What a week...

Im not sure where to even begin.  Last week was absolutely bananas.  Ill try to recap.  It started off with my family picking me up at the airport.  We then moved a couple terminals over and picked up my aunt, uncle, and one of my cousins. From the airport we proceeded to my other aunts house, met my other cousins, and obviously started to drink. Kids were running around like chickens with their heads cut off it was such great family time. From the moment I landed food was everywhere and we consumed it all.  We tried different combinations, things we've never tried, I mean it felt like we were just eating food just because it was there... Im talking indulgent amounts.  I'm actually surprised none of the little kids got eaten cause our whole family was devouring everything. :)

The Aussie folks went shopping.  ALL THE TIME! they went to our local mall, the local outlet stores, the far away outlet stores (in Allen, TX) then back to the local mall, and even back to the Allen Outlets on Black Friday.  How do you do that much shopping?? Baffles my mind.  But it seemed to put a smile on my aunts face which is always good to see.  I really dont blame them however the prices they see here are so cheap compared to overseas in Sidney.  So to them it was like black Friday all week long. I heard the phrase "were going to the mall" so many times over the break that when I came back to D.C. I asked my roomate if he wanted to go to the mall instead of the grocery store...

My cousin Anna and I worked on our presentation for our big family reunion planned for 2011 in Disney World!  The presentation went great.  I think it actually swayed some family members into going who were a little on the fence.  I think everyone is happy that we all came together as a family and decided to go through with this. It has been a long time since we have all been together and although its 2 years away it will be worth the wait!   Everyone is excited.  With the help of my mom, we got a breakdown of all expenses that are to be incurred over this trip including travel, van rides down there, hotel, lodging, we thought of everything.  We shoved this info into excel, cleaned it up, formatted some cells and had a breakdown of what each family member has to pay.  We also added a little story on power-point filled with pictures and what we've been through, just to give it a more nostalgic feel. All in all it went very well!

Of course we did the whole thanksgiving day deal at our house.  We all ate at 2:00, afterwords some watched football, some family members went to the park with the little kids, and some found places in the house to nap for a bit.  Then we ate some more. :)

We topped it off with the rodeo on Friday and my little cousin Rafael's 13th Birthday on Saturday. 

I wish the week didnt end, but alas im sitting here at my computer bloggin about the greatest week of my life  with nothing to look forward too:(.............

And then I realize, 4 weeks till VEGAS!!!