The Brief
- Several cousins surprised their grandparents with a sleepover before Christmas.
- The video they made has gone viral.
- Grandson Daniel Miller said family should put away their differences, especially at the holidays.
LOS GATOS, Calif. – A heartwarming and now-viral video is setting the internet on fire, as cousin after cousin pours into Toni and Carroll Blackstock’s living room, surprising the sweet octogenarians with hugs and sleeping bags a few days before Christmas.
What the video shows is the couple’s grandchildren re-creating “Grandparents’ Christmas” held in Los Gatos, Calif. – a tribute to an annual tradition of more than a quarter-century, which for several years had gone by the wayside.
As of Wednesday, the video that one of the grandchildren, Daniel Miller, 35, of Tracy, Calif., posted on Facebook had more than 12 million views and 111,000 likes.
“We had no idea that this was going to go viral,” Miller said. “We honestly just made this video for the cousins and the extended family, and obviously, our grandparents to remember the day.” …