Christmas

 On Christmas Eve we decided to take a family hike. This may become a yearly tradition no matter where we are. If it's snowy we'll go snow shoeing or cross country skiing. But it was sunny so a regular hike it was.
I really didn't think that there would be too many people out because, hello, it's Christmas Eve. They should have better things to do like make a huge Christmas dinner and be with family. Apparently, not in Bullhead/ Laughlin area. As you can see from the picture below, there are quite a few cars in the parking area. Okay, you can only see 3. But there were more then that!

This place was right across the bridge into Laughlin.

 My handsome mountain man. He was so excited to get in the outdoors that he brought along his homemade camp stove and a pan to cook something in. Unfortunately, he didn't get the opportunity to use it. 

 Some of the rocks with petroglyphs on them. Apparently this place is sacred to the native american tribe in the area.

 My girls being themselves which is anything but quite and reverent in the sacred place.

 Kaity and her rock.

 Breanne said that this rock formation looks like a camel. So that's what we'll call it. Camel rock. Do you see it?

 

There is water in the desert! It had just got done raining for the past 4 days so there was a pretty cool little river that ran all the way down the rocks. We had to jump across it several times to keep going up.

 The night before Christmas and all through the house not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.

 and the stockings were hung by the (eh hem) counter with care in hopes that St. Nicholas would soon be there.

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Christmas morning!

Hope you all had a fun and relaxing Christmas because we sure did. It was nice to have Cameron home for a few days. We even went out a bought ourselves a BIG Christmas tree during the after Christmas sales. It's 7 1/2 feet tall and about 3 1/2 feet wide at the bottom. With our tree topper on we have taken it right up to the ceiling.

 We also got the girls some fish. This one here is "Watson".

This one is "Sherlock". 

The girls would really enjoy a pet that they can play with but this will have to do for now.

Cameron is really liking the job over here. They have him all checked out in the multi engine aircraft and is now one of 2 multi engine instructors. One of the "big wigs" with the company, Senior, has really taken a liking to Cam as well. He's went flying quite a bit with cam to get him his multi hours so he could instruct in their aircraft (which I guess he doesn't do with anyone) and he gave our family a spiral Christmas ham that was delicious. The company also gave a smaller ham and a big tin of Schwann's ice cream. YUM! On top of that, I bought a 9 lbs ham! That's a lot of ham. So we gladly gave one ham away because who needs that much. Our freezer is only so big.