Christmas 1993

A family opens presents on Christmas morning 1993, with Dallas, Robbie, Ashley, Jason and others joking and teasing as they unwrap toys, clothes, and electronics. The home video captures spontaneous banter, inside jokes, and the chaotic energy of the gift-giving tradition.
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Dad?
Rob from Jean? Jason from Ashley?
Did you mark this one that Dallas and Sam was from?
No, no, no.
Here's a dad. Do the dad gifts have a pile?
Ashley.
Ashley. Here's an Ashley. There's the one Ashley went to open first. Are these numbers? Actually, too.
2 Rob from somebody.
Number total. Okay.
2 Rob, 38.
What is it, Dallas? Look at Robbie. Look at your dog. Look at the baby. A Chicago Cub baby?
White Sox.
Chicago White Sox. Oh, look at the dog. Oh! Jason? 47.
Do we have a code here?
Yep.
An index?
Please open it.
How about 44?
Ashley, what did you get?
How about 156?
No, don't open 44.
Oh my.
B12.
Yes, bingo!
You guys, you're taking all the fun out of this. I could ask every problem what number it is. No, let's just open it. Ashley, what is this? No, Whistle, you don't have any presents because you wrapped them all. I'm going to bring this one to Whistle. Yay! And Chewy. Oh, look what I got! This is for Dad. Oh, that's a clown. Andrew, that looks cool. It's a battle axe.
Well, it's in a small box.
Oh, that has That sounds—
uh, head's in the way.
Is that yours?
Uh-huh. All right. Yeah, but this is his. I guess we don't open it.
Okay, it doesn't open. It goes to something.
Good job.
Great.
Someone else's house and you won a bird.
Hey, just what you need, Rob.
Oh, that's right.
I'm going to get busy.
I got quite a few.
Well, tell your brothers they're getting you good gifts. Is your mom and dad? Green machine! Wow, Rob! I'll get it. See, you're squishing the boat. You saved the boat.
No, they're here.
Great. Turn that one. Brothers. All right, thank you, brother. That's cute.
A 1-year subscription.
Oh, that's cool. The Super Soaker 40.
And Jeremy's idea of the present—
he gets his present to the present. Hey Ashley, I gave you the sweats.
They are material. Oh, look at those colors.
Thanks, Mom. Oh, that's cute. I like that. That was from me. That's compliments from Heidi and Pam. I picked that out at the Amazon store.
That's what I've been needing. Thanks, Rob.
Andres, you like the big flowers?
But I didn't know where they were. This is them. You found them.
All right, everybody getting recorded here. I hate that big ugly hair dryer laying on your counter all the time. Mom bought us a snip from him. We got something from Rob and Jean. You sure can't take a picture of— isn't that cute?
Beautiful.
It was the only thing that was worth buying at the Santa Secret Shop. Isn't that good looking though?
That is. This from Rob Bagley.
Look at—
oh, that is beautiful. Mom, Heidi's purse. That is beautiful.
Thanks, Heidi. Do you have room for it on your wall? Oh yeah, I can put it on my shelf. Two Robs from his brothers.
Levi's Robin.
Levi's? Is that cotton?
Eddie Bauer shirt. Long sleeve even. I mean, he needs long sleeves.
This is a Heidi Pan. This looks exciting.
Something little and small.
Oh my. I think it's the purse that we saw.
Wow.
Oh my word. And a ring! Woo!
Wee!
Thank you, Dad! Cute! Thanks, high man!
Do you like them, honey?
I love them! What do you got there? I've seen her birthday card and I love it!
What's there? We have the new AP24 dental care kit from Jason.
Oh, watch me find out if you're a real man or not. I like it. It's horrible.
The mouthwash is the least favorite of them.
And I have one here. Rob can have it. I knew Rob would use it.
Here's a present from somebody.
