Blessed Christmas everyone

The 'photobooth' 

I think they find much joy in throwing water bombs at me hahah

Extremely young at heart. They were playing this for hours!

And so my uncle was probably getting tired and said 'This game ends when we all burst the balloons' But what he didn't know was that Joilyn was secretly filling up balloons at the side. Just secretly doing her part to keep the game running hahaha. Sneaky girls

And that's my brother being himself. Always attacking me

If ever one day anyone asks me for proper pictures with them, I think I would have none hahaha

But it's ok I always prefer the funny face. 

Uncle Jeff told them 'Hey let's gather for a photo together and when we're done, we can all throw it at Vivien!!!' I didn't think much of it cause I mean they're such lovely and considerate kids. But uhm, Joilyn's face just makes me realise how seriously she's taking this ahahaha. So full of concentration and she's totally ready to fire all that water bombs at me. Her dad had to hold her because she was obviously too excited and kept exclaiming 'DADDY THAT'S A GREAT IDEA. THAT'S A WONDERFUL IDEA'

'Hehehehehehehehehe'

I ran off

Haha but besides that, I found this the most hilarious photo of the day cause Joilyn's concentrated face is just so hilarious, Uncle Jeff is trying to be fierce, my brother trying to add some water effect while Uncle Chris and the rest just being cute

Forever young at heart 

Hahah just look at uncle Chris. Cross eyed at that pink balloon

When we all collide (in love) hahaha

I love you all so much much much 

Grandma with the youngest one, Megan! (And Joilyn loves being in all the photos hahah so cute)

My poor sister and mum fell sick thus not that many photos of them

Their photobooth prop hahah

Maisie dog I wished I was still living with you

I think Yael and I click pretty well. I wasnt expecting the photo to the be like this. All I did was carry him for a nice proper cuddly photo but he just twisted his body and said he wanted to be upside down

Like I had a choice hahahah but I love how you're like this. I think he'll probably giggle if I tell him

'Hey I love you yknow' haha but ok someday I will

She's so tiny next to Elias

Aunty Krys brought these lovely candles to end off our Christmas night

Merry Christmas from us allllllllll

I look forward to having Christmas with them every year, just being with the entire family. I'm thankful how everyone makes time to gather together and we just chill out at someone's house with loads of delicious food (usually pot luck). I love pot luck cause we get to try every family's speciality. Sabrina's pasta was amazing and Aunty's Kry's salad and homemade bread yummm. And every year we have some sort of fried chicken. Haha all the wives agree that fried chicken runs in the Tan family. 

The three Tan brothers love fried chicken hahaha fun fact.

A big big hugeee thank you to my Susu and Shenshen for hosting and planning this year's. I'm sure it wasn't easy cause this year we have baby Megan yayyy and we are pretty good at messing up (even unintentionally) cause of the number of kids we have running about. Haha apparently we had Secret Santa but a little different. All the adults had to buy for all the kids (including me hahaha I'm a kid). So because of this they had a separate group chat discussing about this and everything else. Our big family group chat is called 'Tan family' haha sounds typical but the conversations are super duper funny. Once in a while we have random voice recordings from Joia and Joilyn or funny pictures of Megan and all that stuff. 

I just love you all

It's heart warming to see how everything is taking place when the family is gathered. All the mothers help to set up the food, the dads entertaining all the kids. While the dads are playing their hearts out. I was amazed by how it all started with a balloon, which eventually led to them all being wet. Balloons to water ballons to water soccer and then the hose itself hahaha. They don't even bother if they had an extra set of clothes. I love how they come running to me with a huge hug when I enter the door. Kids and Maisie come running towards you and you really feel like you're home. Haha love flying at you from all directions. My baby cousins can play really well with each other. Even when accidents happen they always say this 'It's ok I'm alright' haha in their overly enthusiastic pitch. There's just so much emotions to describe every year but I think the pictures can somewhat tell why I love Christmas with my family so much. Can't wait for next year's!!

May the family hug tradition continue in our family <3