OH CHRISTMAS TREE!

This year for Christmas we decided to get a "real" tree. We have never had one before so we set out on a journey to find one. We went to Victor to get a permit and the perfect tree. The kids went sledding while Lance and I searched.


The kids sledding. They found a huge hill to go down with a bump that sent them flying!


Lance getting ready to cut down the tree. We found one that we thought would be funny to take home, it had three tops and would have required three stars.


We each took turns cutting down the tree a little bit at a time!


We had so much fun looking for a Christmas tree and playing in the snow. We are going to have to make this a tradition to do every year.

Lysa decorating the tree. Okay, so having a real tree was fun to look for it and just spending time together, but when we got it home and started decorating it we had one problem! The decorations that we usually put on the tree were too heavy so they kept making the branches hang down or the ornaments would just fall off. We could only put about one fourth of the decorations on that we usually do. Every year the kids get to go and pick out a new ornament for the tree and they said, "Mom we can just find a light one so it will stay on the tree."


This is what the tree ended up looking like, not the fanciest, but the kids said that this was their favorite tree EVER! The kids wanted to sleep on the couch, by the tree, so they can look at it all night!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

We decided to try to use templates this year for our pumpkin carving and the kids loved it!
The Moffats came over for FHE and we had a night of carving pumpkins.

Lysa was so cute, after we carved out a bat for her pumpkin she decided that she wanted to write boo and pretty other things all over her pumpkin. Mason and Taylor both used their pocketknives to carve with.

The final result. We had bats, a skeleton skull, and scary faces!

Lysa is a witch/pirate, we couldn't decide. What a beautiful girl she is! She loved the red lipstick and keeps asking me everyday if she can wear it to Kindergarten!

Taylor is a scary demon, he just really wanted to wear the sticky horns on his head and have his sword. Lance helped paint his face. SCARY!

Mason is an evil Jester, he picked out his costume all by himself.


Getting ready for trunk and treat! This is one of the first years we stayed in Idaho Falls for Halloween and I was a little disappointed in the turn out for the trunk and treat! The kids loved it though because we went over to the church afterwards to meet up with some friends and they went trunk and treating again and they ended up with a TON of candy!

What a fun Halloween night, the kids had fun and got a lot of candy. Lance and I and some friends got into some mischief, which we still need to finish! What is Halloween without a little mischief right!