Christmas Eve 2005 was a blast! Josie prepared her usual assortment of great eats including a delicious prime rib roast. After scarfing down and enjoying some quality time together, we decided to try out a little karaoke on for size. Needless to say, karaoke was met with great enthusiam by the family, especially by the little ones.

I kicked things off with the Beatles' 'Ticket to Ride' while Kristin followed it up with a soulful performance of Depeche Mode's 'Precious'. Clareese and Michelle entertained the crowd with their beautiful reditions of 'Twinkle, Twinkle Lil' Star' and the 'ABC Song'. Junior rocked the house with the Clash's 'Rock the Casbah' and Maria and Gloria performed a lively duet of No Doubt's 'Spiderwebs'. Josie performed a touching rendition of the Beatles' 'Michelle' for our darling baby girl. But the definite highlight and surprise of the evening was Yadira's very sultry and seductive performance of 'Copacabana' by, the one and only, Barry Manilow. Who knew!? ;-)

Afterwards, we sat down and enjoyed a spirited round of Christmas carols around the piano. And finally, to top off a great evening, we opened gifts and did one final karaoke with everyone rocking out to Black Sabbath's 'Iron Man' as performed by Junior. Yeah, I know, how appropriate. heh.

This was definitely one of our best Christmas parties to date!