December 2009

Well I finally gave into this blogging thing. My goal is to be better about blogging and photographing our life and its happenings more in 2010. So here it goes. . . .

We started out December by cutting down this beauty...

(Thanks Mary!)

It's a tradition that Tyler and I have to get a permit and cut down our own tree every year for Christmas. We love it! Every year has a different adventure and every year we create crazy memories. (There is only one picture because I didn't realize that our camera hadn't been charged before we left.)

But as you can see in the picture, our tree was in a very tricky place. (Tyler was only a few feet away from me and you can barely see him through the branches! It was on a very steep hill and it was very hard to walk through all the dead branches and plants that covered the ground-it made for an interesting time trying to get the chainsaw started.:-) But we eventually cut it down, carried it down the hill, across a river and got it into the Yukon. It was a lot of fun and a lot of laughing, and we loved the tree!

Then we went to an Ugly Christmas Sweater Party with our good friends.

These are the sweaters Tyler and I found at D.I. We thought they were pretty ugly and had fun getting dressed up in them.

The night was filled with great food, fun games, and lots of laughs with friends. It was a blast and as you can see everyone looked awesome.

Here are a few pictures of Christmas day. I am trying to be better about having my camera with me and taking pictures, but until I get better at that, I only have a few pictures.

Here are some pictures of Tyler opening his presents. My favorite is of him opening the Wii that his mom got us. I knew about it for a month and had to come up with ways to deter him from buying one without telling him that he was getting one. Needless to say, you can tell that he was super surprised and super excited for it.

And here are some pictures of me.

This picture is because for the past two years we have gotten each other the exact same stocking game! Last year it was Canasta and this year it was Scrabble Slam! Ha.

We hope all of you had a great Christmas and we wish you all a Happy New Year!

P.S. I start work and school again on Monday, so we'll see how this whole blogging regularly thing goes. Wish me luck!