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Saturday, December 13, 2008

Oh Christmas tree OhChristmas tree








Today we went and cut down a beautiful Christmas tree. We thought it would be fun to start a new family tradition. We went to a place called Dixie Valley north of our house by Lake Frenchman. It had snowed the night before and it made for a lovely drive. We normally go up there in the summer to spend time at the lake. The snow made for a whole new look at a familiar place.

We had planned to take our annual family photo before tree cutting...but that proved to be a bad idea. =) We dressed more for the family photo than we did for warmth. And needless to say we were a bit cold. So after hiking a little ways we found the perfect tree cut it down, posed for a few pics with the tree and heading back to the truck to get warm. Then home to decorate.

Our house smells wonderful with pine scent and the tree turned out neat. It is pretty funny though having had fake trees for so many years with what seem to be perfect branches. And now having a natural tree with branches scattered about. So decorating was a bit harder because you could not always put an ornament where you thought it should go because there was no branch. =) All in all we decided to be happy for the imperfections.

Monday, December 8, 2008

Thanksgiving





We had a wonderful Thanksgiving at my Aunt Teresa and Uncle Alan's house with my dad's side of the family. We made a lot of fun memories.