Christmas Fun

Today we went out and cut our Christmas tree. What a fun outing it was. The tree farm we visited was a ways out in the country so we had a beautiful drive. The owners had made a darling little nativity scene with real sheep - so before we headed out into the muddy mini forest we had to stop and feed the sheep:

There are no pictures of Jacob as he was a bit afraid of those woolly creatures.

Esther was far more interested in her thumb than the perfect tree - she was just so relieved to be out of her baby jail (the car seat :0)

Once we found our tree everyone (except Mommy and baby - of course) took turns cutting it down

Go, Jacob, go!!

Success!! The reward for trailing around the muddy tree farm and cutting down the tree was a big cup of hot cocoa and a roasted marshmallow the nice tree farm people gave the kids. Such fun!!

But the blessing of a gorgeous sunset that we all enjoyed as we cut our tree was from God!!!!

What a fun - memory making day!! (our teens opted out of this part of the merry making this year as it was pouring down rain when we left - maybe they thought their hair might get messed up or something?) God cleared the skys for us and gave us beautiful scenery and we all had a great time!!