass at our church.  After church we headed home and had cake to celebrate Jesus' birthday.



We bought 3 slices if cake to represent the Holy Trinity.  We had mango cake, coffee cake, and lemon cake with fresh fruit.  All 3 were very good especially the mango cake.  (Good thing the mango cake was good because we bought a whole one for a friend of ours who invited us over for lunch, but due to scheduling conflicts we ended up having to keep the cake and eating it too.)  Finally, we concluded Christmas Eve by opening 1 gift each (which was torture for Ronna as her family tradition is to do all the gifts on Christmas Eve).  Before we went to bed we took our stockings down from our curtains in our room and put them on the couch for Santa.  Ronna wasn't exactly a believer in Santa and thought I was being silly.  In fact, she was afraid that Santa wouldn't come and I would be dissappointed.  After that it was time for bed so Santa could come while we slept.

About 4am Ronna woke me up as she went to the bathroom.  When she came back I could see the biggest smile ever on her face.  I asked her why she was smiling and she just ignored me and even rolled over.  So being tired I went back to sleep.  Then about a minute later she rolled over and asked me if I believed in Santa Claus.  I said of course I do.  She then told me that she thinks Santa came and brought us gifts for our stockings.  Since she didn't have her glasses on she wasn't 100% sure.  So I got up and checked and sure enough Santa had come.  We tried to go back to bed, but only managed to sleep until about 7am.  Then we got up and start our Christmas day.  Here is the stockings stuffed with gifts from Santa Claus.



Ronna was soooooooooo excited about Santa.  Her smile couldn't have possibly been any bigger.  Here she is opening the elf-handmade card from Santa.



Inside was the pictures of 2 movies that Santa delivered to the US knowing that we would be moving in the near future.



Here is Ronna opening another Santa gift.  You can see how happy she was.

 

I mean she was sooooooo excited.  I have never seen her so excited.  Here she is inspecting gifts like kids do.



She was even shaking them.



As she opened them she was smiling more and more.  She even started to hug the gifts from Santa.



Here she is smelling the new perfume Santa brought her.



Don't worry Santa didn't forget me.  I got a gift card to Amazon.  After opening the Santa gifts we made our special Christmas Breakfast.  Here is Ronna fighting with the bacon.



Yum!!!  What would Christmas breakfast be without deep-fried pig parts.  Our special breakfast included a monster 3-egg bacon, avocado, and cheese omelet that took up half the plate, french toast, more bacon, and fried tomatoes.



Breakfast was delicious and extremely filling. Oh and of course we had hot chocolate with marshmallows too.  After breakfast we open our presents to each other.  First we started with the cards.  I gave her a nice sentimental card that basically said how perfect she is, how lucky I am to have her, that when the angels sing it reminds me of her, etc and she gave me this.


What's the difference between snowmen and snowwomen?


Errr...dunno?  SNOWBALLS!!
 
As you can see the card she gave me was........PERFECT.  I loved it.  It is totally my type of card.  Anyways, here is Ronna with all of her presents waiting to open them.



Can't you see the excitement in her face?  Here I am with all of my presents (or should I say cards).  Since we are moving hopefully soon I just asked Ronna to buy my gifts from Amazon and have them shipped to the US.  That way we have less to take with us when we move.  So each envelope has a picture of the item she bought me from Amazon.  I got 2 PS3 games and 8 movies.  Anyways, here I am with all my gifts.



After opening all the gifts Ronna decided to gather all of her gifts and hug them because she was so happy.



She later told me that this was the best Christmas ever and that she now believes in Santa Claus.  I have to admit it was also my best Christmas ever.  I can't wait to spend many (x100) more with her in the future.  Thank you for a wonderful Christmas my love and thank you God for giving her to me.  She is the best gift anyone could ever ask for.