Saturday, February 5, 2011 – December is always such a busy month. It seems like things take off after Thanksgiving and don’t stop until New Years day. There’s so much preparation that goes into Christmas. It feels like there’s never enough time to shop, we get all the decorations up in the house and the yard and before we know it, it’s all over. Despite things moving so fast, I think it was a great Christmas!

We cut down our own, live Christmas tree every year. So we typically don’t put it up too early so it doesn’t have time to die on us. We head over to High Star Christmas tree farm with Butch and Wendy’s family to ride the train, maybe see Santa, take lots of pictures of the cousins, and of course, cut down our tree. This year it was cold so it felt a lot like Christmas.

This was baby Kelsy’s first trip to the farm.

Brooke picked out the winning tree this year. It really lasted until well after Christmas, still smelled and looked good and DIDN’T DIE ON US!

The sun was setting so it was in a weird place when I was trying to take pictures after we cut the tree down.

So one of my projects to get done this year was to start putting the kids handprints on the Christmas tree skirt so that in the future I will have a skirt FULL of their little handprints that grow as they grow. Finally accomplished that. The kids enjoyed getting paint on their hands and I enjoyed checking it off my to-do list. I wrote their names and ages below each handprint and wrote the year above them all and will continue to do this every year until the skirt full. SO EXCITING!!

Hunter’s first grade class had their “holiday” party. It only runs 1/2 an hour and not much goes on. But I tried to take a few pictures. And if anyone tells Hunter’s teacher I posted a picture of her here, she will surely have me killed. Even though I think she looks great (she’s almost 9 months pregnant)!

I didn’t make it to Brooke and Stone’s Christmas party due to my school schedule, but Mike went and got to enjoy time with the kids. Brooke gave us this sweet note and made this awesome ornament that proceeded to get broken that afternoon. Luckily I got pictures of it before the catastrophe and I’ve posted them below.

Christmas always means a LOT of pictures. I always take too many. And there’s no way I’m going to post them all. But we did have a special guest in our house this year. Grandma Cuso (Mike’s mom) made the trip up from Florida to see the family and stayed with us for a week. So I tried to take a lot of pictures of her with the grandkids. Also, my brother and his family (that we only see at Christmas time) came down the day after Christmas. So I have a few pictures of him with the kids too.

Here are a few random pictures from the month of December and a few more from the Christmas holidays…

I’ve known these women probably the longest of anyone in my life. We went to elementary school together and recently hooked up for dinner, thanks to Facebook. From left to right Sharon, Melanie and Cindy.

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