Hunting for a tree

It has been a year since I've posted anything on this dang blog! There will be no apologies from me because I do this for me. Now lets talk trees....

We decided to go to the same farm as last year. It is so nice! They have free cider, cocoa, candy canes, pictures with Santa, and they put your tree on your car for you. This year was neat because it was the first time Pres was able to "help" with getting a tree.

Between the two girls and Daddy I didn't have to do much.

So I was able to enjoy the show...



And just like that we found our perfect tree!

Best of all the girls ACTUALLY talked to Santa and we were able to get a picture with him! We have been trying to do this for two years now but Alexis always freaks out so this is a big deal for us.

Flash Back Friday

This is a picture of the girls last Christmas Eve. They were so small!

A Diamond Just Past Mile Post 17?

We received a post card advertisement in the mail for a Christmas tree farm that looked too good to be true a couple of weeks ago. Since it was only a few miles from home we decided to give it a shot. So right after mile post 17 on hwy 22 there it was, the cutest, nicest Christmas tree farm we could imagine! It was so organized. They had laminated maps of the farm, tree trailers, free cookies, cider, hot chocolate, cute crafts to buy, and they even surprised us by tying our tree on our car while we were warming up. We have now found where we plan on going for years to come!!!YEAH!
Alexis really enjoyed the farm and finding little trees



Then we found our tree!

Presley has started to Walk!!!!!!!!!!

Here is a clip of Presley taking some of her first fearless steps. Watch out world here comes Presley! FYI this video isn't the greatest.

Presley turned 1

Boy time is flying by! Presley turned one on November 19th. We had a party at Walery's pizza. The color scheme was lime green and pink. I decided to make the cupcakes and her personal cake. I had originally planned on getting a free cake from Roth's but apparently they no longer give a free cake for first birthdays and charge $5.99! So brave me made her one and I was quite proud of myself, not to toot my own horn or anything. We were joined by lots of wonderful friends and family. She was spoiled by everyone. Thank you!

Our Halloween Weekend

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

Our Halloween actually started on Thursday with Alexis dressing up and trick r treating at playschool. All of the little kids dressed up and went from classroom to classroom. Then on Friday evening I at the last minute decided to take them trick r treating downtown Stayton. It wasn't raining or dark which made it much easier on everyone. Alexis dressed up as tinker bell and Presley was a polar bear. The whole event only took about 30 minutes. A lot of businesses had already ran out of candy when we got there at 5pm so if we go again I will get there at 4pm when it starts.
On Halloween I luckily started to feel better and we kicked the evening off at a Halloween party at Brady and Chelsea's house. We always have such a great time at their parties and I really lucked out with a soup buffet! After that we met up with the Olheiser clan for some door to door treating. The kids were a lot of fun this year other then having to pee all the time. Good thing there was some not well light spots! Our holiday ended with the largest Jack-O-lantern we have ever seen. Thank you Grandpa!

Happy Halloween!

I'm hoping I feel better by tonight to go trick 'r' treating with the kiddos. I'm so tried of feeling terrible. Luckily my very nice father in law stopped by and took Alexis for the morning. So I'm crossing my fingers that I will feel better!