I tried taking some pictures of my youngest daughter before church. Braids are not her best look, but here are the pictures anyway.

Can I just say that I laugh every time I see our poor little tree. The kids get mad if I make too much fun of it though. They love it because we went up to the mountains and cut it down ourselves. ;)

Well, we had our first snow on December 1st! The next day we went out and played in it before it quickly melted away. We went from snowy, to windy, to flooding. We didn't get that much wind though. We sure can have crazy weather around here sometimes.


















Dad pulled our oldest son in a little sled. The snow was pretty much nothing but slush, but they had a great time. It was also raining, so he got pretty soaked.













The first thing my daughter wanted to do was to build a snowman. She was so excited.















Here is our family. I think I was a good sport to have my picture taken even though I wasn't looking that great. :)




































Of course the boys loved throwing snowballs at each other.

Here are some pictures of us getting our tree. It is such a sad thing, but hey! We cut it down ourselves! We call it "The nine-hour tree" because that is how long it took us to get it, and we almost went off the mountain too...maybe I should try and include that in the name somehow. My friend has good snow driving skills. She drove us into the ditch instead of off the cliff and into the river. Nathan and another guy weren't so lucky. Nathan had one wheel hanging over the edge of the cliff. The guy that was helping everyone RAN to his jeep and got some chains. Anyways, what a crazy adventure we had! BTW, there was a long line of vehicles trying to get off the mountain...they all got stuck in the same place we did. That is what took most of the time. Waiting for our turn to get stuck and then rescued. Fun times!