Good deal. It sounds like you and the family had a Christmas to remember! I hope you got some of the action on video, because it'll never happen exactly the same.
I'll wish your family and everyone else's a safe trip back home.
I'll try to explain how our family spends Christmas. During recent years, we have a dinner at the "carpet shop", on Christmas Eve, it's a pretty good set up.
They have 8 or 10 folding tables and chairs. With 3 or 4 guys helping, it only takes 15 minutes to get everything lined up and all. I'm fortunate that I have some very good cooks in the family. I think we had 2 tables full of "real" food and another table covered with desserts.
Just our family and friends, nobody counted, but there were 20 some of us there. Several folks didn't show because of the roads.
Christmas night we always gang up over at Mom's house. And basically do it all over again. We had a house full, I think about 18 or so, counting the kids. We really don't have any young kids in the family now. Sister Barb's grandaughter recently got married, so, you never know?
But Kimberly and I checked out Mom's house, everything is still the same as it was, and I expect it to stay that way.
We were silly for not taking pictures, it'll never happen exactly the same. But we had a good time.