1 00:00:00,00 --> 00:00:03,900 Merry, Merry, Merry, Merry, Merry Christmas to everyone! 2 00:00:30,500 --> 00:00:40,700 Good morning, guys! Our Christmas vlog starts here. Today is December 24th, 3:20 am here in Chicago. 3 00:00:40,800 --> 00:00:51,700 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 4 00:00:51,800 --> 00:01:01,000 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. 5 00:01:01,100 --> 00:01:09,500 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. 6 00:01:09,600 --> 00:01:18,600 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. 7 00:01:18,700 --> 00:01:27,300 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! 8 00:01:34,900 --> 00:01:38,000 Hello, everyone! Good morning! 9 00:01:38,800 --> 00:01:47,500 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. 10 00:01:47,600 --> 00:01:56,800 The service finished around 5:30-ish before it turned 6. After that, my family went to sleep since they haven't slept yet. 11 00:01:56,900 --> 00:02:08,600 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. 12 00:02:08,700 --> 00:02:18,500 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. 13 00:02:26,600 --> 00:02:29,000 My Christmas is complete. 14 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:31,200 One minute, bebe. 15 00:02:31,700 --> 00:02:40,900 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. 16 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:49,200 So there, he's working on it. There. It's 10! Merry Christmas, bebe! 17 00:02:49,700 --> 00:02:54,700 Okay, I gotta go since I have a meeting. Call you later. Bye. 18 00:02:54,900 --> 00:03:02,000 Hello guys! We're now on the road. We have our little sister, Ishi, here. She's our driver today. 19 00:03:02,400 --> 00:03:12,400 So, we're gonna be doing a last minute shopping for Christmas gifts. So there. 20 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:20,300 Hello guys. We're at Old Orchard and it's freaking cold. 21 00:03:21,800 --> 00:03:28,500 So freaking cold. And there's a line so, goodluck to us. 22 00:03:47,700 --> 00:03:52,200 Hello everyone! It's almost 12 midnight. How about a hi, Ishi? 23 00:03:52,300 --> 00:03:55,900 - Hello po. - Hello, there. - Don't mind me eating. *laughs* 24 00:03:56,100 --> 00:04:06,000 So it's not our conventional noche buena because we have a virtual Christmas party with our family in the Philippines, with the Uyaos. 25 00:04:06,100 --> 00:04:11,500 So yeah, we started 3 hours ago, I think. And we're still ongoing. So yeah. 26 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:16,400 So it's like a ritual that we always have to perform. 27 00:04:16,500 --> 00:04:21,000 So yeah, so embarrassing. *laughs* 28 00:04:21,100 --> 00:04:34,000 .. used to laugh and call him names. They never let poor Rudolph join in any reindeer games. 29 00:04:34,500 --> 00:04:40,400 Then one foggy, Christmas eve, Santa came to say... 30 00:04:40,800 --> 00:04:52,600 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 31 00:04:52,700 --> 00:05:01,000 almost 4 am here in Chicago. It was really fun. It took us long, like 6 hours or more. 32 00:05:01,100 --> 00:05:11,700 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. 33 00:05:11,800 --> 00:05:18,600 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. 34 00:05:18,700 --> 00:05:25,100 So yeah, it was really nice to spend it with them again. Although, it was the morning of the 25th for them 35 00:05:25,200 --> 00:05:33,700 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. 36 00:05:33,800 --> 00:05:37,000 I'm going to sleep. I'll update you guys tomorrow. 37 00:05:48,800 --> 00:05:54,500 Hello, everyone! It's the 25th. Merry Christmas! 38 00:05:58,100 --> 00:06:07,600 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. 39 00:06:07,700 --> 00:06:17,300 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. 40 00:06:17,400 --> 00:06:26,600 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. 41 00:06:26,700 --> 00:06:32,500 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. 42 00:06:32,600 --> 00:06:40,000 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 43 00:06:40,100 --> 00:06:44,500 Hello, guys. So now we're just wrapping a... 44 00:06:44,600 --> 00:06:45,200 ..okay.. 45 00:06:45,300 --> 00:06:48,400 That's my sister. *laughs* They're playing, it's okay. 46 00:06:48,500 --> 00:06:55,000 So, we're wrapping this gift. It's so cute because it's personalized. It's like a book. 47 00:06:55,100 --> 00:06:57,000 So let's wrap them. 48 00:06:57,800 --> 00:07:00,700 These are the last gifts that we're going to be wrapping. 49 00:07:01,800 --> 00:07:05,600 So nice. The paper's so cute. 50 00:07:06,300 --> 00:07:09,200 Gift paper. What's this called.. 51 00:07:31,700 --> 00:07:42,400 Hello, we're done taking pictures at our dining table setup. Merry Christmas, yes! So, here it is guys. 52 00:07:42,500 --> 00:07:47,700 We'll be showing you some videos.. yes we'll take a picture with mommy.. 53 00:07:47,800 --> 00:07:52,000 ..videos as to how we did it, but definitely there might be a separate blog for that. 54 00:08:05,500 --> 00:08:14,100 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. 55 00:08:14,200 --> 00:08:23,500 And then we're gonna open our gifts. So let me just show you the details of our decors for today. 56 00:08:24,400 --> 00:08:32,900 So, here it is guys. We have this beautiful white, yellow-white, circular place mats. 57 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:51,200 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. 