9th day of Christmas

Today is the 9th day of Christmas and since my sister is leaving before the celebration we celebrated Día de Reyes...King's Day or Epiphany today.

We had an unusual meal for this holiday, as Bret wanted to do some BBQ, so we had hamburgers. For dessert we had our traditional Rosca de Reyes

This was this year's rosca

This year we got it at the same store in Auburn and they only put 2 of the little toys that represents baby Jesus. As tradition we each had to cut our own piece and Bret was the first lucky or unlucky one depends on how you see it and BIL was the second and last one :0)

Originally this meant that on Día de la Candelaria, February 2nd the godparents would get clothes for the nativity's baby Jesus, then we'll all go to the special mass where we get our baby Jesus blessed afterwards we went to a tamale party hosted by the godparents. In the States they don't do any of this so we just have the rosca and whomever gets the little baby Jesus hosts a dinner, sometimes we have tamales other times whatever we feel like it :0) since my sister and Bret work we not always do it on February 2nd either :0)

My other sister arrived early and since we were cooking some Mexican food for tomorrow we ended up making some tamales norteños. It was a lot of work but not hard to make after all...well, we'll know when we try to make them again LOL

I made this card a while back, the stamp is Northwoods I believe