It's a Christmas Miracle!

Here is our Christmas Tree! I am so excited becasue it is the best tree ever and we got such a good deal on it. So this year we went to Lowes first to look for trees, they had some okay ones, but we wanted to see if there was something a little better at home Depot. The problem is, they keep so many of these trees tied up to save on space, but no tree ever looks good once it's been untied. I think we have made the mistake of thinking one looks okay, and then after a day at home, there are huge gaps in it and it doesn't look that great. So at HD there were not very many that were untied. We were looking in the 6-7 foot section, which was in our price range, but nothing looked that great. I saw another tree a few feet away, and it was the PERFECT tree. It was beautiful at all angles and I knew it was the one. The problem was that it was considered 7-8 feet which was $20 more! I was so mad. So we went back to the other section and started looking some more. I pulled one out that i wanted the guy to cut open so we could look, and then I started to notice, it was the same size as my perfect tree. I had teh guy pull the other one over and check it out, and sure enough, they were the same size, but priced differently. So the guy let us seitch the price tags so that we got the tree we wanted for the price we wanted. Thank you Mr. Home Depot Christmas Tree Guy!

Chrsitmas Lights

It's Christmas Time!

I love this time of year, putting up the lights and decorations. Everything looks beautiful all lit up. Although I love the lights and decorations, for some reason, up here is the high dessert, people feel it necessary to put up their light and decs right after Halloween. I don't get that, but whatever. So Aaron went out and put up all the lights. He didn't want to brave putting htem on the second story, but that's okay. It was so much fun because we went out and started putting up the lights and our neighbors all came out and started putting thiers up too!

Thank You to my awesome hubby for getting up on the ladder and risking your neck to make our holiday happier! Now the kicker, after all the work, for some reason, the light keep burning out. We'll turn them on at the beginning of the vening, and then a fuse will blow out. We've tried to use and extension cord and do all sorts of different things, but we just can't seem to get them to work. I guess we'll just have to enjoy all the neighbors' lights.

The Stake Turkey Trot

Every year on Thanksgiving morning, our stake puts on a turkey trot. It's a 5K run and a mile run or walk. Aaron thought it would fun this year to go and to just walk the mile with Sadie. It was very COLD!!!! But we bundled Sadie up in her stroller and took off. We had fun and it was good to get out and exercise before we stuffed oursleves that day. Sadie wasnted to walk the last bit, so we let her gte out and walk, she cot to run across the finish line and they gave her a little medal. Fun was had by all!

Grandma Honor & Uncle Bruce

We were lucky to have Grandma Honor (my mom) and Uncle Bruce (my brother) come visit us for Thanksgiving. Sadie LOVED seeing them. She had so much fun with them. They showed up on Wed night after she had gone to bed, but we had told her they were coming. The next morning when she woke up, she wanted to go in and wake them up too! She convinced Uncle Bruce to color with her, which he was happy to do. She just thought they were the greates people since cheese! They are all she talks about now.