Christmas evening

Later in the day on Christmas we had a delectable prime rib dinner that Mark cooked perfectly.  Then we took to the hills like genuine mountain families.

I guess I didn't realize it was so cold out... we didn't bring the girls very warm clothes.. particularly for the duration.  Xiana spent much of the time playing with Haylee in Tim's truck.  Kolton slept in our truck the entire time.

Which is really quite impressive when you consider all the guns being fired.  There were new guns, old guns, and lots of trigger fingers.

Tosh was trying out her new gift.

I'm not going to lie, I found it to be the slightest bit jarring to walk around with so very many people holding guns.  Yet, it was perfectly appropriate... and fun!  I didn't get a shot of it, but Brian bought his dad three explosives for Christmas.  Needless to say he shot all three.  And boy did they go boom.  I felt like we were in the special effects department of a movie.  They were loud, and big.

I know her face screams bored, but she was impressed too.

Everybody was milling around, yelling loudly at each other in order to talk over their ear plugs.

Xiana and her uncle Larry.  She pretty much makes him hold her whenever he's around.

These cute cousins!

Cheese!

Mom and almost all her kids!

Ali really got into the shooting... so did Larry.  They loved it!

As did I!

We closed the night with some dance competitions on the kinnect.

And going up and down the stairs about a million times.  Fun fun fun times!  Later that night Xiana would throw up and start the plague... but for this moment, all was well in the land of Christmas.