There's no alcohol in it. I sent one to Richard. I sent one to Richard and I put, uh, the mouthwash. It's very heavy. Oh, look at the clothes from Grandma. I love that shirt. I love that shirt. I'll get you one. Yay!
Largest. Can you find one for Dallas? Those are nice. Thanks, Ash.
You're welcome. Those are really nice.
What? Can it move?
That is cool. I would steer it all day long. Wear the blow-off cap. It's tight pants. Oh, this is cute.
Hey, new chair.
Chair.
You're dead, Andrew. You're dead.
To Robby from Lisa and Ashley.
All right, wallet.
Just what I've always wanted. And you're keeping track of the box mix.
Good job.
Look at these little slippers.
Wow.
Oh, Dallas, that's cute for the bath. I think it's A Christmas Carol. Oh, nice.
What is it?
Charles Dickens' Christmas Carol. And Merry Christmas. We got that left from my parents. How fun. Matching green pants.
Ooh, that's really nice.
My parents gave me two purses.
Looks like Rob Bagley's purse in it.
New jeans from Mom and Dad. Mom, you're not throwing your paper away. Yeah, cute. A fat shirt for me. Thanks. Perfect.
You know what, most of these shirts aren't too odd. We amazing. Speaker:ROB BAGLEY] Homemade. Speaker:ROB BAGLEY] Speaker 2.
That one I love. I like the other ones too. Oh my goodness.
The bagley jar is so easy to dump.
To go in my new jewelry box. Oh my word.
Wow, look at that jewelry, man. That's why the jewelry box.
Mom, did you find this? Put all your rings on, Mom. Hey, Mom, thanks.
Here's a stack of jewelry.
Did you find this, or did you buy more, Mom? I like it. You can take anything back and buy some junk.
Throw the tag off that, I think it's yours.
Oh, that's pretty. No, this one.
New start shampoo. Help give me a new start.
New start, that's what he needs. This is from Santa. You like my party ring?
The new community.
That's very tiny.
That's cool.
Well, they were having the—
is this the one?
Cute. Older lady, she only found one that she liked. Thanks, Mom. Oh, that's nice. Wow. To Mom and whoever else. Just get all the paper off. Anna of Avonlea movie. Got the Anne of Green Gables at my house, now I have Anna of Avonlea. Thanks. Oh wow, that's out of Cars Unkillable! Oh my God, I love those! Ashley, where's the markers that go to it? I tried to open these.
Yes, new BBDs! Looks kind of like Heidi's— Heidi's present.
Thanks, Mom. Let's see that. I hope you like it. So well, his has got a darker face.
Is that a—
oh, I forgot to open this. This is Jeremy's big exciting gift.
Jared, show your face.
He's showing this to all of his friends and people in Japan. He wants to see what you really look like.
Close-up of Mom, her new watches and beautiful ring. These things only last for a year. You can get one every Christmas, you're all right. Do you want to take a picture of me? Okay.
Jeans, Mom, thank you! I've been waiting Oh, fun! Oh, I love that.
Oh, very good.
Yeah, that's perfect. That's why I didn't get dressed because I knew I was getting it. I'm sorry. You're gonna probably have 3. These are exactly like—
I like it.
Did you have any idea? These are exactly like this one. This one's a little bit like this. No, don't scream, Heidi.
Heidi and Ben.
You got me to watch. That's our little Eddie Bauer run we found.
Who got the race? There's Jason and Andrew and— Dallas, can you give this to Daddy? Where's Dallas? There's Dallas!
He's got the duck.
Say hi! Hi!
You're gonna scratch my back? Okay, he doesn't even know.
Jason's opening a present. What is it?
Mom, I got Western stuff and Barbie! Look at Mommy! Thank you, Daddy! This one's got an answering machine.
And all these phones. Those two have to be on different channels or they'll talk on the same line. How many we got here?
We got 3. We have one for the bathroom, one for over here. This is Van's only surprise Present. Thank you very much. Oh, that's nice.
My favorite color.
