Merry Christmas!

Brian and I, along with all our families and BangShift.com sponsors, would like to wish all of our friends and readers a very Merry Christmas. While we are frying up turkey here on the west coast, and roasting one to perfection out east, we hope that you find yourself with family and friends enjoying this special time of year. Unlike everyone else, we are going to encourage you to eat and drink to much. We hope that Santa is good to you and brings plenty of fun toys for you all to play with, young and old. And don’t forget to carry on, or start, a family tradition this year. We especially encourage the Christmas Burnout tradition and hope that you will share photos or videos with us!

To those members of the armed services defending our country and protecting the freedoms that we hold so dear, we also wish you and yours the best on this Christmas. Your sacrifice for us does not go unnoticed by Brian and I, and the wonderful readers here at BangShift.com.

To those families in Newtown, Connecticut, and all that have lost a child this year, know that our thoughts are with you and that those lost will not be forgotten. Those of us lucky enough to spend Christmas with our children will hug them just a little bit tighter this Christmas morning.

That’s all for us today. If you need us, we’ll be blowing donuts and jumping one of the remote control cars we gave our kids!

(Oh, and yes, these are photos taken from the Lohne’s and Reynolds’ family trees.)