It's December

NOTE:  I wrote this post several weeks ago and finally got the pix fixed to add to it...can't believe it is this late being posted...eek!

WOW.....I can't believe it is already December.  So you know what that means.....CHRISTMAS!

M didn't like it but we put the lights on the outside of the house the Saturday after Thanksgiving.  She doesn't like anything Christmas until Dec 1st.  I know...she is weird.  But she was put out and we told her too bad.  It was a nice day and we were doing it.

T wasn't here to help us this year, so the girls were more than happy to get out on the roof to help.  But no one wanted to be a daredevil like T and so we only put them up around the bottom half of the roof.

 

Then came the hunt for our Christmas tree.....

 

We have been so busy and with all the Saturdays taken up for at least part of the day, we have had no time to get to the mountains to get our tree.  We need pretty much a full day with travel time and "hunting" time and we just don't have it this year.  I could have pulled them out of school like I did last year, but it is just gotten so crazy.  So we had a couple of hours before M's game one Saturday and so we tried a new place.  We didn't want to go to a lot and buy those perfectly shaped trees, so we were happy when I found a place out in Black Forest that had them like the forest.....cut your own. 

gotta laugh....hubby forgot his gloves so used J's

It was weird to be on flat ground and have absolutely NO snow.  It was a chilly morning so we were happy to have our gloves at least.  There were not a lot to choose from.....compared to the mountains where we have millions to pick from.  But we did find one.  J took over the job of helping carry it back to the car.

We were even able to feed some alpacas and then head for breakfast before M had to be to her game.

 

Of course, then we had to decorate.  That would have to wait a few days until FHE as we have too much going on....no surprise there.  But we had a great time as usual.  Earlier in the day we went and let the kids pick out their yearly ornament.  They picked their usual, although J picked out Mater which I was surprised at.  We even got T his normal.  We hung it on the tree with a couple of other ones of his.  We sure miss him......just not the same without him.

T's plane to add to his collection

finished!

So I just have the banisters to decorate and then it will be on to wrapping the presents.  Not done shopping yet, but.....