Friday, April 22, 2016

Christmas in California, Part 4--The gang's all here!

The rest of the family arrived in California during a period of a little more than 24 hours, from late on the 26th to late on the 27th.   They all flew into LAX, so Matt pretty much was running a taxi service between Redlands and LAX during that time. Ben was the first to arrive around midnight on the 26th.

Josie and Uncle Ben watching some football 
and waiting for the Wissinks to arrive


The Wissinks arrived in Redlands sometime late morning, after having a very early flight out of Chicago.  Jeremiah was pretty wiped out, after a short night and all the excitement of the flight and all.  So he was ready to sack out for a while.  The rest of us headed to Panera for lunch, while Adam stayed home with the sleeping boy. Sunday lunch at Panera, eating outdoors---who can top that?  I wish that I had gotten a picture of Hope, sitting next to Josie and helping herself to Josie's macaroni and cheese. :)  (another Grandma photo fail)  The rest of the day we just hung out at home.

 Cousins having fun with Play-Doh

Sunday night pizza

The Okuleys were the last to arrive, and they had some delays with their flight, so they got there very late on Sunday night, in fact it was probably actually Monday morning. 

On Monday morning Jeremiah and Evan discovered that they had matching shirts, and they even managed to find pants that were almost alike.

Cousin twins!

Monday evening was going to be our family Christmas Eve celebration.  And no matter when we celebrate Christmas Eve, our traditions remain the same.  So some of us were getting ready to head out to Sam's Club to do some shopping for our appetizer feast.  When it became known that there is an In 'n Out Burger right next to Sam's Club, it soon became a group outing. Actually it was kind of surprising that Ben waited this long for his first burger.  Evan and Cheryl missed out on this outing---Evan was napping, I think. 


Again, eating outside!

So that brings us to our Christmas Eve celebration---which will be the next post!



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