Tis the Season

We have been really busy the past couple weeks with lots of Christmas fun! Kaiya was at her dad's house, I called to ask her if she wanted us to wait for her to get home to come with us to find a tree. She said she wanted us to just go without her so Cirdan, Ella and I jumped in the car and headed to the tree farm. Last year we learned that hiking through the trees with a saw in the cold and mud was no fun for us and that we were better off just buying the tree from the pre cut section. We found the perfect tree....okay, well maybe it wasn't perfect. We got it home to realize that the stump was too big for the tree stand. Cirdan had to run to the store to buy a saw so he could "fix" it. After a few hours we finally got it up in the stand. Since it took awhile, it became bedtime and we decided to decorate it another night.

We went to my parents house for our annual decorating of Gingerbread Houses. We were supposed to do it on a Saturday night but our family and Amy and Emma were sick so Nate's family and us ended up going on Sunday night. Kaylee, Stacey, Mom and Dad had done theirs the night before.

Kaiya helped us a bit and Ella just tried to eat all the candy. Its fun to have the family grow (Amy and Cirdan) to get some new decorating ideas. Every year we all have to out do each other. Kaylee and my mom did really good on their roof! My dad worked many hours on his house and it was covered with candy.

Imbler house...(nerds roof)

My dad and Staceys...Mom and Kaylee's...




Also some pictures of decorating the tree. Cirdan's job is always the lights (I hate that part). Kaiya and Ella had fun putting on all the ornaments.