Jumpstart

It was the first weekend of December - a weekend to jumpstart the Christmas holiday for us!

Kevin and I enjoyed a fun night at the ALMH Christmas Party.  Good food, good drinks, good company, and good music! 

Yesterday, we ventured out for our traditional walk around Talbotts, in search of the "perfect" Christmas tree.

Normally, we're out there for a few hours, but yesterday, was a quick trip.  In just a short hour of our searching, we found it!

...and Makayla got to help daddy cut it down.

After we cut down the tree, we took the kids on a tractor ride around the farm and had a nice warm cup of apple cider.  Going to Talbotts has been a tradition for our family for as long as I can remember and it's a tradition that I'm going to carry on with my children.

Every year we always find The Perfect Tree.  Here's our perfect tree this year!

We of course had to cut about a foot off the bottom and foot off the top.  We always seem to get our trees too big!

And besides Christmas parties and tree decorating, we've been having a fun time with Elf.  He always has us searching high and low for him every morning!  We've found him sitting in our Christmas tree, laying on top of the tank watching the hermit crabs, and hiding in the refrigerator where he magically turned the milk green!  Yesterday morning, we found him sleeping in Makayla's underwear drawer!!

Here he's watching the crabs with one eye peeking out so he can still keep watch on the kids!

 When Makayla saw that he turned her milk green she said "eeeew, that's gross!", but then she quickly said "but I like it like that!!"...

I think she was afraid she hurt Elf's feelings that she said it was gross, so that's why she said she liked it green.  She made daddy taste it first and when he said it tasted good, she was good to go!

...there he is, sleeping in her underwear drawer!

I'm pretty sure Elf has some pretty neat ideas up his sleeve, but just has to find the energy at the end of the day to do them!

So far, December has been pretty good!  Santa visits, cookies, Christmas decorations, Christmas music...and soon we're going to start our Christmas shopping and hopefully enjoy the beauty of snowflakes within the next couple of days. 

Makayla's already telling me that I can't eat yellow snow!