It's Christmas Time!

On Saturday we got our tree. It was the first big storm of the season and we thought that would be kind of fun to pick a tree while a few snowflakes flew around. Well, there were more like a million snowflakes flying around and we tromped through several inches of snow to find the perfect tree. It is tradition to go to a tree lot in Sandy that has some real live reindeer and of course Santa too! This year we saw 4 reindeer, all girls. There were even two that were going to have babies, that was exciting. But the best part was that two of the reindeer, Snow Dancer and her cousin, were missing an antler each because they got into an argument during their reindeer games :) Santa had been out shoveling and was wearing his work clothes, that was fun too. Also, the tree lot mascot, Tiko the dog, was running around and greeting everyone. She was totally cute and wanting to be part of all the action. She is in a few of our pictures even!

The tree was covered in snow and VERY wet after the ride home so it had to dry in our garage. Finally, on Sunday afternoon, we got to decorate it. Cole was a great helper with lights and ribbon. Macie wasn't really interested until it was time for ornaments. Cole and Macie did a very good job decorating the tree, which was completely bottom-heavy with ornaments and bulbs, until a little elf, aka Adrienne, rearranged the oranaments sometime during the night!!