Decorating our Christmas Tree

After the great weekend of cutting trees I had some time to decorate said tree after a very hard time, and a lot of negotiation, selecting which one we wanted.

Rory wanted to help put the lights on the tree

Our first real Christmas tree! Isn't it beautiful!

Our traditional picture in front of the tree.

Tree Felling

We had a beautiful day a few weekends ago so we took advantage of it to cut down some trees on our property. Scott got to use a chainsaw and I kept Rory out of his way. We gave two trees away for people to use as their Christmas tree and we saved one for ourselves! We have a lot more open space now which is very nice!

The first of 6 trees

Rory had lots of fun playing outside

Teamwork, Scott cut while Dad G pulled

One of the 5 choices for our Christmas tree

Saving our walnut tree

Scott cutting down the apple tree

Ugly Christmas Sweater Party

A new tradition has started... Ugly Christmas sweaters!

My dear sister Emily created Scott's sweater out of a little girls dress, under the candy canes it says "yummy" which makes it more hilarious

Kevin making his favorite appetizer

Kevin and Maria in all their ugly sweater glory!

Laura made an appearance and she and Scott matched almost perfectly

Thanksgiving!

Scott and I have a lot to be thankful for! To name a few: our savior, our health, our house, our family, eachother, our dog... the list could go on! We had three full days of Thanksgiving, Thursday at the Grady house with the Bogenhagen family, Friday with the Dieringer family, and Saturday with the Grady family. I only captured pictures of the Grady family thanksgiving this year.

Scott showing his Grandpa pictures of what we have done with our house!

Such precious moments

The Grady family

Playing Hearts

Alex and Sara are getting married in June, and Becca and Jared