It's begining to look a lot like Christmas!

This weekend we did our annual Christmas Tree hunt. It is the one time of the year that I get TOTAL control. My parents let me have the final say on which tree we cut down. I have a habit of picking the tallest, fattest tree I can find! Every year my dad tells me it's the last year, but I know he enjoys it as much as I do!! This year my dad was hunting and Erin had clinicials, so it was just my mom and I. We walked around and around...and I just wasn't finding "IT" the perfect tree. It was freezing, and we didn't have a lot of time, so I settled on one (I NEVER settle...I should have known better!) The tree was a little thinner then I ususally go for, but it was nice and full and very tall, so I said...THIS ONE! I was excited as the man was sawing my tree down....

I was happy with the tree at this point....BUT....then the guy cut it down...and I mean CUT IT DOWN. He basically butchered the poor thing! I was disappointed!! Tim kept telling me it was a pretty tree and I kept telling him, "you just don't understand!!!" To prove my point, 5 different people have been at my parents house since the tree went up and EVERY one of them has commented on how small it is!! Sad...

I promised Tim I was done whining about my tree...and I GUESS I can admit, it IS a pretty tree!! And we had a fun time decorating it!!

This was Tim's contibution to the tree...it's a Fareway reciept. I had to follow him around and rearrange most of what he did! One time I found 4 ornaments on one branch!! And every hawkeye ornament was either upside down, or underneath the tree!!!

It's tradition...I always put the star on top!


Here's the finished product....it is pretty...especially with the "fire" by it!

I don't know why....but I love this picture!!

Our Stockings waiting to be filled by "Santa"

Erin and I

Timmy and I

Yeah, We're nerds!

That's my dad....you can't see him because of his Camoflauge!

Tim being an Elf

He's a goof, but he's my goof!!

The Jolly decorating crew...my brother is on the phone...it's the only way we could get him in the picture. He was there until we started playing the Christmas music and then he left. He's kind of a scrooge!

My mommy and daddy!