Happy Thanksgiving and Lets Go Get a Tree

On Thanksgiving morning we went to an old Presbyterian Church where they do a program called the Blessing of the Hounds. It has been a tradition dating back to mideval french times where they would bless their hounds before going out on their fox hunt. They have been celebrating it every year since the 1920's here in Charlottesville. We heard it was the place to go on Thanksgiving day, hence, we went! It was very interesting! The picture of our family was taken in front of the church.

This is when they were in the middle of blessing their hounds and they literally went on a fox hunt afterwards, across from the church into some fields. Isn't the church pretty?

Since all my children are deathly afraid of dogs, their favorite place to hang out was by the hot chocolate and donuts. Ooh that was yummy! I'm all about hot chocolate and donuts!

We had Thanksgiving at our lovely friends, the Borgs home! It was great fun with a lot of good food, a great game of BINGO, and gingerbread house making (out of graham crackers). haha We had a great time! Thank you Borgs! Below are the lovely finished products of each child

Yeah! Its Christmas time! Time to decorate the tree! Here is Nathan putting his first ornament on. Since this time, he has managed to take a lot of the ornaments off the tree and has repeatedly pulled the ribbon off! Little stinker! But oh how we love him!

Ashley and Heidi putting their ornaments on. They always love decorating the tree and decorating for christmas! They love it so much that they put their own tree up in their room! Its really cute!

Its great to have a tall husband, but even greater when they can hold you on their shoulders! Macho Macho Man!! How else would we get the star on the top of the tree!

We also have our very own Darth Vader. I so want him to like the good guys! haha! He wore this one night for a long time and kept trying to scare the girls. It was hilarious! Thank you Allison and Clay and Dallin for the evil attire. hahaha! He loves it! And Brooke likes to chew on it!

Brooke and I at Ralph's tree farm. The place that we go every year in Virginia to cut trees for Christmas! The trees are so beautiful and they smell so good!

Kevin and all the kids at the tree farm! Don't they all look so cute!

Look how strong my great husband is! Carrying it all on his own! What a man!

So everyone had to take a crack at it! This is Nathan trying saw into the tree!

Now its Ashley's turn! I think she just liked to do it for the picture!haha

Then Heidi taking a crack at it! Needless to say, Kevin was the only one who could actually cut it down.

Just some fun pictures of the kids while at the tree farm! It was great! We always love doing it!