The hunt for the perfect Christmas tree

So last weekend my parents invited us to "beat the snow" and go cut down a Christmas tree. It was a brilliant idea so we said yes. So we headed to a high elevation in the Cascade mountains where we knew we could find the coveted noble fir. We usually go to this spot every year in the snow but this year we were early and to our dismay we found ourselves walking through the thickest tallest brush ever. We found "the tree" about 1/2 of a mile away from the road. I didn't want to walk back through the crazy brush so I took heather and samantha on a 2 mile hike through... yep crazy thick brush (and I fell off a 10 ft. cliff with the tree in hand) and 2 hours later we made it back to the car guided by the sound of my family calling for us. Next year we will wait for the snow.

Halloween

On Halloween our good friends Gary and Courtney Christenson did a little photo shoot for us at Shevlin park. It was super fun and they took some amazing pictures. Afterwords they came over for pizza and Canasta (card game) and we handed out candy to little lady bugs and fairy and teenagers dressed in togas. It only took 45 minutes for us to run out of our candy (3 bags) so then we had to start passing out cigarettes. Here are some of the photos.