Christmas

One of Ashley's favorite new toys

Papa, Ashley, Nana and Uncle Craig

Before the Chaos!

Christmas Eve

We had another fun but Crazy 24 hour Christmas! Dave's brother Mike and his wife Katie arrived on the 23rd to stay with us. They live in Vegas and return the favor later in the week when we come down for New Year's Eve! We spent Christmas Eve with Dave's family at their annual dinner. We arrived home around 10pm and did a few last minute preparations before Santa could come to visit. The next morning Ashley woke up around 8:30 and Dave had to meet Deb's family at the bottom of the mountain and bring them up to our house. We had a ton of snow coming down and nobody besides us has a 4 wheel drive vehicle. Once Dave picked them up, they took pity on a pour soul who was stuck and they arrived back at our house drenched from wet snow as they pulled and pushed the stranger out to the road. We didn't open presents until about 10:30am. After a nap for Ash and Deb we headed to Deb's parents house for some fabulous mesquite smoked turkey. For those of you who don't know, Deb's Dad smokes the turkey on a charcoal grill with mesquite for 3 hours and the result is the most moist , yummy turkey you'll ever eat! We then moved to Dave's parents house around 7pm to open presents with his side of the family and play some poker:) We finally drove home..in more snowy conditions... around 11pm and collapsed into bed. We spent the rest of the weekend going to movies and eating out with close friends. Thanks to Nana and Papa for helping babysit so we could have some adult fun!