You're welcome.
Well, he's got something to replace that. Let me go. Where is it? No, not his bum.
It's close. He can only reach so high.
Back.
Well, thanks everybody. Hey, Dallas. Hey, hey, he wants to sound this.
Concentration.
Dallas, Dallas, there's a present for you. Then wait till— just turn him around. Mom can ask him. Yeah.
Ooh, Dallas! You have a weird hand, sis.
Yeah, I told you I found 3 of them. I thought you found one. Wow, Dallas!
Golf ball! All right, can I have my back scratcher back now?
What is it, Dallas? Go, go, Dallas! What'd you get?
You can bang that on the cement all you want.
That's from Dad. Dallas, what does a golf club do? Ash. No, golf balls. Oh, nice.
We bought a couple extra packs. They sold extra golf balls.
Van, scoot over a sec.
All right, Van, scoot over.
I'm trying to get him one. Well, King will eat the balls, so— oh, all right, look at that carry-through!
Yeah, where'd he go?
Good job, Dallas! No, no, I barely made it in time until 11:00 and I got there about 10:30. Good hit, Dallas!
I got an inner flag.
No.
Oh, it's first miss. Mine's done.
You can take back your phone.
Jeremiah said you should get it.
Wow.
I just wore it. There's Jason and Chewy and Dallas with his new golf club.
Is Robbie throwing a fit?
Robbie has been up since 5:30. He's been good for a long time.
Wow.
Dad's given up on the Christmas party.
You can't go swimming in it. You can wash your hands in it, but I wouldn't shower in it. Besides, you don't want to do that anyway because it ruins the watch band.
All right, we're not doing that. What is it? It's AP 24 Anti-Poison. The new book in World Book Encyclopedia. All right.
We got the World Book Encyclopedias! Yay! Yay! Look how it goes wild! Woo!
Watch them O's, Robby! World Book! Now we can be smart!
Here's our house on a lovely Christmas morning. There's the car Jason just bought to sell. Here's our new door. You can get in the house. A whole bunch of Christmas festiveness. Christmas fest— Mom, how about look at the orange? Our new little dog Chewy.
Chewy! Got a present from Heidi and Ben. Hey, you gotta go up with yours. Watch out, Ashley, he might smack you.
Good swing!
Good practice swing. Now let's see the real thing. Good job! Okay, second shot, going for the 5.
Whoa, doggy!
Line it up. You're having a problem.
It's the carpet.
Dallas, out of control!
Dallas, what'd you get?
Dallas, there it is!
Right off her foot.
Dallas, come here. Come on, Dallas.
On the grass. Go bike, go bike.
Well, he's already played with this for quite a while.
Ready, Dallas? Dallas and Rob, young Ashes, ashes, we all fall down.
That's how Dallas is the same way. He won't fall down.
Is that fun?
They like that airplane.
What's that, Robbie? What is it, Dallas? Did we find a big airplane there?
You know what, Heidi?
You don't.
Spin circles, Andrew. Dallas loves spinning. He likes dancing. Are you dancing, Dallas?
Jump! He had 6 weeks, you know, 6 weeks out of his life he couldn't use his right hand. So dude, if you were right-handed, that probably make you left-handed. Yeah, but he already favored it before then. Like, I would have said he was left-handed before then.
Jump! Throw it! Throw the ball to Robbie!
Play ball, Dallas. Robbie, you wanna play catch with Dallas? Dallas is gonna throw you the ball.
Mm-mm, he wants to climb up there and jump off and— No, throw it. Hey, have you guys been on this thing yet?
Hey, you wanna go ride a horse? Right there.
Right there. Dallas, hang up.
Probably the more playful.
This is a neat little— uh-oh, we have the pregnant lady.
I'm sure I don't weigh more than you, Daniel.
No, I'm—
how much do you weigh? Hey, look, see, Joe's Dallas, are you playing the drums?










