Thursday, November 27, 2008

Christmas Tree Hunting

We thought it would be way fun as roommates to go cut down our own Christmas tree for our house. We'd heard a lot of people going up to Preston and getting permits so we planned to do it the Tuesday before Thanksgiving. Like most plans, they fell through and with Tasha leaving to Salt Lake for the Thanksgiving Break, Candace and I decided to just get it done.
We both got off work early the Friday after Thanksgiving so we borrowed my Dad's truck and headed north. After picking up a permit in Preston we headed for the hills. Spotting the perfect tree on the horizon we began our hike. After being chased by a moose, crossing two rivers, and nearly catching frost bite we arrived at our tree-which ended up being 15 feet tall-oops! Well I hope you didn't believe that story but I needed something good to tell. We actually ended up buying a tree at King's in Preston-lame we know. We did end up using the saw to cut off the end but that's all we can claim to our tree cutting adventure.

Not a bad tree for picking it out while it was wrapped up!
It was almost a little bit too full but it looked great in our front window, what else matters?

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Surviving Family Pictures

Oh the dreaded family pictures! The last time we took family pictures was 3 years ago, thrown together in our neighbor's backyard (while they were out of town I might add) and we have all changed a lot since, including the addition of a new brother-in-law. Christin's sister-in-law, Heather Taylor, took the photo's and did an awesome job. Here's a couple of my favorites: