Christmas Tree Hunting

After a perfect Thanksgiving we are in full swing for Christmas!  Today we headed out to find our family Christmas tree.  We drove up by Mesa Falls and found a little road to look for the perfect tree.  Like on National Lampoons Christmas Vacation when the light beams down from the sky to the perfect tree.  Yea, that was us today :)

One thing we have realized time and time again since moving here is how perfect this place has seemed for us.  The day after Thanksgiving is free reign for decorating for Christmas and putting up Christmas trees in some areas, so we thought it would be busy up in the mountains.  but we didn't see a single person.  It was wonderful!!  We are loving Idaho. 

(Eli is into sticking his tongue out instead of smiling.  sheesh.  He must be 2)

 There were bear claw scratches all the way up this tree.  Pretty crazy!

 Just a little snow snack waiting for Dad to cut down the tree

So my genius brain forgot to put in the memory card on the camera, so they were saved on the internal memory. I haven't found the cord since moving yet so I can't get the picture off! Ggrrr. I tried to take a picture of the screen for the general idea, but I'm hoping I can get them off soon. 

That's our tree!

That's my man ;) 

 Isn't it cute?!?!

 I happened to take a picture right at the point in our movie where they were decorating the tree too.  haha!

 There it is, in its crooked, sparse, and perfect glory!

 I let Eli decorate a little tree for his room and he insisted on topping it with his....socks. 

Fo-Flakes

Oh how excited this little boy was to wake up to "SNOW-ME". (Snow in regular English. Haha). He couldn't even wait to eat breakfast to go play. I didn't look at the temperature until we were back in but it was a scorching 9 degrees. 

No wonder we lasted 2.7 seconds out there!

Pumpkin Painting

Because we were moving the week of Halloween, we didnt even celebrate with any of our traditions! We didn't get to the pumpkin patch, didn't carve pumpkins, and barely trick or treated to 4 doors. Luckily Eli is young and won't remember. 

Thank heavens it wasnt around Christmas time ;) 

Bryan picked up a grocery store pumpkin on clearance after Halloween and we let Eli paint to his hearts content. 

He loved wearing my shirt and thought he was a monster!

My Buddy

Eli's been my buddy the last week we've been in the house. We don't know many people yet so we've been playing together. We go to the park, play with cars and trucks and trains, and make lots of treats! 

This takes on a new Meaning of lick the bowl clean!

Nursery

Eli is just now getting the hang of nursery being fun. He still says "mom stay" the second we suggest nursery, so I sit with the other moms and let the kids play. 

So a few mornings ago Eli wanted to play nursery with his animals. He lined them up to have a song then they took a nap. He said "sleep tight" to each one then "wake up!!" And gave them a huge 'squeeze your eyeballs out' style hug!