We had a great Christmas. As you know we have 3 sons, two living close by and the oldest one with the four girls, living in Texas. Anyway, as I stated earlier we had plans for Christmas dinner for 11 people but at the last minute that number jumped to 17. You see our oldest and his wife and the girls they suddenly showed up at our front door about an hour before dinner was going on the table. He had been given the whole week off and they decided, without telling us, that they were going to drive to SoCal (his wife's mother and sister lives in Palm Springs) and surprise us. He called his brothers and they knew they were coming and was responsible for making sure that we all would be here when they arrived and so it was a total surprise when the doorbell rang and we were wondered who could possibly be at our door on Christmas day.
Anyway, it was a great day as this was the first time that all of our family had been together for Christmas in over 10 years.
So today the plan is to go up to LA to the Science Center to see the Space Shuttle and to have another family get together to remember, then it's back to OC for dinner to celebrate a couple of near miss Christmas-birthdays before the oldest and his family starts back to Texas on Friday as he has to be in the office on Monday morning.
This will be a Christmas to remember all right. The only negative in the whole thing was that the girls felt sort of left out with respect to our gifts to them since we had mailed everything to Texas by priority mail guaranteed to be delivered on Saturday the 21st (and the USPS tracker says that it was) but they were already on the road so I guess their neighbor is taking care of their mail. And of course, since they showed-up on Christmas day my wife didn't have an opportunity suddenly rush out and buy something for them but at least our other two sons, since they knew about this, had gotten the girls some iTunes cards so they each had a couple of things to open.
OCU
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