For Christmas this past year we decided to make a surprise stop home before continuing our travels. After a couple big bogus stories about our plans for christmas, purchasing tickets to LAX and saying goodbye to all the meat and potatoes in Brazil, we hopped on a plane, connected through Panama, and landed safely in California. It was an adventure surprising our parents one at a time. We loved being home for the holiday and thought it was a perfect first Christmas together as newly weds. Lots of family time and lots of love.
This was the first time that all of Ryan's family had been together for christmas in a decade. Nancy also had out of town relatives that made it into CA for christmas at her grandma's. So we were really happy we made the effort to come home as well. It was definitely a christmas we couldn't have missed.
There were some fun activities like playing football at the park, riding dirt bikes, eating pho, getting Korean bbq, singing Christmas carols, frosting christmas cookies, drinking hot chocolate and vanilla steamers (Nancy's favorite) and sharing some of our travel stories. Also, it was fun to see all the little nephews and nieces getting so big.
We were able to capture some of our families reactions on film when we surprised them. Check out this little video of the surprises:
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3 comments:
what about grandmas house? :P
Well Amanda we had planned to surprise Grandma but the news we were in town leaked out and got to her before we could make it over. So no surprise at the door but we still had fun at the party!
How fun that you got that all on video! (I totally didn't know you were filming). I'm so glad you guys came! Hope you're having fun traveling again.
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