Friday, December 26, 2008

The Castanedas Do Dallas

Last Monday night (the 15th) Jose and I decided we wanted to go to Dallas to visit his family and our friends. We booked our flight at about 11pm and flew out at 6am the next morning. We didn't tell his family we were coming and surprised them that morning. We had such a great time and we were happy to spend some time with them. Here is the highlight reel.....



Christmas Shopping and seeing friends at the Neiman Marcus Flagship Downtown. This holiday window was made entirely of cards.

Three of my favorite Mexi-mans...Jose, Ron, & Gilbert out to dinner.

Seeing Katie and Issac and meeting sweet baby Laura (who was sleeping during this picture).

We had an early Christmas with the family and had fun opening presents with the kids.

We also got to spend some time with Jose's sister Sonia & her husband Carlo who are moving to Italy in January. We love you guys!



Our Christms jammies were quite a hit! Who knew that both of us could still fit in the kids section!?!?! You wouldn't belive how comfy these things are!

We also took a tour of SouthFork ranch up in Parker. That's where they filmed the TV show Dallas.


Don't we look like the Ewings?


Making Bunelos with my mother-in-law Martha. They are a traditional Mexican dessert to eat on New Year's Eve. We celebrated a little early.

The finished bunelos. They are fried and covered in cinnamon & sugar. How could they be bad?
All in all it was a great trip and we had so much fun surprising everyone!




3 comments:

Watkins Clan said...

It is a good thing you had my recipe.

Sonia @ My Sweet Monkey said...

LOVE the Neiman's display.. we drove by there yesterday and now that you have the Italian yeast... time for Crostata... I'll have the recipe on our blogspot before we leave.

Arredondo Family said...

As always, we loved seeing you folks at dinner...email me those pics if you get a chance! Lots of Loves from the Arredondos.