Christmas Time

For Christmas my parents gave our family a new trampoline. Peter and I braved the Black Friday sales at Walmart to save about $80 on it. Yippee! I love a bargain! We set it up that day and all of us had fun on it. Peter and I like that it is bigger becasue we feel we can jump with the kids more safely. Arabella even took a turn on it and seemed to like it.

Oh the fun to be had!

Another promise made and kept. Joey was rather disappointed that I only put up a few Halloween decorations. Then he saw people starting to put up Christmas decorations he wanted to but we were moving and I said no but promised that our first family home evening we would get a tree. That is just what we did on Monday night. We did not get home in time to get lights on and decorate the tree but it was up and smelled wonderful!
Tuesday night we decorated. Arabella loved all of the little balls and the ones that made noise were her favorite (jingle bells). It was a fun evening for all.

I decided not to worry too much about what my tree looks like with young kids around because they will be redecorating it daily- at least as high as they can reach.

A picure of some of Joey's ornament hanging skills-photo by the artist himself.

Jon was so very proud of his spot. He also took this picture. Arabella has already done some adjusting to these sparkling beauties. She would place the balls and bells on the tree and of course they would just roll of but she was so pleased with her work.

Peter trying to get the star to stay up straight.

It rained off and on all day yesterday and then all during the night. This morning it turned to snow. It stopped by 9:00am. There was a thicker layer than this but it was all metled by 11:30. Jon did venture out for a few minutes but came back in saying the wind was way to chilly and it was making him shake.