Our Christmas Tree!

This year we bought our very own Christmas tree! I begged and begged till we finally went to the store and picked it out along with all of the decorations. I feel like it really is Christmas time now with a tree in our house! It is fake, I've always been raised with real trees, but since we're renting, we don't think we can have real trees in our house. This is good though because we will have it for many years!

While we were putting up the tree Rodney decided to be funny and put the two branches in for arms. It made me laugh.

Here is Rod by our undecorated, but put up tree.
And here it is! Some of it looks gold to me in the picture, but it's just silver and blue. I like it a lot!

Light Parade & Cubes of Butter

During the Thanksgiving break my little brother and his girlfriend Amanda had to sing at the light parade ceremony thing so all of us girls and the kids went up and watched. It was a lot of fun, but Katie was a little aunry towards the end! lol

The park in Fillmore has lights up every year from the different businesses in town, this is just one little side part.

As you can see, Katie is very upset about the seat belt and going home, while Josi is completely ready for a picture. lol

Katie was ready too by the time we were pulling in the drive way.

So when we got home from the light parade all of the adults gathered into the dining room and we started playing catch phrase. Gavyn was playing with us too, so we put on a movie for Josi and Katie. Wellllll.......... guess who puts butter cubes in the freezer and has a freezer on the bottom of the fridge? My mom. Guess what two little girls think that butter is like chocolate? Yep, these two! I didn't get a picture of both of them cuz they both got in trouble too fast, but here is Katie holding a whole cube of butter with most of the top half gone and Josi had one just like it, except she had even eaten some of the paper that she couldn't get off!! haha Gross!!

Thanksgiving

This year for Thanksgiving we stayed at my house and then we went up to my family's one room cabin and ate dinner there. It was a lot of fun with some of my cousins and their kids as well. Here is from left to right my dad, my cousins son Garett, Rodney, my little brother Kolton, and my older brother Kolby.

It's kinda small inside, but it's nice because we can all chat with each other.

My Aunt Jan brought playdough for the kids. It's a good thing too because it was rainy that day and the kids were getting restless inside! This is my Aunt Jan helping the boys with their playdough.

Here is my mom helping my niece Josi with her playdough.

This is my nephew Gavyn.

Outside of the cabin my dad piles up all of the limbs that he cuts off of the trees around the cedar field. We call it the cedar field because all around the cabin and our correls there are tons of cedars. Anyway, he piles them up and then as soon as we have a big pile of them we have a bon fire. We do this a couple of times during the year, we did it during Easter this year and then now at Thanksgiving. It is a fun tradition and when it dies down we roast hot dogs and marshmellows, although having it at Thanksgiving this year didn't leave us much room for hot dogs!

The kids love playing with fire and throwing more wood on.

Here is Rod and Katie eating a marshmellow after the bonfire!

Gavyn had a fake mustache and it looked so funny on him we were all laughing.