I was sooo excited!! This year I am going to get into the Christmas spirit!!! We put three trees in our house. One on the plant shelf (fake), on upstairs in the loft (fake) and a real one downstairs in the living room!!! It was all going so well... until I started to remember why I don't put up a real tree. The stupid thing will not stay up straight. I am pretty sure it will end up falling over before the big day arrives. I am happy every night when I walk in the door and it smells like pine thougth. McKayla loves it.

We had a funny conversation about "real tree". One day she asked me, how would we get real tree? I told her we would get a saw, go out in the woods and cut one down. She said "no really mom... I am not joking". I told her I wasn't joking either. She was sure "they" would not allow us to do that. Then she commented, the tree would fall over. I said yes it would then we would drag it to the truck and load it up. She was getting slightly irrated with my comments and proceeded to say "no it would fall over in the house". (she was so right) I told we would put it in a stand and all would be good (I was so wrong). She then got excited about the prospect of going out and cutting one down. Well, we went to the grocery store parking lot to "cut" our tree. I had plans to do it right... but sometimes things don't work out as planned. Maybe next year we will do out and get one.

There was a constant line to hold baby Braxton!! He is such a sweet boy! It was really nice to get to spend the holiday with Grandma, Grandpa, Aunt Kristine, Uncle Clayton, Uncle Kevin and (almost Aunt) Courtney. The only thing that would have made it better would have been if Aunt Katie her family would have been there!!

Thursday was sunny and warm. Thursday night it started snowing and we woke up to a white morning. It was pretty fun. Good thing there was a firing going in the arena to keep us a little warmer.

McKayla on Kid... the horse Aunt Kristine rode all through high school. He is a good horse and McKayla enjoys riding him. Grandma Donna roped off of him that day.

McKayla sitting on the fence in the arena. She had a blast watching everyone rope. She likes to hang out with the horses and all that stuff. There was little boy there that was seven and participated in the roping. It inspired McKayla to want to learn how to be "real" cowgirl. She did have a close encounter with a steer that was not so much fun. A steer got loose and came pretty close to her. She was up on the fence, but it did come pretty close. I was up in the timing booth watching... thinking someome grab her. Jeff grabbed her and pulled her off the fence and out of the way. I am sure she would not have gotten hurt, just scared.