Thanksgiving

Stacie made a great Thanksgiving spread again this year. She was busy preparing and cooking pies all day before and made a great turkey dinner the next morning. We have this agreement where she cooks, and I eat it. It's been working out pretty well so far - especially for me. I did help with a couple of things, but she deserves the credit. It was just the 6 of us at home this year, but we enjoyed just being together. We burned calories just watching Elsie be herself. A couple pieces of pie wires her up. Actually, she doesn't need a couple pieces of pie. You can tell in this pic she was already hyper with no food in her tummy at all.


Friday we went up to WY for the annual Christmas tree extraction. There was very little snow this year in comparison to years past, but we could tell winter was setting in, it was really cold. Here we are after dragging our tree down the mountain. Chloe was the driver, I was the trailer hitch. We forgot to take our camera up for the tree hunt, so we just have a couple of pics when we got back to the car. Addie and Elsie were too busyy playing with cousins to get any pictures. Rhen was a trooper and didn't cry at all as we hiked all over. After 45 minutes of hiking in the cold, all the trees start looking better and better. We look forward to this every year because most of the Englands show up to get their trees as well. It makes for a fun outing with lots of laughs. I always remember the year Josh had the flu but didn't tell anyone. So we're all looking for trees and he's sneaking behind them to puke. That goes to show you how fun family traditions are. Even though Josh was puking, he just couldn't miss it. We were sad to have to leave when the entire family was together and making lots of tasty food; but really happy we were able to see them all, even if it was just a couple hour visit.

Here is Rhen - cute like his mommy. The tear on his cheek was from when we got him out of the car and bundled up. It just kinda froze there on his cheek and didn't move. Yesterday we wired up the tree and got it all decorated. Looks nice there in the corner next to the fireplace and fills the room with a pine scent. Crazy Christmas is here again already.



Hope you all had a great weekend!