November

Here is my catch up.
We went to OMSI for the first time as a family. Got to get our money's worth out of our pass :) The kids love it, and we could go again and again.

We had a "snow day" where they actually cancelled school for less than an inch of snow. So we spent an hour getting snow clothes on, 20 minutes playing in it, then an hour cleaning up snow clothes :) The kids got bored, and wanted snow like at the "faraway" Grandma's house. It was actually really cold that day.




There's only so many snow angels you can do in this amount of snow.



This is our very first year that we will be spending Christmas Eve and doing Christmas morning at our own house. We decided that this would be the perfect year to get our first real tree. So off to one of the many tree farms in Oregon we went.
They had an economy lot with some already cut, so we decided to check it out first to see if there was anything good.
Wondering if this could be the one?

Or maybe this one?
The chosen one!

Poor tree didn't even last 2 days in our house. And not enough time to get decorated and picutres. Our carpet couldn't stand any more water being spilled from being tipped over by Cooper! I was done trying to stand the stupid thing up, and when the stand finally broke, we decided maybe this wasn't such a perfect year for a real tree and the fake one went up the next day. Now I won't say that the fake one hasn't tipped over a time or two, but now water isn't spilled and I can actually tip it back up myself. And we have a partially decorated fake tree for Christmas this year. :)