Christmas in the Desert

It was another magical Christmas with the family this year. We had a fairly eventful three days of Christmas this year. We will go back wards on this one because that is how we uploaded the pictures and there are to many pictures the change it now.

The day after Christmas we spent it with the Richardson side of the family, Courtney's Mother's side. We spent the day at Courtney's parents house with almost all the local Arizona residence. It is always good to get everyone together and we enjoyed a meal and played games. Below Braydon sits with his Uncle Clint and next to them is Braydons cousin Payton. The WII got some good use as there were a good number of kids.


Here is a good action shot of some the Mario Kart players. Brice, sitting in the middle, pretty much beat everyone when he played. Also playing is Megan on the far right. Watching and waiting their turn is Payton, Taylor and Uncle Bill. Braydon of course is taking matters into his own hands.


Here we spent time on the Davis side and Ian's brothers house. We had a good turn out here too with visitors all the way from Wisconsin. All the rest of us live in Tucson which made traveling pretty easy this year.

Below sit Braydon and Sydney wearing their new favorite tee shirts from their Crazy Great Uncle Jeff. If it is too hard to read, the shirts say "Cow Tipper in Training".


Here is Braydon in Sydneys Wagon. He got one just like it from his Uncle Clint and Aunt Ashley. He now has to sit in it when ever he is awake at the house. And yes we do have to pull him around the house for now.


Sydney was happy to share and go for a ride in her wagon. Hopefully Braydon will be able to return the favor someday soon.

Good shot of Sydney and her Grandpa Steve.

Here is a picture of half of the Davis Clan enjoying a meal together.

Here is the other half of the Davis group.

And this is yes the third half of the Davis Group. We are so special that we have three halves to make up the whole group.

Christmas Day!!

Here we are Christmas morning. We spent the night at Grammy and G-Pa Elliott's house. Believe it or not but Santa knew that we stayed there and didn't forget to bring Braydon's presents. Below is one of Braydon's new, we'll call it noise makers, toys. He can walk all around it and touch anything to make some sort of sound. The best part is the setting that makes everything in Spanish.

Courtney and Braydon open another fun toy. This one could be a problem some day soon, if Braydon follows in Ian's foot steps being a soccer player, there is bound to be something broken in the house. Lets just hope it is not a window at least.

Here Ian, aka the Security Elf, got to open another present with Braydon. We all had a good time watching Braydon's eyes open a little bigger with every present.

Christmas Eve!!

Here we are at the Elliott Party, Courtney's Dads side of the family. Most of the Family if local here in Tucson but some travel from California and it is sure nice to be able to have everyone there.

This picture is a little dark sorry but it was a good shot of about half of the group.

Here are Courtney's cousin Brooke, Aunt Nancy and cousin Erin.

Here is a good shot of a group of cousins sitting by the fire outside. We all had a great time and the only thing that would be better is not having to wait til next year to get everyone together again. Some how the years just fly by and before we know it Christmas has come again. We are blessed to have such great families and we only hope that you all had a Merry and Blessed Christmas as well.

Christmas Card Bloopers:

Everyone has them but no one ever shows them. We though it would be fun to have a little blooper selection for you all to enjoy. This is only a few of them but you can see how much fun it is to get one really good one. The good news is that this year we did not have to set up the camera and put it on a timer to take every picture. A special thanks goes out to Rachel for snapping all the pictures for us!!

Enjoy!!!