Christmas this year for the Bundy family was a circus of an event. So much to share, but first, an overview of the "vacation" so you can have a grasp of what really happened.
1. School gets out for Byron on Friday, December 21. First day of vacation.
2. The California Family leaves for Christmas in Texas at 7 p.m. on Friday night.
3. The California Family arrives in Keller on Sunday afternoon. This includes my parents, my sister and her husband and their 4 boys. Where will they stay you ask? In the motor home that is parked outside my house. Reputation of the neighborhood drops instantly.
4. Christmas Eve gifts take place at our house after breakfast and the rest of day is spent playing. Big gifts this year from California were Big Wheels for the Blake and Anna.
5. Christmas Eve evening. All 12 of us carpool in the motor home and my truck to Temple so we can have the first and possibly last Bundy - Smetana Christmas Bonanza.
6. Santa comes for Blake and Anna and my sister's 4 boys at Ron and Diana's house. Then we prepare for the old people to come. Ron's mom Anna who is 91, Diana's mom Jo Ann who is 83 and Diana's Aunt Pauline who is 91. Including Jon we now have 18 for Christmas lunch and gifts to follow. No major fights took place.
7. California and Keller people drive back to Keller the night of the 25th.
8. Gifts and play time on Wednesday morning, only to be followed by Ice Skating at the Galleria that evening with cousins of mine from Denton.
9. Head to Downtown Ft. Worth on Thursday morning. Shop the Stockyard area before the cattle drive at 11:30 a.m. Then off for a late, big breakfast at The
'Ol South Pancake House. Bar-B-Que for dinner at The Feed Store in Southlake. This was a glorious day of eating!!!
10. Friday after breakfast my sister and her family head to McKinney and then to Houston to visit some of Kenny's family. Mom and dad stay with us in Keller for the weekend. Cousin Elliot stays with Blake for the weekend also. My dad bought them a boomerang at Cabelas. A great gift to give to a 4 and 5 year old. We were actually able to make it return without hurting anyone. Friday night Shar and I had a date!!!!! Dinner at a Fondue place, and I loved it, and then a movie, The Kite Runner which Shar wanted to see because Oprah had told her to read the book.
11. Sunday after church we all head to Temple to spend the night.
12. Shar, Elliot, Blake, mom and Dad and I all drive to San Antonio on Monday morning to meet up with the motor home so everyone can get back to California. Shar and I and the kids spend a few extra days in Temple with Ron and Diana and then back to Keller on Wednesday.
All in all it was a really great Christmas. To have in-laws as good as I do that would host my entire family for Christmas is really special and for my parents and sister and family to spend their entire holiday season on the road so that we could be together is also very amazing and special. I am so very grateful for all of my family. This was a really wonderful Christmas.
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Very eventful Christmas...I was a little tired after simply reading it. I hope everything else is going well!! I wanted to let you know that I have stared my own blog http://abecker08.blogspot.com/ :)
It was a very wonderful Christmas for us as well. Thanks for hosting "cousing Eddie" as I dumped in your front lawn (did it late at night so as to not bring the Ft Worth Police to your door, again). Really liking the boots, hope you get your act together and find some you like. And the experience of "The Road" was icing on the cake. What a wonderful time being together and cousins bonding again. Better that they bonded (or thrashed) there in TX. See I do visit The Sideline once in a while.
Kenny
Thanks for logging the events of our trip....it's all kinda a blur to me. Ha! I wish you could have seen your brother in law dump the tanks in our driveway at midnight wearing the super halogen head light and all. Talk about neighborhood reputation.
It was a fun and very memorable trip. Thanks for having us and we'll be back for the month of February, so warn the neighbors.
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