A Visit with Santa

We visited Santa yesterday. We have found a place that is never busy (there was one person in front of us in line) and the picture with Santa is free. Can't beat that, especially when you don't know how an almost two year old will react to Santa. Dave brought him to Santa and I was in charge of the camera this year. Owen did not cry at all. He just sat there and looked at Santa. By the end he was smiling and liked the fact that Santa gave him a candy cane.

Tree Cutting

It was that time of year again. When we travel up to the mountains to cut down our Christmas tree. Owen is now in the transition period of that he is old enough to walk, but slowly and clumsily in the mountain terrain and he is too heavy to carry, but it goes much faster. So, we went back and forth on walking and carrying. We did end up visiting two sites to look for a tree. The first one was too rocky and didn't have the ideal Christmas trees. So we got in the car and traveled back toward the entrance a bit and tried again. We were able to get a great tree, it is tall and skinny. Perfect for our house.



Owen thought that it was pretty neat that a tree was in our house. He wanted to touch it a lot, so we're going to have to watch him. We decorated the tree Sunday evening and Owen "helped" by trying to take off ornaments.