58 00:08:51,300 --> 00:08:59,000 And these are our silverware. It's gold, but these are actually plastic so it's disposable. 59 00:08:59,600 --> 00:09:08,800 And we have this menu for tonight. Starters, soup, salad, entree, and the dessert. There, we have so much desserts. 60 00:09:10,800 --> 00:09:15,800 So yeah. We're just gonna grab our food. It's actually in the kitchen. Then we're gonna eat. 61 00:09:26,500 --> 00:09:31,000 Okay, we're drinking wine because we're only allowed to do so sometimes. *laughs* 62 00:09:31,100 --> 00:09:44,700 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. 63 00:09:44,800 --> 00:09:48,500 - We don't like anything that is bitter and all. - Wait, they're not equal. 64 00:09:48,600 --> 00:09:50,700 So.. it wasn't equal she said.. 65 00:09:53,300 --> 00:10:01,700 Hello guys. Time check, it's 1:25 am, December 26th. And we are just about to open our gifts. 66 00:10:03,800 --> 00:10:06,400 Hi mother, my very beautiful mother. 67 00:10:06,500 --> 00:10:12,500 *laughs* There. It's so messy. That's our little sister. 68 00:10:12,600 --> 00:10:21,000 And usually we open gifts one at a time, so we get to see their.. say hello, ate 69 00:10:21,100 --> 00:10:30,100 *laughs* So we get to see the reaction, the unboxing of the gift and such. So exciting! 70 00:10:30,200 --> 00:10:39,800 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. 71 00:10:39,900 --> 00:10:43,400 - It's a box. -A box? - I don't know what it is exactly though. *laughs* 72 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:45,700 So many gifts. 73 00:10:46,900 --> 00:10:54,300 - Ate's favorite gift. - I'm so happy. - It's her most wanted in her wishlist. 74 00:10:54,400 --> 00:11:00,900 - Yay, let's open it. - Yes. This girl is a lifter. So yeah. 75 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:04,900 - Yay, it's a pull-up bar! - Pull-up bar! 76 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:13,300 - Yay! - ikonfitness. We got it from Amazon. She's ready to have a home gym. 77 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:20,600 Okay guys. Let's now open our gifts. Ate's done so it's now my turn. 78 00:11:20,700 --> 00:11:29,700 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. 79 00:11:29,800 --> 00:11:39,100 Because there's a pandemic and everything. But...yeah. We learned it from our mom, we got it from our mom. 80 00:11:39,200 --> 00:11:48,900 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. 81 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:59,000 So my secret santa is.. Ishi. *laughs* The little sister. I guessed it. I guessed it after... 82 00:11:59,800 --> 00:12:04,800 - Did you buy the entire thing? - What entire thing? 83 00:12:04,900 --> 00:12:10,000 - Oh no. I didn't. No, no, no, I didn't buy the entire thing. 84 00:12:10,100 --> 00:12:15,500 *laughs* - The set? - I did not. - Just open it. 85 00:12:15,600 --> 00:12:23,500 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. 86 00:12:24,800 --> 00:12:30,900 So the only thing I put is something I've been eyeing for a while for.. TMI guys, I'm sorry. 87 00:12:35,800 --> 00:12:42,400 - You told her, didn't you? - No, Ma. What's great is before you even told me, she bought it already. 88 00:12:42,700 --> 00:12:49,500 Hello guys. Time check, it's 4:50 am. 89 00:12:50,000 --> 00:13:03,300 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. 90 00:13:03,400 --> 00:13:09,600 So we can see their reaction and everything. So that's just the family tradition that we're doing. 91 00:13:09,700 --> 00:13:19,300 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. 92 00:13:19,400 --> 00:13:23,500 So, it's 7 am here and 9 pm in the Philippines, with my college bestfriends. 93 00:13:23,600 --> 00:13:32,600 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. 94 00:13:32,700 --> 00:13:43,200 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 95 00:13:43,300 --> 00:13:48,600 I would say. So yes, I'll talk to you guys in 2 hours. 96 00:13:49,000 --> 00:14:00,600 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. 97 00:14:00,700 --> 00:14:11,500 So we are now logging in. Okay, so we're logging into Google Meet. There, we have a lot of gmail accounts. 98 00:14:14,200 --> 00:14:20,800 Third game, guys! Jake's hosting our game. The legit game-master. 99 00:14:23,800 --> 00:14:33,100 So his game is "Guess Who Said This" according to our tweets. So, this is gonna be soo funny. 100 00:14:33,900 --> 00:14:37,000 Guys, we're doing our raffle now. 101 00:14:37,100 --> 00:14:41,100 There we go. Last man standing, let's go. 102 00:14:43,800 --> 00:14:45,600 *laughs* 103 00:14:48,800 --> 00:14:56,600 Okay, guys so Jaira won 500 pesos. But, she put it in the raffle instead. 104 00:14:58,500 --> 00:15:06,900 - So she split it, 250 and 250. - The first one who gets the 250 is.... *laughs* - First and last. 105 00:15:08,500 --> 00:15:15,300 - Jake! Nice, Jake! *laughs* - I finally won! *laughs* - Jake won still. *laughs* 106 00:15:17,400 --> 00:15:23,900 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. 107 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:31,000 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 108 00:15:31,100 --> 00:15:37,300 and also, please don't forget to subscribe to our channel. This is Alyssa and we will see you in the next one. 109 00:15:37,800 --> 00:15:41,800 Merry, Merry, Merry, Merry, Merry Christmas to everyone!!