The Story of a McBrayer Christmas (Part VI..looked it up)

Chapter 6: Over the river and through the woods to Grandmother's house we go!

Ahh....the cool, fresh air of the mountains! We arrived to Cloudcroft on a rather pleasant day with a high of 38 degrees! There was some remaining snow on the ground from the last storm, but we held out hope that a fresh blanket of white was soon on the way.....
We settled into the cabin and unpacked a few bags, then set to work putting up our "Charlie Brown" tree. This pathetic little tree has been in the family for many years now. It is a real hassle to go out and get fresh-cut tree, decorate it, and be forced to take it down and dispose of it a week later, so we just use our skinny, little artificial "Charlie". Grandma and Paw-Paw have their real tree up at their house, of course, but those who dwell in our cabin are a wee-bit lazy......Each year, Aunt Mandy comes through for us and totes Charlie all the way from Roswell to Cloudcroft in her crammed car trunk. Grandma usually has some extra ornaments to add to it each year, and Aunt Rhona is usually in charge of making Charlie presentable (ha...what a pun). Sadly, Aunt Rhona (Seester) was not here this year (sniff, sniff), so Kaelan and mom did our best to make-over Charlie.

From the moment we landed on Planet Home........the action began! Relatives came out of the wood, er...woods! Cousins, aunts, uncles, grandparents, friends.........home.

Kaelan gets love from Maw (Great Grandmother).

The games.....Kaelan just loves playing good old fashioned board games with her cousins an aunts....while the dudes go down in the basement and play Wii.

COUSINS

Cold...playground fun. Gavin and Kaelan

Izi, Taylor and Kaelan Izi and Kaelan (quick, get a picture...they are not fighting)

Lexi and Kaelan Snowy walk (Izi and K)

On Christmas morning, it is pretty much standard behavior to wear your pajamas until later that night when we eat Christmas dinner.....here are a few of us keeping the tradition alive!

Unlce Jeb, Aunt Alex, Sandra and Kaelan

I scored the best present of all....

...wouldn't you agree?