Our Events This Past Week

We are enjoying the holiday season.

The weather has been extremely cold last week. As a result the pond in our backyard was frozen over several inches thick. The kids had a great time skating on the ice.

They wanted all of their friends to come over and play on the ice as well.

On Saturday the ice was still several inches thick, but because of the rain there was water on the top of the ice.

Little Miss in her Christmas outfit.

Baby number 4 is getting bigger. Tonight while I was reading Leo a bedtime story the baby was kicking. Leo was able to feel the baby and thought that was pretty cool.

I had to bribe Leo it wear a tie.

Midge did her hair and I thought she looked so cute. She won't let me do her hair anymore. We have such battles around it. We have finally compromised that I get to style her hair 3 times a week and she gets to do it 4 times. The condition is when I style it I have to do it in 10 minutes or less.

Roses and Trees

We are so thrilled that our Oregon Ducks made it to the Rose Bowl. It brought back memories when I was able to travel with some friends to Pasadena my freshman year of college to watch the Ducks play in the Rose Bowl. The kids had fun watching the game and cheering for the team.

Man if looks could kill.

On Saturday we had planned on going to a Christmas tree in Corvallis to get a tree at a tree farm. We woke up on Saturday morning to Midge yelling that Leo was sick to his stomach. Needless to say our plans changed. We still had to get a tree, so Midge and Ken led the search for the family. We have a tradition in our family of cutting down our own trees. Each year we try to get a different tree than what we have ever had before.

Ken and Midge looked all over a tree farm. The above one was a type of cedar.

This was a 10 foot white pine, a little too big for our house.

Here is the one we chose. It is an 8 foot white fir.

It was a very heavy tree, but Midge was such a trooper she helped Ken carry it all the way back.