Oh Christmas Tree, Oh Christmas Tree

I haven't posted in over a week....sorry. We are all doing awesome as is the rest of the family....thank goodness. We think we are going to be "good to go" for Christmas festivities. AND, even if someone has a cold....BIG DEAL!

We are enjoying the holiday season. It seems like each year is more fun. This year Emma is thrilled with all of the Christmas lights and Lauren loves our tree. Except the other day when she tried to eat a pine needle. Ouch! We have been working on a little project for Aunt Stacy for Christmas and it was going to be a great surprise till Emma shared that surprise with her the other night. That's what I get for having Emma "help" with the special surprise.

A HUGE thank you to Stacy for coming over to babysit on Saturday night so Dave and I could enjoy ourselves at my work Christmas party. Emma had the best time decorating the gingerbread house and I'm sure eating lots of the candy that was to go on the house. We thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. AND Katie....thanks for being our backup for that night. We will definately keep you in mind for the future. How about Jan 6th? :)

We did make it out to the Christmas tree farm (or "valley" if you're Emma) eventhough it was totally cold. We picked out a tree pretty quickly, but it is gorgeous once again.

We had more pictures taken today with Patrick and Cecilia and they are absolutely PRICELESS. I wish I had more wall space to hang all of them. I'm not going to post any tonight cause I have to download all of them and some of you will be getting a copy for Christmas, so maybe we'll keep them a surprise. We surprised mom again with them. Now we all need some frames.

I have been off of work for over a week. I had some vacation time to "burn" by the end of the year, so I am totally enjoying my time off and getting a little shopping done too. Dave is going to enjoy deer hunting later in the week while I am off work.

I've got to get to my Christmas cards so that's it for tonight.